Trump: I did not break campaign finance laws

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Trump on Thursday denied he broke the law when he involved himself in a scheme to pay hush money to two women who alleged to have extramarital affairs with him.

"It was not a campaign contribution, and there were no violations of the campaign finance laws by me. Fake News!" Trump tweeted.

The comments come one day after The New York Times reported Trump signed checks to reimburse his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, while he was serving as president.

Cohen last year pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws in addition to other financial crimes and was sentenced to three years in prison. Cohen implicated Trump in the scheme in court and in congressional testimony.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-i-did-not-break-campaign-finance-laws/ar-BBUugEt

Sure and Mexico's going to pay for the wall.

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1. Trump doesn't know the laws

He also gets confused on the forms and functions of government (e.g., the Department of Justice is not his personal law firm). His declaration of innocence isn't worth the pixels he tweeted out.

[shanny]

4. actually, I'd wager he knows the laws on campaign donations very well.

Remember how proud he is of his ability to buy politicians? According the him, he's made a habit of it.

His denial is just another in a long line of signposts that say, "dig here!" (I did not have an affair, it is not a payoff, my scores and grades are the greatest evah and I'll sue anyone who releases them, investigating my finances is a red line, there's no deal with Russia blah blah blah)

[C_U_L8R]

2. Keep digging, Spanky Smallhands

[MaryMagdaline]

3. Just like last year, when he didn't even know about the payments

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5. how does this guy still have a political career?

never mind anything else, just this one issue would completely derail the career of any democratic politician.

he had an affair and lied about it, and demonstrated that he is willing to pay blackmail in order to keep embarrassing personal secrets secret. this is red flag number one in terms who should even be granted a security clearance, never mind have the keys to the nuclear arsenal.

bill clinton's second term was largely overshadowed because of having an affair and lying about it. the media couldn't get enough of that story. eventually he was impeached over it. he survived, but his second term was nothing like what it might have been otherwise. and that was bill clinton, a very popular and charismatic president. lesser politicians wouldn't stand a chance.

keep in mind, though, that clinton never gave any indication that he was a risk to national security as a result. donnie paid what might as well have been blackmail. that screams that he could equally be coerced into handing over national secrets in order to keep a blackmailer quiet.

and that's not even getting into whether or not laws were violated.


at a minimum, if this were a democrat, there would be virtually non-stop stories about donnie and "bimbo eruptions" and so on.

[fierywoman]

6. Oh. He's "projecting" vomiting again.

[BootinUp]

7. Crook. Nt

[Vinca]

8. Does "Individual 1" ring a bell?