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President Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani floated a new line of defense Wednesday regarding payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal in the final stretches of the 2016 presidential campaign.
In an unsolicited text to The Hill on Wednesday afternoon, Giuliani argued that those payments would not violate campaign finance laws "even if a purpose was to aid the campaign."
Such payments would be defensible, he argued, so long as "there is a strong personal component to a payment - like protecting your wife, children and family from scandal."
The payments, facilitated by Michael Cohen, the president's former personal attorney, were intended to keep the women from going public with allegations they had affairs with Trump a decade previously. Trump denies the affairs.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/giuliani-makes-new-defense-of-stormy-daniels-karen-mcdougal-payments/ar-BBRbPQF?li=BBnb7Kz
Do you have any sense of shame Giuliani? Well you let Trump motorboat you so I guess not.
MiniMe
(21,676 posts)Glamrock
(11,780 posts)He has lost his mind. Regardless of the purpose, they still committed bank and tax fraud paying off these women. Why no one has brought this up with him is beyond me.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Fucking around on your wife with a porn star 5 days after she gave birth to your son has a very scandalous personal component to it. If you want to run for office you should keep your dick in your pants
Takket
(21,421 posts)it is like having our own personal saboteur inside his war room
C_U_L8R
(44,889 posts)Stop lying and shifting the blame.
These idiots seem allergic to the truth.
Jarqui
(10,110 posts)Rudy is lying again.
If part of the reason for the payment was to protect the campaign, then that payment is a campaign expense and the money that contributed to paying it is a campaign contribution.
In the case where Trump says they never paid the National Enquirer, then it is effectively a campaign a contribution made by the National Enquirer that was never reported (and would have other campaign finance issues associated with it)
unblock
(51,973 posts)spanone
(135,627 posts)bitterross
(4,066 posts)I don't watch FOX so I don't know if they act like he's credible.
Every other network and news outlet pretty much laughs at anything he says now days.