"Services rendered". And it WASN"T campaign finance... it was merely settling up old gripes. I realize what it is in reality... but by the book, he did nothing wrong.
This is basically over but The Left will run it out over and over as long as they can. They are bereft of anything positive to run on and so due to their idea bankruptcy must just kneejerk.
So Cohen pled guilty to a non crime..that's the talking point...LMAO Here is some actual analysis from a lawyer “If you believe the theory that the payment was made solely for the purpose of influencing a federal election, then the recipient of the benefit would be the Trump presidential campaign, and therefore they would have received an impermissible excessive contribution,” said Charlie Spies, who served as counsel for Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign. https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...c9042272f07_story.html?utm_term=.9d83b9121d71 That's how its campaign finance and it wasnt an old gripe, the affair was 10 years ago and the pay off was right after the Holllywood access tape came out. To say that Cohen, a lawyer himself would plead guilty to crimes he didnt commit to implicate his own boss whose DOJ oversees the prosecutor is ridiculous. Cohen plead guilty to a crime that is not a crime for making a payment to two porn stars for no reason at all. Oh. Okay. Breaking the law is not illegal I suppose.
If Trump voters do their job in the November 8, 2018 midterm elections, we could have more conservative Republicans who support President Trump in office. That would change the narrative and more could be done to prosecute all those guilty of treason, corruption, human trafficking, and other crimes! President Trump can then, use the full powers of the Presidency to restore law and order to the US! Right now, still too many traitors up to no good creating all sorts of mischief! Time to have them all arrested and charged! It will come!
OK... I'm not a lawyer and neither are you.... but I just did a quick search.... and (I should have been a f'n lawyer) .... look what I found.... I know what you're gonna say... but he basically is saying the same thing I did. This guy is a serious lawyer. I don't care if he is on Fox. _____________________________________________ “I wanna help the law professors, the constitutional experts, the criminal defense lawyers, the former prosecutors, and of course the professors, I wanna help them understand what the law is,” Levin said. “The general counsel for the Clinton mob family, Lanny Davis, he had his client plead to two counts of criminality that don’t exist.” “Just because a prosecutor says that somebody violated a campaign law doesn’t make it so. He’s not the judge; he’s not the jury,” Levin said. “We didn’t adjudicate anything. It never went to court.” Levin explained that a campaign expenditure under U.S. campaign finance law is an expenditure “solely for campaign activity.” He argued that any supposed reimbursement Trump paid to Cohen with his own money after Cohen paid off Stormy Daniels or any other woman who slept with the president is “perfectly legal.” “A candidate who spends his own money, or even corporate money, for an event that occurred not as a result of the campaign — it is not a campaign expenditure,” he said. Levin gave several examples of potential payments Trump could have made, showing that none of them would be illegal. “Nothing here was spent out of the campaign. Nothing was done with the campaign or to the campaign,” Levin said. “Mr. Lanny Davis had his client plead guilty to two offenses that aren’t offenses that the prosecutor insisted were offenses. That’s why he’s no good.” “Donald Trump’s in the clear. Let’s say Donald Trump even directed Michael Cohen to make payments in nondisclosure agreements. So what? He’s allowed to do that.” He concluded by addressing the news media directly. “I want the news media to understand — you know what took place in the southern district of New York? Nothing that matters. Zippo. There was no violation of campaign laws. Lanny Davis blew it.” ------------------- Edit.... here it is on youtube.
So you are gonna quote talk radio wingnuts and that too in stealth? I quoted a real legal expert, you are quoting trolls who would say absolutely anything to protect their cash cow. You must be embarrassed to call this research, this is like quoting a CNBC anchor and calling it a trading strategy. And by the way, no way a prosecutor would let Cohen make a plea without having backup physical evidence given Cohen's reputation.
This is exactly correct. ---and it also shows another point----that Michael Cohen is not a good attorney either. Now, it could be that they did this to avoid other more serious non Trump charges against Cohen but the prosecutors wanted these two counts to look bad for the President. I really don't know however if that would be the case. For now it looks like Cohen and Davis are just idiots. ----which I already knew about Lanny Davis.
Mark Levin is one of the top legal minds in the country along with Alan Dershowitz and Gregg Jarrett. I trust Mark's information above all others.