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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrumpI never directed Michael Cohen to break the law. He was a lawyer and he is supposed to know the law. It is called advice of counsel, and a lawyer has great liability if a mistake is made. That is why they get paid. Despite that many campaign finance lawyers have strongly......
8:17 AM - 13 Dec 2018
....stated that I did nothing wrong with respect to campaign finance laws, if they even apply, because this was not campaign finance. Cohen was guilty on many charges unrelated to me, but he plead to two campaign charges which were not criminal and of which he probably was not...
8:25 AM - 13 Dec 2018
8:39 AM - 13 Dec 2018 (Trump replaced this tweet w/edited one)
Johnny2X2X
(19,193 posts)Trump saying Cohen is doing 3 years in prison just to embarrass Trump. LOL. OK dude.
You said you knew nothing about any of this. Liar!
ProfessorGAC
(65,248 posts)"I didn't know about any of this, except for the parts i knew about but so what if i did, because it was all legal and people all tell me it is ok and no laws were broken even though i heard the same sort of advice from the guy who is now going to jail and is just a big lying meanie and blah, blah, blah, blah..."
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)asking if any of these campaign finance lawyers that told him it was all legal were not in the employ of Fox News, its affiliates or other RW media sources.
ProfessorGAC
(65,248 posts)Maeve
(42,297 posts)Cutting your nose off to spite your face level...
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)Bottomless Pinocchio is a category the Washington Post created for repeating false statements.
Trumps the only recipient of this Pinocchio award so far.
bigtree
(86,008 posts)malaise
(269,219 posts)What a liar
bigtree
(86,008 posts)...a reliable tell.
Perfect
Whiskeytide
(4,463 posts)... and take some depositions.
Botany
(70,614 posts)" ... but he plead to two campaign charges which were not criminal ..."
Donny Trump is one of the great legal minds of our times.
blugbox
(951 posts)And also to embarrass tRump!! Amazing!
Botany
(70,614 posts)And I forgot the embarrass the president statute too.
oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)sack of crap. Just a complete idiot cockwomble, weaselheaded fucknugget to quote our Scottish friends.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)agingdem
(7,865 posts)whomever wrote these pathetic tweets does not understand the lawyer/client thingy...a lawyer takes direction from his/her client...and a good lawyer advises his client on the legalities/illegalities as to what the client is requesting...a good lawyer does not become complicit in breaking the law for his client and if the client insists on breaking the law the a good lawyer, as an officer of the court, is duty bound to hand his now former client his file and escort him out the door...the Trump/Cohen bromance was solidified the instant Cohen became a willing participant in Trump's filth and he was rewarded handsomely for it... remember Trump only picks the best people
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)Cohen, a lawyer, plead guilty to campaign finance crimes
Lanny Davis, Cohen's lawyer
Guy Petrillo & Amy Lester of Petrillo Klein & Boxer (Cohen's defense lawyers)
Geoffry S Berman, Nicholas Roos, Tom McKay, Rachel Maimin & Andrea Griswold of
United State Attorney and Assistant Attorneys for the Southern District of New York
Judge William Pauley
Two Members of the FBI involved with this case
Jeannie Rhee and three other lawyers from the Special Counsel's office
Thirteen lawyers, a Federal judge plus two members of the FBI (ignoring all the lawyers looking this over) ... all thought Cohen pleading guilty to campaign finance crimes was legitimate based upon the evidence and submissions provided to the court.
Even FOX's Judge Napolitano agreed with it.
But Trump is trying to tell everyone it was a scam ...
PJMcK
(22,056 posts)Trump or reality?
Now's the time to choose!
(wink)
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)Jarqui
(10,130 posts)They could have made a vague entry for campaign finance in Sept for McDougal's $150,000 August payment.
They could have made a vague entry for campaign finance in Nov for Stormy's $130,000 October payment.
and added legal fees for it.
It would be months after the election, if ever, that the media found out.
And I think that would all be legal.
Am I missing something?
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)There are laws about what you can spend on and how much you have to pay for it. What's the going rate for a one night stand?
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)Cohen and AMI have admitted it was an expenditure and here's the reasoning of why it is problematic
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/12/national-enquirer-trump-payments-david-pecker-catch-and-kill
American Media Inc (AMI) told prosecutors it worked in concert with Trumps campaign when it bought Karen McDougals story of a sexual affair with Trump, which it suppressed to prevent it from influencing the election.
...
US law bars corporations from spending money to influence elections in coordination with a candidate or campaign. Prosecutors said that AMIs payment to McDougal amounted to a secret in-kind contribution to Trumps campaign.
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But Wednesdays agreement struck in September but kept secret until now means that federal prosecutors in New York now have testimony from two witnesses, Cohen and AMI, that the Trump payments were made to women in a deliberate attempt to influence the 2016 election.
13 lawyers and a judge seemed to agree that Cohen committed a crime here.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)Had Trump paid for it directly out of campaign funds, I think it would have been an illegal expenditure. So either way, it's illegal.
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)jcgoldie
(11,655 posts)1.) I didn't know anything about this.
2.) If I did, then it was his fault because he's supposed to advise me its against the law.
3.) It wasn't anything illegal anyway.
...He left out 4.) squirrel!
agingdem
(7,865 posts)5.) my lawyer was ignorant of the law
6.) my lawyer was so grateful to be in my orbit he broke the law for me
7.) my lawyer did exactly what I told him to do and he had a recording to prove it...so there!
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Is that like when 2nd base gets along with 1st base and 3rd base?
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Takket
(21,644 posts)And hes going to the hole for three years just because he wanted to embarrass the president lol
blugbox
(951 posts)In order to embarrass their boss? How else are you supposed to embarrass your boss?
just in case lol
RockRaven
(15,035 posts)comes to mind when I see him tweet like this.
Please proceed, Dotard.
dae
(3,396 posts)no he doesnt have a first.
Surprised he didn't used "pledded".
ScratchCat
(2,002 posts)is relegated to claiming his lawyer plead guilty to fake crimes to embarrass him, you know the Presidency is over.