Its definitely not a common practice. In the enquirer's case, it was done specifically to kill stories that would hurt Trump's public image.
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Its definitely not a common practice. In the enquirer's case, it was done specifically to kill stories that would hurt Trump's public image.
I can't remember where buy I'm confident I heard a newspaper killing a story on behalf of a candidate is a campaign violation.
If the money used to kill the story is from the campaign then that may be the actual violation, not the killing of the story itself.
Isn't the payment made considered a contribution since it benefits the candidate. If it was a Dem candidate the hearings would be 24/7.
Is it possible that Trump misspoke again when he hired Giulini - and the latter thinks his job is to put Trump away rather than defend him?
giuliani's legal strategy
Depressing. All evidence points to obvious collusion to buy Brexit for these rich cnuts to avoid tax legislation. But May will throw the country off the cliff regardless. I bet she is ignoring even deeper intelligence showing this to be the case as well.
Correct, it's supposed to be disclosed because it is essentially a campaign donation. And given the sums involved, it would exceed the limits on donations and therefore be a campaign finance violation.
It's meant specifically to prevent the quid pro quo stuff that Trump has built his presidency on. Drain the swamp!
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Hope Giuliani is listening.
I'm hoping for lots of 'expletive deleted' in the playback.
ahh yeeaahh
Porn stars and Madam's...so hot right now
It's very common practice in the UK. Quite often the press build people up to be me a stars before exposing stuff they have on them in exclusives that can run for up to a month or more. It also becomes apparent that they have sat on much of the material for months and even years in some cases whole they try to find more. Its also apparent they are sitting on stuff while they were actively promoting these people as hero's or role models etc.
The two most obvious examples are the hit jobs the Sunday papers did on Beckham and Gordon Ramsey. Admittedly it's all tabloid journalism and it's shit awful, but they have been doing it for years.
Hmm... wonder if Trumpski is on tape making physical and/or death threats towards others. Please let it be.
Lost in today's nonsense was a story that Avenatti and Cohen ran into one another at a NY restaurant and wound up having a long chat. A reporter asked Avenatti (who has oddly stopped criticizing Cohen recently) whether he would represent him. Avenatti dodged.
“Ran into each other”.
I’d say that’s a good indicator that Cohen is ready to flip. He’s reached out to Avenatti and they’ve agreed it’s no longer in either of their interests for Avenatti to paint Cohen in a bad light anymore as it’ll essentially be doing Trump’s work of discrediting a key witness.
You're making the same mistake as Trump and Guiliani in believing that campaign finance violations must involve monies from the campaign itself.
Buying silence to protect the candidates reputation (either directly or by spiking a story to prevent another outlet running it) is an in-kind contribution and must be reported as such.
For boring people who like reading statutes see Section 30101(8)(A) from the GPO (bottom of page 2).
Some interesting tweets coming from the Intel community..
Cohen is still walking the streets? Shouldn't he be in witness protection or custody?
Wow! Quite an interesting thread here. Also some very witty comments and replies too.
Makes you think though...........
Wow! Quite an interesting thread here. Also some very witty comments and replies too.
Makes you think though...........
She's quite the upgrade the Butina one though... do these moles have to be called Maria?
Sums it up nicely.
As much as Rudy G is an idiot. I wonder if trump himself went over them and leaked this just to distract from Russia news and also to try and paint Cohen as untrustworthy . It definitely was leaked by his side but I'm convinced he blindsided his entire legal team to get the Russia news off the air. Most journalists have caught on to this to be fair.
It’s got the same feel as the single page Trump tax return from a favourable year last year than MSNBC picked up.
It’s one of those “look this is as bad as it gets” kinda things.
Spoiler: It’s not.
exactlyBeen reading the reaction to this on Twitter, and it’s incredible how both sides of the debate seem to believe that the info just released completely vindicates their position. Wish people were a bit more humble.
Quality piece
Great Trump photo there.
Both. America has interfered in other countries for decades. Obviously Trump isn't going to stop it.