It is now becoming quite clear that for the last few years a double standard has existed regarding how the FBI and the Department of Justice handle Obama/Clinton campaign finance violations versus how they treat alleged violations by President Trump.
Of the eight criminal charges Cohen pleaded guilty to, two of them are alleged campaign finance offenses involving his payment of personal - not campaign - hush money to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, two women who claim to have had affairs with Trump almost a decade before he was a candidate.
As former FEC Chairman Bradley Smith says, "When the FEC wrote the regulation that says what constitutes campaign expenditures and what constitutes personal use, it rejected specifically the idea that campaign expenditure was anything related to a campaign, and instead says it has to be something that exists only because of the campaign and solely for that reason." Indeed, there are reasons to believe Trump would have paid these women even if he were not running for president and attempting to prove Trump's intent would be impossible.
For funzies, let's take a look how the feds have treated campaign finance violations by Obama and Hillary.
Fast forward to 2018 and an FEC complaint is filed by the Committee to Defend the President, claiming that Hillary's campaign committee, the Hillary Victory Fund, was "Using state chapters as straw men to circumvent campaign donation limits and launder(ing) the money back to her campaign." Dan Backer, the attorney who filed the complaint, explains in Investor's Business Daily, that "Roughly $84 million may have been laundered in what might be the single largest campaign finance scandal in U.S. History."
Backer's complaint is rock solid and is a far more serious violation of election law than any campaign finance issue Mueller is currently investigating.
Clearly, if you are Obama or Hillary, you can do just about anything to violate campaign finance laws and the worst thing to happen is a slap on the wrist by the FEC. However, if you are a Republican like President Donald Trump, a very weak allegation of a campaign finance violation will not only be investigated by the feds but is being used to bolster the Democrat argument that Trump should be impeached.
https://spectator.org/justice-is-not-blind-when-it-comes-to-campaign-finance-violations/
Of the eight criminal charges Cohen pleaded guilty to, two of them are alleged campaign finance offenses involving his payment of personal - not campaign - hush money to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, two women who claim to have had affairs with Trump almost a decade before he was a candidate.
As former FEC Chairman Bradley Smith says, "When the FEC wrote the regulation that says what constitutes campaign expenditures and what constitutes personal use, it rejected specifically the idea that campaign expenditure was anything related to a campaign, and instead says it has to be something that exists only because of the campaign and solely for that reason." Indeed, there are reasons to believe Trump would have paid these women even if he were not running for president and attempting to prove Trump's intent would be impossible.
For funzies, let's take a look how the feds have treated campaign finance violations by Obama and Hillary.
Fast forward to 2018 and an FEC complaint is filed by the Committee to Defend the President, claiming that Hillary's campaign committee, the Hillary Victory Fund, was "Using state chapters as straw men to circumvent campaign donation limits and launder(ing) the money back to her campaign." Dan Backer, the attorney who filed the complaint, explains in Investor's Business Daily, that "Roughly $84 million may have been laundered in what might be the single largest campaign finance scandal in U.S. History."
Backer's complaint is rock solid and is a far more serious violation of election law than any campaign finance issue Mueller is currently investigating.
Clearly, if you are Obama or Hillary, you can do just about anything to violate campaign finance laws and the worst thing to happen is a slap on the wrist by the FEC. However, if you are a Republican like President Donald Trump, a very weak allegation of a campaign finance violation will not only be investigated by the feds but is being used to bolster the Democrat argument that Trump should be impeached.
https://spectator.org/justice-is-not-blind-when-it-comes-to-campaign-finance-violations/
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