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Originally Posted by andi*pandi
Isn't this like 3 threads you've posted this Hannity video to?
What, you expect him to explain his reasoning? (I thought it was three threads too but I'm not sure what the third is)
Originally Posted by andi*pandi
"clinton mob family"
ya no.
The projection is real.
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
Trump organization CFO granted immunity per WSJ.
That's a really big one
Use immunity. Sounds like it was tied to charging Cohen.
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So, will any of the 17 million paid out be treated as "in kind contributions" meant to "affect the outcome of elections?"
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/polit...ent/index.html
On Thursday, the Office of Compliance released additional information indicating that it has paid victims more than $17 million since its creation in the 1990s. That includes all settlements, not just related to sexual harassment, but also discrimination and other cases.
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
What, you expect him to explain his reasoning? (I thought it was three threads too but I'm not sure what the third is)
Two. Twice in this one and once in the so called collusion thread.
The only ones projecting are the D's in Congress. Don't forget, as you cats chase Trump's laser pointer, Huber is off in Utah working behind the scenes.
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Originally Posted by Chongo
Those payments appear to be disclosed to the public. And non-partisan. They could use more disclosure - I'd be in favor of full disclosure. There's also no reason to believe the settlements follow any particular schedule, such as election schedules.
Making payments to hush things does not work if you disclose the payment took place. Hence why they did the runaround, with Cohen paying, and Trump later reimbursing. It benefited only the Trump campaign (no benefit to Hillary, Johnson, or Stein). Like cutting through a corner gas station to avoid public disclosure waiting at a red light, then turning. Which is illegal in CA, btw.
Also, posting video links to Fox News is not an ideal response, as many people refuse to watch anything on Fox News. Perhaps you could explain your reasoning in words, and use links for sources.
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Originally Posted by reader50
Those payments appear to be disclosed to the public. And non-partisan. They could use more disclosure - I'd be in favor of full disclosure. There's also no reason to believe the settlements follow any particular schedule, such as election schedules.
Making payments to hush things does not work if you disclose the payment took place. Hence why they did the runaround, with Cohen paying, and Trump later reimbursing. It benefited only the Trump campaign (no benefit to Hillary, Johnson, or Stein). Like cutting through a corner gas station to avoid public disclosure waiting at a red light, then turning. Which is illegal in CA, btw.
Also, posting video links to Fox News is not an ideal response, as many people refuse to watch anything on Fox News. Perhaps you could explain your reasoning in words, and use links for sources.
Those payments were not made public until last year, over a decade after they began.
How about the former FEC chief that wrote the rules?
Those payments to women were unseemly. That doesn’t mean they were illegal.
However, regardless of what Cohen agreed to in a plea bargain, hush-money payments to mistresses are not really campaign expenditures. It is true that “contribution” and “expenditure” are defined in the Federal Election Campaign Act as anything “for the purpose of influencing any election,” and it may have been intended and hoped that paying hush money would serve that end. The problem is that almost anything a candidate does can be interpreted as intended to “influence an election,” from buying a good watch to make sure he gets to places on time, to getting a massage so that he feels fit for the campaign trail, to buying a new suit so that he looks good on a debate stage. Yet having campaign donors pay for personal luxuries — such as expensive watches, massages and Brooks Brothers suits — seems more like bribery than funding campaign speech.
Suppose, for example, that Trump had told his lawyers, “Look, these complaints about Trump University have no merit, but they embarrass me as a candidate. Get them settled.” Are the settlements thus “campaign expenses”? The obvious answer is no, even though the payments were intended to benefit Trump as a candidate.
If the opposite were true and they were considered campaign expenses, then not only could Trump pay them with campaign funds, but also he would be required to pay these business expenses from campaign funds. Is that what campaign donations are for?
But let’s go in that direction. Suppose Trump had used campaign funds to pay off these women. Does anyone much doubt that many of the same people now after Trump for using corporate funds, and not reporting them as campaign expenditures, would then be claiming that Trump had illegally diverted campaign funds to “personal use”? Or that federal prosecutors would not have sought a guilty plea from Cohen on that count? And that gets us to a troubling nub of campaign finance laws: Too often, you can get your target coming or going.
