Paul Manafort Guilty of 8 Charges

[doctorjj]

Funny, that doesn't sound like what I said.

Trump would have been entirely free to spend his own money. He could have taken other actions to discredit the story. What he can't do is accept an over-the-limit campaign contribution, whether in-cash or in-kind...and since it's coming out that he authorized the payoff, he doesn't get to claim innocent victim status.

But yes, when you choose to become a political candidate, you do give up a lot of privacy in favor of public scrutiny. That's a good thing.

So did he authorize the payment or not? Because if he did authorize it, are we to believe that Cohen paid that money out of his pocket as a donation? And didn’t get paid back? If he did get paid back, was it from Trump’s personal and/or business accounts? If so, he’s still in the clear. And to answer another poster, you can absolutely count that payment as a business expense. Trump has a brand to protect. Paying that hush money to protect the brand certainly qualifies as a business expense. So unless there is proof that Cohen paid it and never got paid back or proof that Trump paid it out of his campaign money, then this is a non-story.

 

[dennishoddy]

So what about all of Hillary and Bill's corruption. We can put Trump on trial just as soon as they get their comeuppance. Make it a threefor!

How about obama? His campaign was found guilty of campaign issues and they only paid a fine. A quite substantial fine BTW.
Conservatives go to jai.

 

[doctorjj]

You know what else you can't do?

You cant pay your lawyer back through phony invoices and then deduct the hush money as business legal expenses.

Can you pay lawyers through phony invoices to do opposition research by using foreign agents? Is that legal?

 

[dennishoddy]

There is no scenario in which Hillary becomes president. .

Oh yes there is.
It was discussed a while back among liberals and made headlines. Trump gets impeached, and Pence being the honorable man that his is, would resign, and the house I think it was would vote to put hildabeast in the vacant position.

 

[dennishoddy]

It wouldn't be a drop in the ocean.

Not to the budget it wouldn't, but its danged sure lining the pockets of the witch hunters.

 

[ignerntbend]

Oh yes there is.
It was discussed a while back among liberals and made headlines. Trump gets impeached, and Pence being the honorable man that his is, would resign, and the house I think it was would vote to put hildabeast in the vacant position.

So there is a fantasy world scenario you read on the internet. You should get out of the habit of entertaining stuff like that. Pence would NOT resign and the House wouldn't vote on a replacement if he did. The Speaker of the House would automatically be president (if Pence resigned) and that would not be Hillary.

 

[dennishoddy]

So did he authorize the payment or not? Because if he did authorize it, are we to believe that Cohen paid that money out of his pocket as a donation? And didn’t get paid back? If he did get paid back, was it from Trump’s personal and/or business accounts? If so, he’s still in the clear. And to answer another poster, you can absolutely count that payment as a business expense. Trump has a brand to protect. Paying that hush money to protect the brand certainly qualifies as a business expense. So unless there is proof that Cohen paid it and never got paid back or proof that Trump paid it out of his campaign money, then this is a non-story.

The left has to fantasize about something. Russian collusion isn't working.

 

[caojyn]

Oh yes there is.
It was discussed a while back among liberals and made headlines. Trump gets impeached, and Pence being the honorable man that his is, would resign, and the house I think it was would vote to put hildabeast in the vacant position.

Isn’t that the plot of sharknado 6 ?

 

[dennishoddy]

Isn’t that the plot of sharknado 6 ?

Don't know. Never watched it.

 

[Dave70968]

Oh yes there is.
It was discussed a while back among liberals and made headlines. Trump gets impeached, and Pence being the honorable man that his is, would resign, and the house I think it was would vote to put hildabeast in the vacant position.

Proof that the study about any amount of alcohol being bad for you is true....