Prosecutors investigating President Trump made big news Friday, but it wasn't about Russia.
Rather, in their sentencing recommendation for fixer Michael Cohen, lawyers with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York wrote that in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign, candidate Trump directed Cohen to pay off Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, who wanted money to keep quiet about sexual dalliances.
So no one has to talk about an "Alleged" campaign finance scheme; there's already a guilty plea.
What had been a two-year-long conversation about Trump and Russia instantly became a conversation about Trump and campaign finance.
"Prosecutors are now implicating the president in at least two felonies," said CNN. "Federal prosecutors in New York say that President Trump directed Michael Cohen to commit two felonies," said NBC's Chuck Todd.
The New York Times called the Edwards indictment "a case that had no precedent." Noting that campaign finance law is "Ever changing," the paper said the Edwards case came down to one question: "Were the donations for the sole purpose of influencing the campaign or merely one purpose?".
Trump used his own money, which even the byzantine and restrictive campaign finance laws give candidates a lot of freedom to use in unlimited amounts.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-sudden-shift-in-get-trump-talk-now-its-campaign-finance-not-russia
Rather, in their sentencing recommendation for fixer Michael Cohen, lawyers with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York wrote that in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign, candidate Trump directed Cohen to pay off Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, who wanted money to keep quiet about sexual dalliances.
So no one has to talk about an "Alleged" campaign finance scheme; there's already a guilty plea.
What had been a two-year-long conversation about Trump and Russia instantly became a conversation about Trump and campaign finance.
"Prosecutors are now implicating the president in at least two felonies," said CNN. "Federal prosecutors in New York say that President Trump directed Michael Cohen to commit two felonies," said NBC's Chuck Todd.
The New York Times called the Edwards indictment "a case that had no precedent." Noting that campaign finance law is "Ever changing," the paper said the Edwards case came down to one question: "Were the donations for the sole purpose of influencing the campaign or merely one purpose?".
Trump used his own money, which even the byzantine and restrictive campaign finance laws give candidates a lot of freedom to use in unlimited amounts.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-sudden-shift-in-get-trump-talk-now-its-campaign-finance-not-russia
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