Trump repaying the Stormy Daniels money doesn't mean there were no campaign finance violations

[TomCADem]

It is the lie of the day from the Trump team with the next round of spin now that it seems that prosecutors have Cohen dead to rights.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-repaying-the-stormy-daniels-money-doesn%E2%80%99t-mean-there-were-no-campaign-finance-violations/ar-AAwFdqZ

It didn’t take former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani long to make his mark after joining President Trump’s legal team. Unfortunately, the mark Giuliani left was on his client.

During an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Wednesday, Giuliani volunteered a startling bit of information. That $130,000 that Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen admitted having paid to porn star Stormy Daniels? Trump had repaid it.

“That money was not campaign money, sorry. I’m giving you a fact now that you don’t know,” Giuliani said to Hannity, raising the subject on his own. “It’s not campaign money. No campaign finance violation.”

It’s not entirely clear what Giuliani is claiming happened. Over the course of the interview, he told Hannity that Trump repaid Cohen through a monthly $35,000 retainer over a series of months “when he was doing no work for the president,” an amount that Giuliani said included “a little profit and a little margin for paying taxes for Michael.” Later, he speculated that the money might have been paid out of “law firm funds.” Regardless, Giuliani said, it didn’t matter for legal purposes.

[Cha]

1. KICK!

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2. Add to all of this, other threads have noted payments of very close to $130,000

From the campaign to the trump organization.

Back to square one of those payments are related to the stormy payoff

[duforsure]

3. Rudy is projecting it didn't

But the facts may show the opposite, and there were numerous violations , again showing Rudy is as big a liar as trump is.

[beachbum bob]

4. a payoff is a payoff especially preceeding an election as its considered "in kind" service

structured payments...... Cohen payment to Stormy Daniels was reimbursed by Trump, through a bank, in installments. That is structuring. That is bank fraud. That is a felony. That is what put former Speaker Hastert in jail.

Guliani has more or less admitted that trump has lied, Cohen has lied.....The question will also be where did the $130,000 come from...

[Demsrule86]

5. No doubt it was campaign money.