Checks Mate!

[kentuck]

Like he has done many times, why didn't Donald Trump just blow off the payments to Michael Cohen?

Oh, they say, "He just did not want his wife to find out..." And that is all the rationale that they need.

But, "hush payments" is just another term for bribery pay-offs. It is a crime to pay-off someone to keep them from making information public. Especially when it is done in the last few weeks of an election.

That would be a campaign finance violation. Usually it is just a fine, which does not match the seriousness of the crime.

But it was not just your everyday-type of campaign contribution... It may have determined who won the election? That may never be proven, but many people believe that to be the case.

Michael Cohen has done a lot of damage to the Trump Empire.

Just today, he brought an edited version of his original comments before the Senate Committee. Trump's lawyer(s) have denied that it happened. A typical he/said, he/said type of charge. Unless there is more evidence?

It was significant that the checks, some at $35,000 and some at $70,000 dollars, were all written after the election of November 2016. These checks were paid while Trump is the President. By doing so, would it be an obstruction of justice that, in effect, was meant to keep information from the Investigation?

Somewhere in there is also a conspiracy. Some people conspired to pay off these women. They decided to create an LLC account. They decided to pay Michael Cohen back in monthly installments, so he could create a track that would be very difficult to follow.

Some have little doubt but that these affairs, with an adult film star and a Playboy bunny, would have caused a lot of damage in the upcoming election, if the word was to get out. So they paid them off.

And somewhere else amongst those "checks", there is also probably suborning perjury?

Cohen had admitted that he lied about when the negotiations stopped on the Trump Moscow Tower?
Some wonder if it has ever stopped?

It's difficult to keep up with all the crimes.

[wishstar]

1. He made good on the debt only after January reminder visit from Cohen-

He failed to make any repayments for 3 months until Cohen visited him in the WH after which he paid him a double check in February and then monthly on schedule. The fact that he initially was slow to repay and then paid much more than the amount owed for the $130,000 Stormy payoff (Total of $420000.) when Cohen provided no legal services in 2017 suggests that payments were as much hush money to keep Cohen in line as they were just to repay Cohen. No question that Weiselberg and Jr. were involved in the scheme to misrepresent the nature of the payments.

[kentuck]

2. Yep!

Birds of a feather flock together.