Report: Trump played central role in hush payoffs to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal

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  1. Spooky

    Spooky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That was my point.

    I have yet to see anything that was illegal about it in the news.

    A lot of whining sure but nothing illegal so what have you got?

    The only possible thing here that may even approach illegality is using campaign funds to pay for it which there is zero proof of.

    That money is watched extremely closely and all of it is accounted for.

    Its impossible to rip off 130,000 from your campaign and not have it noticed and plus Trump is a billionaire so why would he do that?

    He may have had his lawyer front the money but that's not illegal either.

    Its not illegal to pay someone not to say something that isn't criminally related in some way.

    Its a contract.

    So I ask again, what do you have that was illegal about it?
     
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    If he’d reported it then you’d be correct. Yet he didn’t. He deliberately avoided reporting it.
     
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    The intentional lack of reporting.
     
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    The Mello Guy Well-Known Member

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    The law is what trumps lawyer says it is.
     
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    Spooky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It didn't aid his campaign, at least that is not something you can ever prove as the motivation.

    Not telling his wife was probably the reason why.
     
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    The Mello Guy Well-Known Member

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    1. The limits aren’t the problem, it’s the conspiracy to hide the payments and not reporting them.
     
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    Who does he need to report this to?

    It had nothing to do with his campaign, it was a personal matter.

    He paid off a hooker not to inform his wife.

    End of story.
     
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    Why did his campaign pay him rent on property he owns?
    Because it was benefiting the campaign to use those facilities so it became a campaign expenditure. Just like paying off hoes.
     
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    What did the hoes have to do with his campaign?

    Nothing.

    And how do you know the campaign paid them off?

    I haven't heard that yet.
     
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    Nothing because he used hush money to hide it.
    It doesn’t matter where the money came from. Again, why did his campaign pay him rent?
     
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    Well, step off the Fox site once in a while. I found that info all over the place. Don't know what else to tell you.
     
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    If the Wall Street journal reporting is correct... trump conspired with both packer and Cohen as well as trump Corp executives to suppress sexual allegations. An explicit part of the conspiracy was structuring the arrangement so that the payments were not made by trump himself.... the payments would be fronted by pecker and cohen with the explicit promise to reimburse those payments. To the extent that trump himself conspired to violate campaign laws, he is himself culpable


    In any case, you neglected to address the issue that trump explicitly conspired to deceive voters.... which, one would think most people would object to regardless of its legality
     
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    Do you have a link that doesn't contain the word "alleged" in it?
     
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    No he didn't.
     
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    Spooky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No part of that is illegal you know.

    What campaign laws are you thinking he violated?
     
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    ORANGE MAN BAD.

    the same programmed cohort of scheming scumbags who trotted out a parade of filthy leftist skanks
    in a desperate, last-ditch effort to torpedo Kavanaugh's confirmation still think they have credibility.

    that's fcking precious.
     
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    He conspired to hide his personal expenses?

    Sure. Good luck with that.
     
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    If you get emotional enough maybe you can warp reality.
     
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    Why did the campaign pay him to rent his property?
    If you can figure that out you’ll understand
     
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    diggin up dirt from decades before he ever considered being a politician... geeze.

    i wonder how 'lily white, squeaky clean' every one else's past is... lets dig up dirt on all 327 million of us & keep it in a data base 'just in case' they might want to run for office... yikes.
     
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    Good luck slamming into the windmill.
     
  23. The Mello Guy

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    Another righty who refuses to use a bit of deductive reasoning. Hardly surprising.
    Why did trump declare all the money he donated to the campaign? He can spend as much as he wants to can’t he?
     
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    He conspired with Cohen to hide Cohen making payments on his behalf... and can you guess how we know that??

    That's right... Cohen...
     
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    You mean like Clinton’s draft avoidance?
     

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