re: Prosecutors Say Trump Directed Illegal Payments During Campaign

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He had Cohen use campaign $s to pay whores.

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I thought he used his own money.

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He did, but there are individual limits to campaign contributions ($2700/person) and this was >40x that. It occurred in the weeks before the election and Cohen has testified that the payoff was meant to influence the outcome of an election thus it's hard to argue that it's not campaign spending. He also testified that he did it in coordination and at the direction of Individual-1. Individual-1 is an un-indicted co-conspirator at this point.

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He did, but there are individual limits to campaign contributions ($2700/person) and this was >40x that. It occurred in the weeks before the election and Cohen has testified that the payoff was meant to influence the outcome of an election thus it's hard to argue that it's not campaign spending.

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the campaign finance statute specifically identifies items that would have existed outside the campaign are NOT campaign expenditures, thus Trump paying someone to stfu and go away, known in legal circles as a nuisance payment, is not a fricking campaign finance violation.

Has Trump ever made such payments outside the campaign, why yes he has.

Thanks, go away.

What in the fricking seven hells does a lawyer claiming to have made payments to a couple of ho's have to do with Russia?

The idiots in the MSM have completely lost it.

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this is now a banned expression, beating dead horses and breaking camels' backs is insensitive toward and cruelty to Animals! 

You monster!!!

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As completely stupid and pointless PETA's argument was in that whole ordeal, I must admit their replacement phrases were surprisingly decent.

"Grab the flower by the thorns" instead of grabbing a bull by the horns

"Stop feeding a fed horse" instead of beating a dead horse

They'll never replace the originals, but I'll totally use them tongue-in-cheek.

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Why would he use campaign funds? He's not a poor like Obama was.

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It's pretty well known that obama's ex-lovers died in a hail of machine gun bullets in Chicago before the 2008 election. Someone was looking out for bath house barry.

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What in the fricking seven hells does a lawyer claiming to have made payments to a couple of ho's have to do with Russia?

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The MSM has known from day one that Trump didn't collude with the Russians on anything having to do with the election. They have willingly promoted the fake narrative to protect the Obama administration and Hillary's clear ties to Russia and the uranium one deal.

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Got him now

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Poster badly in need of new material

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I thought he used his own money.

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Draggin this is what I keep trying to figure out. He spent millions on his own campaign, so he paid with his own money.

Even if he did pay with campaign funds, its a minor violation, at most a fine....but then its Trump so....

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I have been typing and deleting trying to come up with a response to this but just can’t. What a bunch of idiots. Who cares who Trump fricked before he was President? It’s not against the law. It’s frowned upon if he cheated on his wife but not against the law. Trump deals with people all the time who are filing lawsuits so he settles out of court to make them go away. That’s all this is. A go away payment. Scram go away.

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Much like no one much cared about Monica and Billy Jeff. It wasn’t the hummer, it was the lying under oath.

No one much cares that Trump was farking porn performers. The campaign finance violations, however, are a different matter.

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Stop feeding a fed horse" instead of beating a dead horse

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if the fricking horse is dead you can't very well fricking feed can you?

and every flower doesn't have fricking thorns but every bull will gouge your arse with his fricking horns...