PeterS

At a minimum Trump is going to be hit with two felony counts for directing Cohen to pay for his whore's silence--something that was a direct benefit for his campaign. So can we have some cheers of "lock him up, lock him up" from the peanut gallery?

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-federal-crime-michael-cohen-1250466?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=NewsweekFacebookSF&fbclid=IwAR11ub1_auJTdfeCVwmfnbw1o_tSaMKd1EsLGWXF0dFu3ImgnNFCLw-x2eQ

ederal prosecutors have concluded that President Donald Trump participated in federal crimes when he directed his former personal attorney Michael Cohen to commit campaign finance violations by paying off two women during his 2016 campaign.

The conclusion was drawn by federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York, who on Friday filed a sentencing memo suggesting that Cohen serve a “substantial” prison sentence of 51 to 63 months. While they found Trump to be complicit in Cohen's crimes, no formal charge has been rendered against the president.

Trump, identified as “Individual 1” in the memo, is mentioned several times by prosecutors as leading the criminal conspiracy to pay off Stormy Daniels and Karen McDuggal to keep their alleged extramarital affairs with the president a secret.

“During the campaign, Cohen played a central role in two similar schemes to purchase the rights to stories - each from women who claimed to have had an affair with Individual 1 - so as to suppress the stories and thereby prevent them from influencing the e******n,” prosecutors wrote.

“In particular, and as Cohen himself has now admitted, with respect to both payments, he acted in coordination with and at the direction of Individual 1,” they added. The assertion marks the first time that federal prosecutors have deemed Trump an active participant in the conspiracy.

Former federal prosecutor Renato Mar**tti shared his analysis on Twitter shortly after the sentencing memo was released.

“Just to be crystal clear, prosecutors drew the conclusion and made the assertion that Trump directed the campaign finance crime Cohen committed, but they did not "charge" Trump. A formal charge has not been made,” Mar**tti wrote.

Renato Mar**tti
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Just to be crystal clear, prosecutors drew the conclusion and made the assertion that Trump directed the campaign finance crime Cohen committed, but they did not "charge" Trump. A formal charge has not been made.

Laurence Tribe
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WOW: The Dec 7 filing in SDNY on Michael Cohen’s sentencing charges that President Trump (aka “Individual 1”) directed a criminal conspiracy with his attorney Cohen to violate the federal e******n laws in order to increase his odds of winning the presidency by deceiving v**ers.


Laurence Tribe, a professor of Constitutional law at Harvard Law School, shared Mar**tti’s assessment, also writing that the court filing clearly states that Trump was leading a “criminal conspiracy” with Cohen.

“WOW: The Dec 7 filing in SDNY on Michael Cohen’s sentencing charges that President Trump (aka “Individual 1”) directed a criminal conspiracy with his attorney Cohen to violate the federal e******n laws in order to increase his odds of winning the presidency by deceiving v**ers,” Tribe wrote.

Cohen first dropped the bombshell that he had been directed by Trump to commit campaign finance violations in August during a plea agreement with the Southern District of New York. At the time, Cohen confessed to several federal crimes including bank fraud, tax evasion and campaign finance violations.

After his first guilty plea, Cohen also confessed to lying to Congress about a Trump Tower project in Moscow, though these charges were brought on by special counsel Robert Mueller. After pleading guilty, Cohen agreed to cooperate with Mueller’s probe into Russian e******n meddling and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Your Golden boy lied to Congress...Why do you think he is telling the t***h now,when in reality he is trying to save his sorry ass???...I wouldnt believe anything that's coming out of his asshole....

Sicilianthing

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I dont care, just build my Fking Wall and begin Mass Deportations or else !

Kevyn

The trumpet dumpty wall is nothing but a wet dream for r****ts now.

Sicilianthing

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Has nothing to do with race and you know it!

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

And how do we know that President Trump didnt use his money to pay off these two women????

Sicilianthing

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Are you sure about this ?

PeterS

So what race do you want to keep out?

PeterS

Absolutely. Keeping his secret was for the benefit of the Trump campaign. Anything that benefits the campaign is considered a contribution which would explain why Trump lied to keep it hush, hush...

Sicilianthing

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It’s about Anti American
Anti Christian
Anti freedom
Anti rights
counter culture ideologically non compatible Islam for starters...

Sicilianthing

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Idk Peter anything is possible yes I can see this... but I’m trying to have hope.

I do smell trouble brewing though.

