JRPGfan said:
bowserthedog said:
Right but it's not a serious thing. Obama did it too and was fined. It's not something you go to jail for or get impeached for.
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Its a federal crime...... how is that not a "serious thing" ?
Its one of the things Michael cohen is going to jail for..... something he did FOR TRUMP, at his direction.
also "but obama did it tooo" :
"Election law experts said that more minor violations are treated as regulatory or civil matters, while egregious and willful campaign finance violations are treated as criminal acts" -
Jane C. Timm (nbc news)
Obama's was treated as a minor civil matter, because of the nature of it (what amount, and how it happend ect).
The two cases are not the same at all, Trumps violantion is much worse, his is being treated as a criminal act.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-cites-massive-obama-campaign-finance-violation-experts-say-cohen-n902921
Obama campagne finance violations (a week before he won, his campagne workers messed up):
missing filing deadlines (late to say I recieved some money as a donation)
reporting the wrong dates on donation (I mislabel something)
vs
Trump campagne finance violations (trump himself ordered his lawyer to do something unlawfull):
knowingly directed my lawyer to pay hushmoney, over the said amount allowed for, to kill a story that could have cost me the election.
They are 2 very differnt things.
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Hush money is legal.
You're basing all of this on Cohen's word. The words of a man who was facing much more time for other crimes committed. Since the money was paid back from Trump personally it was not a crime at all. It also occurred before he even ran for office. Give me an example of somebody else who ran for president and hush money was considered a campaign expense rather than a personal expense?
