12-14-2018, 08:46 PM
The law doesn't change based on what the media, pundits, Trump worshippers, posters, or anyone else opines.
Accepting or making campaign contributions which exceed the established $$ limit and/or without filing and reporting them is an illegal campaign finance violation. If the campaign accepts over $25,000 in illegal campaign contributions, it's a felony campaign finance violation.
Cohen admits that he arranged hush money (far in excess of $25,000) to be paid to silence women for the express purpose of helping Trump's election chances and knew it was illegal. Thus, he committed felony campaign finance violations, for which he'll serve time.
Pecker admits that he was part of that arrangement for the same express purpose and also knew it was illegal (which is why he didn't want any record of reimbursement to exist). He is cooperating with the NY prosecutors in exchange for a non-prosecution agreement.
Cohen and Pecker admit that Trump was part of the arrangement, which the three of them devised in August 2015. Trump is no longer insisting that he had no idea about any of it because evidence refutes that false narrative. His new narrative is that (a) maybe it wasn't a crime anyway, and (b) even if it was a crime, he was ignorant to that fact.
That's the law and the facts-to-date.
Accepting or making campaign contributions which exceed the established $$ limit and/or without filing and reporting them is an illegal campaign finance violation. If the campaign accepts over $25,000 in illegal campaign contributions, it's a felony campaign finance violation.
Cohen admits that he arranged hush money (far in excess of $25,000) to be paid to silence women for the express purpose of helping Trump's election chances and knew it was illegal. Thus, he committed felony campaign finance violations, for which he'll serve time.
Pecker admits that he was part of that arrangement for the same express purpose and also knew it was illegal (which is why he didn't want any record of reimbursement to exist). He is cooperating with the NY prosecutors in exchange for a non-prosecution agreement.
Cohen and Pecker admit that Trump was part of the arrangement, which the three of them devised in August 2015. Trump is no longer insisting that he had no idea about any of it because evidence refutes that false narrative. His new narrative is that (a) maybe it wasn't a crime anyway, and (b) even if it was a crime, he was ignorant to that fact.
That's the law and the facts-to-date.