Trump-Stormy Daniels settlement at heart of potential NY DA indictment didn't violate

[ThatOwlWoman]

It looks like the defense “I did it for Melania” may not work, because Stormy was trying to get money from Trump earlier for her silence and he wouldn’t pay until it became an issue for the election.

He would have been a lot better off to just admit that he boinked her and "So what?" The MAGATs wouldn't have cared. Look at all of them just here who cheered him on. Trump's too used to dirty dealings to be that honest.

[ExpressLane]

Hate to break this to you, but the NY case is not about Trump fucking porn stars. It is about the payola to keep them quiet so they didn't mention it during his campaign for POTUS. Nice try on deflection though.

Here, get someone to read this to you:

The New York hush-money probe of Donald Trump explained

And the former FEC official says that isn't illegal and remember that the FEC did not fine or bring a case against Trump for that.

Get your caretaker to read you this

"The alleged one-night stand between Daniels and Trump is far more of a stretch," wrote von Spakovsky. "Daniels had no connection to the presidential campaign of any kind and the encounter — if it occurred — didn't happen during the campaign itself. In any event, even if the Daniels payment were to be considered a campaign-related expense, unlike Edwards, the nominal $130,000 payment wasn't made by Trump campaign donors but by Trump's personal attorney (not the campaign's attorney) with whom he has a long-standing business relationship. . . . Even if one might be able to reasonably construe the payment to Daniels as somehow related to the presidential campaign, there still would be no violation since candidates are allowed to spend as much of their own money as they want on their own campaigns."

[Cypress]

You loved the guy that was getting blow jobs from a White House aide that was over 20 years younger than him and that he supervised. Trump's indiscretion was YEARS before he was in the White House.

A tepid attempt at establishing a valid analogy.

Trump's craven amoral sleaze goes way beyond multiple divorces, multiple affairs, or banging porn stars.

Trump is a vile human being who is self absorbed, selfish, narcissistic, malicious, money-obessesed, vindictive,
petty, utterly without empathy or compassion, and constantly insulting racial minorities, handicapped people, women who are overweight or don't meet his standards of attractiveness.

[Earl]

Trump, Trump, Trump!

[christiefan915]

Trump paid the 130 with a personal checks not campaign funds.

Cohen said Donald Trump himself, while president, signed a $35,000 checks while he was president to repay him for "hush money I paid on his behalf," Cohen told a House of Representatives committee./QUOTE]

Trump will win this case and THAT will help him win the White House.

Are you deliberately misunderstanding what I said? Cohen created a fake consultancy firm and a new bank account to fudge the money issue. trump could have written a check without going through all this rigmarole. Cohen was a patsy until he finally wised up.

2016

Oct. 17: Cohen files paperwork to incorporate a firm known as Essential Consultants LLC in Delaware.
Oct. 25: No deal with Daniels has been finalized, and Davidson tells Cohen, Howard and Pecker that his client is close to reaching an agreement with another outlet to tell her story. Cohen agrees to finalize the deal.
Oct. 26: Cohen opens a bank account for Essential Consultants and transfers $131,000 he obtained by taking out a home equity line of credit into the new account.
Oct. 27: Cohen wires $130,000 to Davidson, Daniels' attorney.

2017

January: Cohen seeks reimbursement from the Trump Organization for $180,035 — $130,000 for the payment to Daniels, plus a wiring fee and an extra $50,000. Trump Organization executives double the reimbursement to $360,000 and add another $60,000, for a total of $420,000 to be paid in monthly installments for 12 months.
Cohen sends invoices for $35,000 per month and receives $420,000 from the company over the course of the year.
Jan. 20: Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.

[Guno צְבִי]

Trump, Trump, Trump!

Rube Rube Rube

[christiefan915]

The New York hush-money probe of Donald Trump explained

Yep. "O, what a tangled web we weave...."

[christiefan915]

And the former FEC official says that isn't illegal and remember that the FEC did not fine or bring a case against Trump for that.

Get your caretaker to read you this

Why did Cohen have to set up a shell company and a new bank account to pay off Daniels, if nothing was illegal?

[ExpressLane]

He would have been a lot better off to just admit that he boinked her and "So what?" The MAGATs wouldn't have cared. Look at all of them just here who cheered him on. Trump's too used to dirty dealings to be that honest.

He didn't want Melania to know about it. When a payment has a dual purpose it is OK

[ExpressLane]

Why did Cohen have to set up a shell company and a new bank account to pay off Daniels, if nothing was illegal?

Trump didn't want his wife to know about it. Gee isn't that odd? <sarcasm>

[ExpressLane]

Yep. "O, what a tangled web we weave...."

Not illegal though.

[ExpressLane]

Rube Rube Rube

Fake Jew Abraham wasn't Black

[christiefan915]

Trump didn't want his wife to know about it. Gee isn't that odd? <sarcasm>

According to her personal assistant, Stephanie Grisham, Melania already knew.

Surely even you have to acknowledge how far-fetched trump's defense is. He's a public servant, not a rock star.

[ExpressLane]

Are you deliberately misunderstanding what I said? Cohen created a fake consultancy firm and a new bank account to fudge the money issue. trump could have written a check without going through all this rigmarole. Cohen was a patsy until he finally wised up.

2016

Oct. 17: Cohen files paperwork to incorporate a firm known as Essential Consultants LLC in Delaware.
Oct. 25: No deal with Daniels has been finalized, and Davidson tells Cohen, Howard and Pecker that his client is close to reaching an agreement with another outlet to tell her story. Cohen agrees to finalize the deal.
Oct. 26: Cohen opens a bank account for Essential Consultants and transfers $131,000 he obtained by taking out a home equity line of credit into the new account.
Oct. 27: Cohen wires $130,000 to Davidson, Daniels' attorney.

2017

January: Cohen seeks reimbursement from the Trump Organization for $180,035 — $130,000 for the payment to Daniels, plus a wiring fee and an extra $50,000. Trump Organization executives double the reimbursement to $360,000 and add another $60,000, for a total of $420,000 to be paid in monthly installments for 12 months.
Cohen sends invoices for $35,000 per month and receives $420,000 from the company over the course of the year.
Jan. 20: Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.

Sooooo?

[Guno צְבִי]

Fake Jew Abraham wasn't Black

Poor whitey T Goyim, Abraham wasn't a pasty face