PeterS

The vast majority of the people coming over our southern border are more devout Christians than any you will find here. As for Islam, they can come over our Northern border just as easy as our Southern border so perhaps you need to build a wall all around our country...

Sicilianthing

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I could careless they are Christian, that’s just lather and blather

Most of them are ignorant
Will never assimilate
Will never get a better education
Will never contribut anything of historical value
Are criminals
Rapists
Murderers
Gang bangers
Traffickers
Thieves
P*******es
Drug dealers
Violent psychopaths
Scumbags
Diseased
Sick n twisted losers with no real direction
Looking for a free ride
Will never pay taxes
Black market
Gray market
Scoundrel plotters
Schemers and worse...

No Deal so i don’t care and they are no longer welcome here... it’s fking over...

The Muslims will get whats coming to them soon enough, believe me when I type this here Peter, the Muslims days are numbered in America ...

One way or the hard way they’re leaving dead or alive makes no difference to me.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Wow, I'm trying to recall how many times you jumped on me for copying and pasting a source.

At least when I choose something to post here, I take the time to first research the veracity of it, do some homework, so to speak, to see if it is credible information. If things look good, I spend time editing it before I past it here. Formatting an article to make it legible is a courtesy to readers. That is if you are serious about making a point.

That said, this article is the product of the political hacks at a liberal rag, Newsweek. Whodathunkit?

There are some major problems with the Newsweek report.

First, one must consider that the Southern District Court of New York is extremely hostile to president Trump, so it is no surprise the SDNY prosecutors would say "fk the law, lets get this guy no matter what."

Secondly, according to campaign finance disclosures, at the outset Trump invested $66 million of his own money to launch and finance his campaign. He used his own assets, including his private jet and his Manhattan building that served as his campaign headquarters. In June, 2016, he sold his entire stock portfolio worth $40 million.

According to the Federal E******n Commission disclosure, in total, Trump raised $339 million and spent $322 million – a far cry from the $565 million spent by Clinton, and he spent $94 million in the final days of the campaign, compared with the $132 million spent by Clinton.

Trump's affair with Stormy Daniels occurred in 2006. In 2011, well before he was a p**********l candidate, the gossip site, In Touch, claimed that Trump and Daniels had had a fling. In Touch had a long interview with Daniels that year, so why didn't they publish the story? Stormy Daniels was certain Trump would lose the e******n, so she figured her story would be worthless.

Oops!

Ten years after she signed the agreement, T***p w*n the e******n and Daniels saw the only opportunity left to make a buck and slander Trump, so she came out with her story. When she signed the NDA in 2006, she believed her porn career would be ruined if she refused. Cohen paid Daniels the $130,000 fee out of his law firm's account and Trump reimbursed him out his own private funds, not the campaign finance war chest.

Daniels hired the sleaze shyster, Avenatti, or he hired her, no one knows for sure how that went down, being that she is a porn star, possibly he accepted her case pro boner. They filed a defamation lawsuit against Trump. Get that, a babe that sells sex and a corrupt lawyer trying to defame a duly elected US president. There's a joke in there somewhere, the punch line is that a federal judge tossed her case and ordered her to pay Trump's legal fees. Might be the first time in history that a whore had to pay back her client.

As reported in the New Yorker, Trump's alleged affair with Karen McDougall began in late 2006 and ended in 2007, nine months later. No NDA was signed and no money changed hands. This allegation of campaign finance violations is a non-starter.


Footnote: Non-disclosure agreements are used every day for many reasons, such as when you have a new employee and you want to protect company client lists, manufacturing processes or other confidential information, or

You have an idea and you need to share this on a secure basis with potential investors, licensees, manufacturers, or PR/marketing companies, or

You are selling a business. Confidential and valuable information must be disclosed as part of the process. Until the deal is completed, you need to make sure the information is secure, or

You have created an original art work and you want to control the distribution of the same more closely or with variations to the protections provided by the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.

IOW, NDAs are not illegal unless an actual crime has been committed and the defendant is proven guilty in court.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Can you back up your claim that the "vast majority" of Christians crossing our border ILLEGALLY are more devout than "any you will find here"? If they are such devout Christians, why are they violating the laws of a sovereign nation? Why are they showing no respect for their neighbors, not to mention loving them?

If they are true Christians, their first duty is to their own families, neighbors, fellow citizens and their country itself. The Bible tells us to put our own house in order before we go screwing around with someone else's. IOW, if you don't have your s**t together when you waltz into someone else's house without permission, you are not only committing a crime, you are dumping your s**t in someone else's lap.