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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRand Paul defends Trump by questioning whether financial crimes actually count as crimes.
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-december-9-2018-n945771You know, I think what's interesting about this is people forget history. The Federal Elections Commission actually ruled on this with John Edwards. They actually came up with a ruling and said that, "You know what? The paying of his mistress was not a -- was not a campaign finance violation." But I think it's bigger than this. And I think we have to decide in our society if -- there are thousands and thousands of rules. It's incredibly complicated, campaign finance. We have to decide whether or not really criminal penalties are the way we should approach criminal finance. I personally think that if someone makes an error in filing paperwork or in not categorizing a campaign contribution correctly, it shouldn't be jail time. It ought to be a fine. And so it's just like a lot of other things that we've done in Washington. We've over criminalized campaign finance.
Oopsie-doodle.
Don't you hate it when you are all innocently structuring the payoff of your mistress through a shell corporation to make her shut up in time for your electoral campaign, and then all of a sudden people start pointing fingers at you?
Or when the US has sanctions that say "Don't do business with Russia" but you really, really want to do business with Russia?
Or when you are all innocently selling US real-estate to the shell-corporation of a foreigner, for triple the price, for cash, and without a contract that documents who actually bought that real-estate and where the money came from?
dameatball
(7,395 posts)dem4decades
(11,269 posts)dameatball
(7,395 posts)Crimes are crimes, financial or otherwise. Rand Paul's reasoning makes no sense and to me indicates a motive. What that motive is I do not know..
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Regular interviews as well as Op-eds.
dem4decades
(11,269 posts)About the old man's foundation i believe.
Will Mueller investigate Russian money or is that out of his area of investigation?
dsc
(52,152 posts)yes he got 1 acquittal and the rest of the charges hung but he was indeed prosecuted and the man who prosecuted him is still in Congress having just won his latest race.
RKP5637
(67,088 posts)dalton99a
(81,404 posts)benld74
(9,901 posts)Can be considered to be a Senator
Because the word is in front of his name
bluestarone
(16,872 posts)Looking for a pardon!!!!!!!!!!!
LuckyLib
(6,817 posts)Stealing from American taxpayers should be exempt!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,261 posts)Ha!
Shuffle those shell companies in a global 3 card monte scam.
JDC
(10,117 posts)TheFarseer
(9,317 posts)A bank should be able to bury a clause in a thousand pages of disclaimer that they can just take the money in your savings account for any reason and the only recourse you would have is to write a bad online review. If they get enough bad reviews, theyll be out of business. Thats capitalism! Dont be surprised. Libertarians basically dont believe in laws.