"If you were watching Fox News when the Michael Cohen sentence came down, you would be pretty sure this was bad news for Donald Trump’s former fixer. Less clear was what it meant for the president himself.
For clarity on that, you would have had to wait a couple of hours until anchor Shepard Smith invited the reliably frank Judge Andrew Napolitano on his afternoon news hour to explain just how bad the day’s news was for Trump.
“We’ve learned that federal prosecutors here in New York City, not Bob Mueller and his team in Washington, D.C., career prosecutors here in New York City, have evidence that the president of the United States committed a felony by ordering and paying Michael Cohen to break the law,” the judicial analyst said. “How do we know that? They told that to a federal judge.”
“Under the rules, they can’t tell that to a federal judge unless they actually have that hardcore evidence,” he continued. “Under the rules, they can’t tell that to a federal judge unless they intend to do something with that evidence.”
Now those same federal prosecutors have entered into an agreement with AMI, the National Enquirer’s parent company, “which ties a bow on all of this,” Napolitano added, “which connects the dots between the payments to the two women who claim they had intimate relationships with the president, and the line running through all of that is the president himself.”
“Prosecutors have told us through these filings that they have evidence that the president committed a felony?” Smith asked his guest.
“The felony is paying Michael Cohen to commit a felony,” Napolitano concluded. “It’s pretty basic.”"
Judge Neopolitano better be careful or he might doom his run for the presidency before it even starts.
Ian Russell
Well if it destroys the cult of Trump, it'll be worth it.
Lincoln Taylor
MAGApede NPCs will never stop holding hands and singing Blumpf’s praises.
Sebastian Cooper
I thnk they should only start trumps 8 years as president once all the investigations are over. That way he will get a decent shot to lead unimpeded by nonsense.
Asher Bell
I agree. He’s got it much harder than wartime presidents. People say mean things about him nonstop and it ain’t right.
Juan Martinez
The investigations are just micro agressions against Trump. They are erasing his experiences as a person of (orange) colour.
Evan Cox
Hilldogg is manspreading in her Mao pantsuit from behind the CNN proxy.
Samuel Brown
Eeww,,, yuck!
Anthony Nguyen
I heard Napolitano and Trump are going to have a hair contest next week.
Elijah Wright
Nah, their going total destruction low IQ Ocasio in 2020.
I heard him say he was going to reset to day 1 once the investigations are over to get a fresh start.
Luke Thompson
They’d better find one with a better face. I bet her 11s are even starting to show. m.youtube .com/watch?v=q-m1APdLna8
Adam Mitchell
Holy shit, it's incredible how fucking brazenly this guy lies and remains unchallenged by the lapdogs at Fox. Cohen didn't break the law by paying women for a non-disclosure agreement. There is nothing illegal about a non-disclosure, whether a person is running for office, looking for a job, etc. Cohen pled guilty to something that literally is not a crime for the sake of allowing the prosecutors to score political talking points. Cohen is going to jail for tax fraud, not for "influencing" the election via being a bag boy for non-disclosures. They didn't even use campaign funds, which maybe could constitute an issue. He used personal money to help with his personal image - this is standard business practice. It's like saying Trump broke the law by buying a nice car - with his personal money - to make him look more wealthy, with the intent to influence people's opinion of him during the election. Fucking retard.
lmao "rules". They can't sign off on evidence for a FISA warrant unless they've personally validated all of it, but they admit they didn't validate anything in their FISA to spy on Trump's team. They have 100% of the evidence they need to prove paid for non-disclosures, but there is zero evidence any of it was illegal.
Julian Robinson
all that's left now is stalin-esque cult of personality
Evan Stewart
careful, you're gonna get a bunch of npcs calling you an npc terrible
Matthew Thompson
>evidence hinges entirely on a (((media))) corporation
Fuck Trump for his zionism but that's weak as fuck.
Austin Taylor
The issue is an illegal campaign contribution in the form of payments to quiet Stormy and the Playboy chick. This is the same thing John Edwards went to trial for.
Angel Roberts
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Dylan Davis
"On June 3, 2011, Edwards was indicted by a federal grand jury in North Carolina on six felony charges, including four counts of collecting illegal campaign contributions, one count of conspiracy, and one count of making false statements.[121]
After postponing the start of the trial while Edwards was treated for a heart condition in February 2012, Judge Catherine Eagles of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina scheduled jury selection to begin on April 12, 2012.[122] Edwards's trial began on April 23, 2012, as he faced up to 30 years in prison and a $1.5 million fine.[123]
In a related development, on March 13, 2012, the Federal Election Commission ruled that Edwards' campaign must repay $2.1 million in matching federal funds. Edwards' lawyers claimed the money was used, and that the campaign did not receive all the funds to which it was entitled, but the commission rejected the arguments.[124]
Twelve jurors and four alternates were seated, and opening arguments began April 23, 2012.[125] Closing arguments took place May 17, and the case went to the jury the next day.[126]
On May 31, 2012, Edwards was found not guilty on Count 3, illegal use of campaign funding (contributions from Rachel "Bunny" Mellon), while mistrials were declared on all other counts against him.[2] On June 13, 2012, the Justice Department announced that it dropped the charges and would not attempt to retry Edwards.[3]"
Wat? The Clinton's have been proved to have been doing that for over a decade. inb4 BUMPFTARD CAN'T ACCEPT I1 No. This is fine, hopefully Trump gets impeached. I'm just curious why the insane double standard?
accused not proven. Come on, if the Clinton's had this going on they would have gone down.
