If There’s No Collusion, There’s Always Stormy Daniels By Rich Lowry

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   If There’s No Collusion, There’s Always Stormy Daniels
By Rich Lowry

December 14, 2018 6:30 AM

Indicting Trump on campaign finance charges is a Democratic revenge fantasy.

The most legally fraught part of the Russia probe now revolves around payments to an American porn star.

As of yet, instead of a dastardly scheme to participate with the Russians in the hacking of Democratic emails to subvert the election, prosecutors have uncovered a dastardly scheme to try to keep from the voters — as if they weren’t aware — that Trump is a womanizer.

The advantage of the story of the hush payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal is that they actually happened, and always passed the plausibility test. To credit the payoffs, it didn’t require believing in a well-coordinated scheme between a foreign intelligence service and the most shambolic presidential campaign of the modern era. All it took was imagining Donald Trump, Michael Cohen and a checkbook.

Everyone should agree that the payments were sleazy. But that’s not the live issue. Because Democrats want to see Trump impeached or even jailed, the question is whether he can be successfully prosecuted for the payments after leaving office.

The law, and common sense, suggest the answer is “no.”

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https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/trump-payments-to-mistresses-not-criminal-not-campaign-contributions/

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Okay, let’s review the fact.

The first payment to Daniels was August 2014.  Trump wasn’t a candidate until June 2015.

How in this universe is this an unreported campaign expense?

Review over.

[Frank Cannon]

When this Stormy thing fully collapse Stupid Bobby will be going after Trump for not sorting his recycling. They are running out of shit and everyone knows it.

[skeeter]

Okay, let’s review the fact.

The first payment to Daniels was August 2014.  Trump wasn’t a candidate until June 2015.

How in this universe is this an unreported campaign expense?

Review over.

They'll just smoothly transition from campaign finance violation! to tax fraud! because he accounted for the payment under 'misc expense' instead of under 'hush money'.

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Remember how media figures reveled in the news that Cohen had audio recordings of meetings with Trump. We got him now, they said!

So, in his first television interview, Michael Cohen tells George Stephanopoulos, “the president directed me to [make illegal payoffs]”  And Stephanopoulos sits there nodding in agreement and shock at this detail of lawbreaking by Trump.

That’s all? Cohen has tons of taped conversations with Donald Trump and Clintonopoulos doesn’t ask him if he’s got Trump directing him?

Why not? I’ll tell you why, because none exists or we’d be hearing it right now breaking on CNN.