re: Cohen Didn’t Violate Campaign Finance Laws, and Neither Did Trump

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Jesus He was absolutely convicted and sentenced after pleading guilty to 9 charges, 5 of which were for tax evasion

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Sorry, but no he was not.

con·vict
verb
past tense: convicted; past participle: convicted
/k?n'vikt/
declare (someone) to be guilty of a criminal offense by the verdict of a jury, or the decision of a judge in a court of law.

I couldn’t give less of a frick about campaign finance violations if I tried to. If this is the big gotcha the left has after all these years it’s just pathetic. I’m pretty sure every presidential campaign has violated some somewhere. Obama sure as hell did but you didn’t see anyone threatening him with massive jail time over it. It’s such a joke

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He plead "guilty" to a noncrime

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No, he plead guilty to an actual crime. That's why he's going to be spending 3 years behind bars.

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No, he plead guilty to an actual crime.

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No he pled guilty to many crimes. Meanwhile, to placate rogue prosecutors, Cohen also pled guilty to a noncrime solely designed to implicate the Trump Campaign. That's why he's ONLY going to be spending 3 years behind bars.

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Agreeing to plead guilty to a violation of Campaign Finance laws in order to save your arse from going to jail for 30 years doesn't mean Campaign Finance laws were actually proven to be violated.

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Exactly. The prosecutor dangles it out in front of Cohen on top of he other stuff that had to do mostly with taxes and a bullshite loan fraud charge and then offers him a deal of a lesser sentence and a sentencing recommendation but all of this is contingent on pleading guilty to a campaign finance violation or else the deal is off the table and then Cohen takes his chances with da judge. They had him cold on the non related stuff.

Was Cohen an official member of the Trump campaign because I don't see his name listed? I do see him as a Vice President of the Trump Organization. As such he has specific duties in that capacity. If he pas off Stormy with his own funds and is reimbursed by the Trump Organization through funds from the Trump Organization, AND he has a history of presenting NDA's on behalf of his boss then I'm not seeing it .

While going around presenting NDA's to paramours may be a bit sleazy, it's hardly against the law. How they twisted this into an in kind campaign contribution is very suspect

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Sorry, but no he was not.

con·vict
verb
past tense: convicted; past participle: convicted
/k?n'vikt/
declare (someone) to be guilty of a criminal offense by the verdict of a jury, or the decision of a judge in a court of law.

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Don't be an idiot. The judge took his plea, convicted him, and sentenced him.

Jesus

Cohen Didn’t Violate Campaign Finance Laws, and Neither Did Trump--
Considering you have no idea the evidence Mueller has, it's stupid and very GOP'y of you to make that claim. Cohen's attorney's knew he was screwed and that's why he pled...

But you Trumpkins keep defending your anti-American, Russia owned puppet. It suits your traitors well.

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How can Cohen or anyone else involved in these payments be charged with a “knowing and willful” violation of the law by facilitating these payments when numerous campaign finance lawyers, federal election commissioners, and the Federal Election Commission itself have all publicly opined that such payments do not violate the law in the first place?

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I don't know anything about campaign finance law, but I do know criminal law and I think the author slipped up there. In criminal law, the "knowing and willful" elements of a crime apply to the underlying acts, not whether the actor knew that the actions were illegal. (i.e., "ignorance of the law is no excuse"). The question should be whether Trump knowingly and willfully directed payments be made to these women in order to benefit his presidential campaign regardless of whether he knew such an action would violate the campaign laws.

That said, its still not clear whether it violates the campaign laws, and if it ever came before a judge the unclear nature of the law would be considered in both the trial phase and the sentencing.

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For violating campaign finance laws?

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Among other things

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I missed that, can you link it?

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For you, this once

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Cohen pleaded guilty to the charges in August, which included five for tax evasion and one count each of excessive campaign contribution, unlawful corporate contribution and false statements to a bank. 

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