Paying off one's bitches to avoid political disclosure is an in-kind campaign violation. You may believe otherwise, but the justice department already charged Cohen as such and have left Trump an unindicted co-conspirator to date because the DOJ has a policy about not indicting a guy who can simply pardon himself. The law is remarkably clear on this point.
Make no mistake, Trump will get a chance to testify to his thinking on this point, because he will either be impeached over it or indicted the day he leaves office, particularly if it is in 2020.
Originally Posted by tannana
Hahaha.... you are delusional. Look, if you want to make political hay out of trumpy banging a porn star, be my guest. But spare me this crapola about how it is a campaign law violation to pay to keep a secret, secret. As I said, Cohen provided evidence it was done to protect Trump's marriage. Even if it was partly to avoid "political disclosure" and therefore might be considered an "in-kind campaign" contribution (if one stretches and tortures the definition) - what's the violation? There is no limit on how much a candidate can contribute to his own campaign. Did someone forgot to list the payment on a form somewhere? Well, fuck me sideways! I forgot to tie one of my shoes this morning! Are you going to indict me for that?
What irritates me most about desperate trump-hating ideologues like yourself is the way you keep driving our politics deeper and deeper into the sewer. You deter good, talented people from entering public service. Everyone has something in their past they don't want the world to know. People like you would make it illegal for anyone to try to keep their skeletons buried. You want to empower all those "opposition research" miscreants who run around looking for dirt on the other side.
Come to think of it, did Hillary Clinton list all of the money she spent for the Steele dossier on the proper campaign finance reporting forms? Were those payments concealed as "legal services"? Is Mueller investigating that? Why not?
How much campaign money did Hillary pay NBC and ABC to release the Access Hollywood video 3 weeks before Election Day? Was that properly reported on her campaign finance forms? Inquiring minds want to know! Is anyone investigating?
Btw, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz agrees with me. We need to stop criminalizing political differences.
