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Very little impact/ none
Some impact but easily manageable
Major impact/ could threaten 2020/midterms/Presidency
Not sure / other
Thus proving that Zippy doesn't understand campaign finance law.
Any money spent to influence an election has to be reported as a campaign expenditure even if the candidate paid it personally.
If they paid it for any other reason, such as simply to avoid embarrassing Mrs. Trump and all the little Trumpettes, then that's no problem.
This is a fishing expedition, nothing to be proud of.
Last edited by angelatc; 07-21-2018 at 10:11 PM.
Half right. Try this. https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-.../personal-use/
Personal use
Using campaign funds for personal use is prohibited.
Commission regulations provide a test, called the “irrespective test,” to differentiate legitimate campaign and officeholder expenses from personal expenses. Under the “irrespective test,” personal use is any use of funds in a campaign account of a candidate (or former candidate) to fulfill a commitment, obligation or expense of any person that would exist irrespective of the candidate’s campaign or responsibilities as a federal officeholder.
More simply, if the expense would exist even in the absence of the candidacy or even if the officeholder were not in office, then the personal use ban applies.
Conversely, any expense that results from campaign or officeholder activity falls outside the personal use ban.
Relating to other activity
In specific situations the Commission has concluded that campaign funds may be used to pay for up to 50% of legal expenses that do not relate directly to allegations arising from campaign or officeholder activity (for example, activity prior to becoming a candidate or officeholder or activity of a business owned by the candidate/officeholder) if the candidate or officeholder is required to provide substantive responses to the press regarding the allegations of wrongdoing.Exceptions
No contribution will result, however, if the payment would have been made irrespective of the candidacy.
Last edited by Zippyjuan; 07-22-2018 at 02:38 PM.
Is there a difference between having an affair in the White House while you are president and having an affair before you were even elected? If Clinton had not lied about it under oath, would he have still been impeached? Is there any real evidence that Trump's infidelity took place (not that it would surprise me)? Paying someone to shut up and go away doesn't necessarily mean you did it.Originally Posted by Zippyjuan
Last edited by FvS; 07-22-2018 at 12:50 PM.
In other news:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...ohen_tape.htmlAlan Dershowitz vs. Michael Avenatti: Did Trump Himself Leak News Of Cohen Tape?
Tim Hains
July 22, 2018
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, I can flip that around. CNBC is reporting actually that it came from the Trump camp. But let me bring that to you, Dan Abrams. I could imagine the Trump camp would want it out, thinking bad news, get it out early.
DAN ABRAMS, CHIEF LEGAL AFFAIRS ANCHOR, ABC NEWS: Yes, and address it and Giuliani can say it’s exculpatory. But the only way that this is exculpatory is if literally President Trump is on that tape saying $150,000? Why would we want to pay her $150,000? I didn’t have a relationship with her.
...
STEPHANOPOULOS: I want to follow up on this just a little bit, you know there are tapes, do you know what's on the tapes?
AVENATTI: I know the substance of some of the tapes, yes.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And what you have also mentioned, saying that your relationship with Michael Cohen is evolving, what did you mean by that?
AVENATTI: Well, exactly what I said. I mean, I think that I ran into Michael Cohen at a restaurant in New York City on Monday. We had a conversation, I thought it was very fruitful. And we've continued to have a dialogue. And I think that ultimately, George, Michael Cohen is going to assist us in our search for the truth and disclosure of what happened here.
I think you have seen an evolution by Michael Cohen over the last month or so with the retention of Lanny Davis and others, I think he is ready to tell the truth. And ultimately I think he is going to cooperate with us as it relates for our search for the truth.
Hard to disagree with these points, there seems to be a pattern of over-reactions and then reversals over so many Trump MSM news. Perhaps a sign of things to come, US markets dropped 700 points on first news of Trump winning election and then a mega reversal started with new highs.
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I do campaign finance reporting. I am not half right. I am 100% right, because there's as far as I've seen, there's absolutely no allegation that the campaign money was used to pay her. The issue is that the money paid to her (through the National Enquirer, IIRC) should be considered a campaign related expenditure.
What you stated was, and is wrong. They are not looking to see if campaign money was used to pay her. They are looking to see if the expenditure should have been reported as an in-kind campaign expenditure.
....................think this thru..................
Yesterday, CNN aired the “secret tape” made in September 2016 of Donald Trump discussing with his attorney Michael Cohen about buying Karen McDougal's story. Trump's campaign had claimed it knew nothing about any payment to McDougal.
McDougal is a former Playboy model who allegedly had an affair with Trump in 2006, 2007 while Trump was married to Melania.
Cohen tells Trump he plans to set up a company to purchase the rights of the story from American Media who bought it from McDougal for $150,000.
Trump appears to tell Cohen “pay with cash” but notorious liar Rudy Giuliani insists he said “don't pay with cash” and “suggesting otherwise is ridiculous“. Giuliani also claims that the rest of the recording, if it hadn't cut off, would have been ”exculpatory”.
U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff said the tape proves that Trump and Cohen tried to kill the story in the run up to the election so it was ”campaign motivated”.
See some excerpts:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-revealed.htmlTRUMP: [In background] Good. Let me know what's happening, okay? Oh, oh. Maybe because of this it would be better if you didn't go, you know? Maybe because of this. For that one, you know, I think what you should do is get rid of this. Because it's so false what they're saying, it's such bulls**t.
(…)
COHEN: And, I've spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with …
TRUMP: So, what do we got to pay for this? One-fifty?
(…)
TRUMP: Wait a sec, what financing?
COHEN: Well, I'll have to pay him something.
TRUMP: [UNINTELLIGIBLE] pay with cash.
COHEN: No, no, no, no, no. I got it.
TRUMP: Check.
See a picture with McDougal on the far right, Donald in the centre with a smirk on his face with Melania on his left and Ivanka to his right.
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Rudy's claim was still being investigated and confirmed by media.
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I guess you'll immediately say that there is no "evidence"...
But I think that maybe Cohen was sent to prison for 3 years for taping and leaking the conversation with Trump: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...ears-in-prison
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Well all are details out so are based mostly on media reports, so suffice it to say that let's wait till all the facts have come out and confirmed by relaiable sources.
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