Alleged payment to porn star was illegal donation to Trump campaign, watchdog says

[TheCount]

Seriously, nobody cares about this junk.

Except Trump?

 

[TheCount]

 

[Raginfridus]

Confirmed alt

 

[H_H]

Except Trump?

Yes. I mean, I guess he would care. But no one else on planet Earth does. At all.

Booooring.

 

[dannno]

How's the Russia investigation going?

 

[TheCount]

How's the Russia investigation going?

Better than the wall, the swamp draining, the Obamacare replacement, and the Syria withdrawal.

 

[jmdrake]

How's the Russia investigation going?

History has repeated itself. Ken Starr = Robert Muller. Monica Lewinsky = Stormy Daniels. Whitewater = Russia investigation.

 

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How's the Russia investigation going?

There was a merger and it seems to have turned into Hussia investigation (Or Hushia ?).
Seems similar switch like GOP basers/Moral Right had turned Monica-Clinton affair into Obstrution of Justice investigation/impeachment.


In other news, POTUS says Giuliani is a great guy but Kimmel has a different take:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA-fY2dr9jc

REPORTER: Mr. President, how’s Rudy doing?

REPORTER: When did you find out?

TRUMP: I tell you what — Rudy is a great guy, but he just started a day ago. But he really has his heart into it. He’s working hard. He’s learning the subject matter. And he’s going to be issuing a statement too. But he is a great guy. He knows it’s a witch hunt. That’s what he knows. He’s seen a lot of them. And he said he’s never seen anything so horrible.
As an example, 33,000 emails requested by Congress with a subpoena, and they get burned, they get deleted. And nobody says anything. Give me a break.

So Rudy knows it’s a witch hunt. He started yesterday. He’ll get his facts straight. He’s a great guy. But what he does is he feels it’s a very bad thing for our country, and he happens to be right.

REPORTER: When did you find out what the retainer was being spent on?
TRUMP: Well, you’re going to find out, because we’re going to give a full list. And people know. And virtually everything said has been said incorrectly, and it’s been said wrong, or it’s been covered wrong by the press — just like NBC and ABC yesterday covered the story wrong.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/u...y-daniels.html

Giuliani says Trump doesn't have to comply with a Mueller subpoena and could invoke the Fifth Amendment
Washington Post 2h ago



Giuliani: It is possible Michael Cohen paid off other women for Trump

by Mark Berman May 6
When asked during an interview on ABC News’s “This Week” whether Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal attorney, had made payments to other women, Giuliani said he did not know of any but acknowledged that this could have happened.

“I have no knowledge of that,” Giuliani said. “But I would think if it was necessary, yes.”

Did Michael Cohen make payments to other women on behalf of the president? Rudy Giuliani tells @GStephanopoulos: “I have no knowledge of that, but I would think if it was necessary, yes." https://t.co/LYBy2d6vA3 pic.twitter.com/ESMcGETxx4

— ABC News (@ABC) May 6, 2018


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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-michael-cohen-paid-off-other-women-for-trump

 

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[dannno]

There was a merger and it seems to have turned into Hussia investigation (Or Hushia ?).

LOL

 

[Danke]

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[Swordsmyth]

Stormy Daniels’ lawyer just made an admission that actually helps President Trump’s legal case, according to scholars.
During an interview with ABC, Stormy’s lawyer Michael Avenatti said the president “had effectively an extramarital affair slush fund that was administered by [Trump’s lawyer] Michael Cohen,” which legal experts say is actually evidence that the payment to Stormy wasn’t related to Trump’s presidential campaign.

AVENATTI: “It’s important to think about what we just heard. According to Giuliani, this was commonplace. The president had effectively an extramarital affair slush fund that was administered by Michael Cohen & then he would just take care of it… they were a regular occurrence” pic.twitter.com/Z6yHzxi90X
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 6, 2018
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A celebrity’s slush fund set up by his lawyer to handle what he considers “nuisance payments” is fairly routine – and it would explain why President Trump would know about payments but not necessarily the details of such payments.
And remember, Trump was a celebrity before he ever considered entering the political arena, and the affair Stormy claimed she had with Trump occurred in 2006.
“Giuliani has consistently painted the picture of Cohen as a fixer, who would make such payments out of a retainer fund so as not to burden his very busy clients with such trifles,” reported Law & Crime.
Payments made to others would effectively downplay the significance of the payment made to Stormy, legal experts suggest, because those would reveal a pattern by Cohen to pay out what he considered “nuisances” though a slush fund – and thus the payment to Stormy wasn’t politically motivated, regardless of the timing.
Earlier this month President Trump admitted the funds used to pay Stormy came out of a retainer to Cohen, which suggests the existence of a slush fund – and if the slush fund existed before Trump announced his presidential run, that would bolster Trump’s case even more.

More at: https://www.infowars.com/stormys-lawyer-helping-trumps-case-say-legal-experts/

 

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Had not expected this story to become so big.

Trump due to file public financial disclosure amid questions of whether he will mention hush money deal for Stormy Daniels

• President Donald Trump and thousands of other federal executive branch workers are due to file public financial disclosure forms Tuesday.
• Trump's filing last year apparently did not disclose a debt to his longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
• Cohen had paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about an alleged affair with Trump.

Kevin Breuninger | Dan Mangan
Published 2 Hours Ago Updated 1 Hour

Thousands of federal executive branch employees are set to file public financial disclosure forms Tuesday — among them President Donald Trump.

The annually filed documents, which reveal the financial interests of federal workers, provide a rare window into the finances of Trump, who otherwise has notoriously eschewed traditions of transparency established by his recent predecessors in the White House.
This year's financial disclosure filing by Trump — which is not yet publicly available — could be especially significant.
The president is scheduled to file his form on the heels of a revelation from one of his lawyers, Rudy Giuliani, that Trump had repaid his personal attorney, Michael Cohen $130,000 last year.

That reimbursement was for a hush-money payment that Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels in late 2016 in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump. The White House has denied any such affair.