Yes, those payments were unseemly, but unseemliness doesn’t make something illegal. At the very least, the law is murky about whether paying hush money to a mistress is a “campaign expense” or a personal expense. In such circumstances, we would not usually expect prosecutors to charge the individuals with a “knowing and willful” violation, leading to criminal charges and possible jail time. A civil fine would be the normal response.
But Cohen is not the normal defendant, and prosecutors almost certainly squeezed him to plead guilty on these charges, in part, for the purpose of building a case for possible criminal or impeachment charges against the president, or even, daresay, “influencing the reelection” of Trump.
Laws, once stretched from their limited language and proper purpose, are difficult to pound back into shape. We should proceed with caution here.
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If Trump had actually paid off the mistresses with campaign funds (and disclosed as required) I would not consider that illegal. I wouldn't count it as a personal expense (during an election campaign). But it would be embarrassing of course.
The best action would be to not pay anyone off, not hush anyone. Let facts come out as they may, and the voters can decide what is relevant.
Edit - after further thought, we're talking about using money. To keep candidate information from voters. During an election. Think about that, and how a functioning democracy requires informed voters.
On 2nd thought, I don't have a problem with nabbing such a person whichever way they do the payoff. They deserve heat for what they really did - cripple voter knowledge when it counts. And I'd feel the same way if Hillary paid off some gigolos. Or if Jill Stein did. Or Johnson. A candidate paying hush money is shameful and hurts our elections.
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Speaking of NDAs... https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/24/polit...ami/index.html
A former Trump World Tower doorman who says he has knowledge of an alleged affair President Donald Trump had with an ex-housekeeper, which resulted in a child, is now able to talk about a contract he entered with American Media Inc. that had prohibited him from discussing the matter with anyone, according to his attorney.
The contract appears to have been signed on Nov. 15, 2015, and states that AMI has exclusive rights to Sajudin's story but does not mention the details of the story itself beyond saying, "Source shall provide AMI with information regarding Donald Trump's illegitimate child..."
Sajudin's allegation that Trump fathered a child out of wedlock has not been independently confirmed by any of the outlets that have investigated the story.
This is related to National Enquirer guy, which is why it might be noteworthy. I question why they would let him out, however.
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Keep chasing that dot.
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Meanwhile, @GOP headquarters:
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Originally Posted by Chongo
Keep chasing that dot.
How would you analogize your continued concern over the Clintons?
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Originally Posted by Laminar
How would you analogize your continued concern over the Clintons?
My concerns were alleviated when Billary was not sworn in as POTUS. If I were you, I would be worried about what Huber has in all those sealed indictments.
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Originally Posted by Chongo
My concerns were alleviated when Billary was not sworn in as POTUS. If I were you, I would be worried about what Huber has in all those sealed indictments.
Really? Because I'm seeing about 75 hits for "Clinton" in your posts from the last 18 months, several hits for "Uranium One," and another 60-70 hits for "Hillary." For someone whose fears were alleviated, you've sure spent a lot of time obsessing about her since the election.
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It seems we missed some news.
A California judge has ordered Donald Trump to pay the adult film actor and director Stormy Daniels $44,100, to cover legal fees in the battle over her non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with the president.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, says she had an affair with Trump from 2006 until 2007. Trump denies it.
Daniels sued in 2018, seeking to be released from an NDA she signed with Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, 11 days before the 2016 election. The lawsuit was dismissed as the agreement was deemed unenforceable.
Relevant part bolded. This is the NDA we've been talking about. Apparently dismissed because Trump paid, but never signed the agreement. So Stormy is free to tell everything. I didn't hear about this whenever it happened.
Though she's free to post any pictures she took, I hope she exercises restraint on those. Polling shows Trump will lose badly anyway. Pictures optional.
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