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11:51 4/8/2018
5 Days After Trump Lawyer Paid Adult Film Star $130,000, Trump Org Billed Trump Campaign $129,999.72
https://www.inquisitr.com/4819278/five-days-after-trump-lawyer-paid-adult-film-star-130k-trump-org-billed-trump-campaign-129999-72/
Five days after a lawyer for Donald Trumps lawyer paid $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels allegedly in exchange for her silence about a year-long affair with Trump, the company owned by Donald Trump billed his campaign a series of transactions that added up to exactly $129,999.72 just 28 cents short of the payment made to Daniels.
The anomaly has gone viral online and raised questions about whether Trump s campaign received an illegal campaign contribution related to the alleged payment to Daniels. Trumps longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, has since admitted to making the payment to Daniels, but said it came from his own money and had no connection to Donald Trumps campaign, ABC News reported.
But there are now growing concerns that the payment to Stormy Daniels amounts to an illegal campaign contribution to Donald Trump. The nonpartisan watchdog group Common Cause made a complaint to the Justice Department and the Federal Election Commission claiming that the payment amounted to an in-kind donation to Donald Trumps campaign, but was not reported.
... The finding is far from ironclad proof that Donald Trump was involved in paying off Stormy Daniels. For one, there were other payments made during that same time frame, though it was these exact five payments, all made from Trumps campaign to his Trump-owned properties, that added up to $129,999.72. There is still no clear path of how that money may have been involved with the hush money payout, and Michael Cohen had said publicly that he paid out of his own pocket, with no reimbursement from Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-trump-lying-about-the-hush-money/2018/04/07/acd0e730-39b0-11e8-9c0a-85d477d9a226_story.html
Is Trump lying about the hush money?
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)that Michael "the Fixer" Cohen billed that number to throw off any search for a payoff. After all, they'd be looking for 130,000, right? MAYBE 129,999.99 is they were REALLY clever.
unblock
(52,196 posts)Cohen paid Stormy
Donnie paid Cohen
Campaign paid Donnie
Thanks for connecting the dots, rudy!
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Well, GOOD!! Enjoy! Enjoy the FUCK out of this beautiful spring evening!!
drray23
(7,627 posts)In two weeks. He is doing his best. By the end of the week Trump may be perp walked out of the white house (Yes I know it's not going to happen but I like the visual )
Thekaspervote
(32,755 posts)RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)Trump's tweets
malaise
(268,930 posts)this morning
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210571005