Nicholas Hall
this is what demos actually believe
Jason Anderson
Are you joking or just a kike?
Dominic Sullivan
They impeached Clinton after he lied about Monica. Yet you think if they had more they wouldnt have hung him? Oh wait even when republicans control all branches of government they are still victims?>>713512
The cuckservatives must smell a change in the wind.
He is literally reagan 2.0 He'll be canonized as a cuckservative saint.
Our justice system is a fucking joke run by a class of corrupt bureaucrats, with every passing day ZOG loses more and more legitimacy.
Colton Clark
Pretty much this. Mueller would have to prove that Trump would not have had the money to pay her off and that the money came from campaign contributors. In a campaign where Trump put millions of his own money in, this is impossible to prove. This is all a deflection because the Russia boogeyman is over.
Angel Torres
Yeah, like Trump.
Brody Brooks
Wanna see the GOP do the same to the next Dem president. Let me have a taste of their own medicine. Just hoping the zio jews in the GOP like neocons band together to impede the next Dem pres's agenda.
Asher Gray
Looking more like a one term presidency for Trump. This former resthard Trump voter will not vote for him again if no wall and he continues the non stop Israel ass kissing which even neocon jews in the USA give him no credit for and want him out of office. Trump needs to stick a middle finger to neocon jews at sometime in his pres term. He has nothing to lose anymore.
Luis Brooks
No John Edwards used campaign funds. Iirc he wrote her checks out of campaign accounts as well. He was a millionaire and too cheap to use his own money to pay his bimbo off.
Liam Brooks
Ivanka is just really dumb and small brained. Maybe the adoration Trump places on her is more to do with the fact he pities her lack of intellingence.
Josiah Jenkins
having a trump tower in moscow = bad hillery/obama selling uranium to the russians = good
the reality of it all is the entire damn system = shit
Oh I know. Trump's a zionist who sold all his children to Satan. Mind arguing the actual point of my posts? How do the Clinton's get away with much worse for decades?
If NDAs were illegal, Bill Clinton would be under the prison by now
Ryan Hernandez
Incorrect. This is not a campaign issue at all. No campaign funds were used and it was not solely campaign related. If Trump personally pays for a nice haircut so he looks good during a tv interview, is that a campaign contribution? If he buys a nice suit so people think he looks more professional and wealthy, is that a campaign contribution? No. And neither is paying someone to not say bad things about him. He was found not guilty - and he actually used campaign money - so that just proves my point.
Owen Davis
John Edwards was tried for taking more than $2300 from one individual in campaign contributions to finance his primary campaign, which he then diverted to conceal his affair. Since the issue here is whether or not Trump used campaign contributions to pay off Daniels and others, what Edwards went to trial for is irrelevant.
Carter Torres
They're too cucked for it
Levi Jones
I sort of want to step away from the computer and see if I can stop worrying and learn to love the collapse.
There were two: $150,000 was given to former Playboy model Karen McDougal in the summer and early fall of 2016, and $130,000 went to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in late October 2016.
Because Cohen admitted that the payments were intended to protect Trump's election chances, they are deemed to be in-kind contributions to the Trump campaign.
They exceed the donation limits, a violation, and neither was included in campaign finance reports, another violation."
stupid communist who gives a shit about kikes like Trump, fuck off, you're not even Zig Forums you're a loser neolib who unironically thinks Trump is against the jews
Nicholas Ross
So Nappy say's there was a felony committed that can't be proven but yet it exists and that the evidence can't be presented to a judge because none exists so they are going to persecute through The National Inquirer? Wow, that sounds exactly like FAKE NEWS to me and liable.
Now those same federal prosecutors have entered into an agreement with AMI, the National Enquirer’s parent company, “which ties a bow on all of this,” Napolitano added, “which connects the dots between the payments to the two women who claim they had intimate relationships with the president, and the line running through all of that is the president himself.”<
Nappy is just as ridiculously stupid as those communists over on Zig Forums. Public persecution through the media will be tested in the courts just watch. Unfounded facts that could never be legally presented because they do not exist are not prosecutable nor are they persecutable. Ignorant communist tactics at best. Tying a bow on fake news doesn't make it truthful. The only fact presented is how ignorant communists are and thanks to Nappy this case is now closed. The verdict is in.
Landon Cooper
Nixon had to resign, and he didn't even commit a felony or order one committed.
Cohen was charged with violating the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA). The law limits donations by individuals to $2,700 per election.
Why are the hush money payments considered illegal campaign contributions?
Because Cohen admitted that the payments were intended to protect Trump's election chances, they are deemed to be in-kind contributions to the Trump campaign.
They exceed the donation limits, a violation, and neither was included in campaign finance reports, another violation
Why are they considered corporate contributions if Cohen arranged the deals?
Because in at least the case of the McDougal payoff, American Media Inc., the corporate parent of the National Enquirer, provided the money
Most campaign finance violations are handled as civil cases. Why are these criminal charges?
Because Cohen admitted that he violated these laws "knowingly and willfully."
Andrew Hall
Because Cohen admitted that the payments were intended to protect Trump's election chances, they are deemed to be in-kind contributions to the Trump campaign.
Does Cohen have proof that Trump did this to influence the election?
He is married.
McDougal payoff, American Media Inc., the corporate parent of the National Enquirer, provided the money.
This looks bad
David Wilson
Reagan is the one that gave away all manufacturing jobs to chinese, dumbfuck. Your comparison is full retard.