We also know none of the beneficiaries of this slush fund have been threatened with indictment and incarceration for campaign finance violations since suppressing such information, as Rep. Nadler puts it, amounts to committing a fraud on the American people using their own money.
The president is entitled to pay hush money to anyone he wants during a campaign.
An expert campaign finance lawyer said in an interview published Monday that he is not impressed with the Department of Justice's evidence that effectively links Trump to campaign finance violations after the recent release of the Cohen sentencing memo.
What the courts and what the statute says very clearly what the FEC has said in its regulation is if something is not an expense that arises directly out of a campaign, for example, you rent office for a campaign headquarters, you hire a campaign manager, you pay for TV ads, you print up buttons and bumper stickers, those are all things you're doing because you're running for office.
The fact that something helps your campaign doesn't make it a campaign expense.
I can't pay the settlements with campaign funds, that's not a campaign expenditure, the obligation did not arise out of my running for office.
So that's the long answer to your question, the short answer is a simple no, paying somebody for something to be quiet about something that was done or alleged years before is not a campaign expense.
http://www.floppingaces.net/2018/12/13/campaign-finance-violations-reveal-the-congressional-hush-fund-hypocrites/
The president is entitled to pay hush money to anyone he wants during a campaign.
An expert campaign finance lawyer said in an interview published Monday that he is not impressed with the Department of Justice's evidence that effectively links Trump to campaign finance violations after the recent release of the Cohen sentencing memo.
What the courts and what the statute says very clearly what the FEC has said in its regulation is if something is not an expense that arises directly out of a campaign, for example, you rent office for a campaign headquarters, you hire a campaign manager, you pay for TV ads, you print up buttons and bumper stickers, those are all things you're doing because you're running for office.
The fact that something helps your campaign doesn't make it a campaign expense.
I can't pay the settlements with campaign funds, that's not a campaign expenditure, the obligation did not arise out of my running for office.
So that's the long answer to your question, the short answer is a simple no, paying somebody for something to be quiet about something that was done or alleged years before is not a campaign expense.
http://www.floppingaces.net/2018/12/13/campaign-finance-violations-reveal-the-congressional-hush-fund-hypocrites/
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