12-14-2018, 08:47 PM
This is my opinion -- since campaign finance violations require that the offender intentionally/knowingly broke the law, option (b) is Trump's best defense should he ever be charged. He would need to pray that Cohen doesn't have taped conversations indicating that Trump knew full well the arrangement was illegal.
I think option (a) would fall apart quickly because the payoffs for indiscretions happened a decade after-the-fact and just before the election, plus the two other parties involved in the payoffs swore under oath that the sole purpose was to benefit Trump's election chances.
I think option (a) would fall apart quickly because the payoffs for indiscretions happened a decade after-the-fact and just before the election, plus the two other parties involved in the payoffs swore under oath that the sole purpose was to benefit Trump's election chances.