re: Our President tweets about Muh Cohen!

It would have been extremely difficult to have proven that Cohen had the intent to violate FECA and therefore next to impossible to prove that Trump, relying on counsel's advice, to have known that such conduct would have violated FECA:

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The FECA specifically gives the Commission the authority to interpret the features of the FECA....The role of the Department of Justice in matters arising under the FECA is confined to prosecuting violations of the Act's provisions that are committed "knowingly and willfully." ....For such a criminal violation to occur, the application of the law to the facts of a matter must at the very least be clear, and there must be no doubt that the Commission considers that the underlying conduct presents a FECA offense.

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In other words, unless there is clear precedent from the FEC that in which certain acts have been deemed to be violations of the campaign finance laws, one cannot knowingly and willfully violate the campaign finance rules.

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