Trump ordered payments with ‘purpose of influencing election’

[mentalfloss]

inb4 everyone does that so it's okay.


Trump ordered payments with ‘purpose of influencing election’

U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to campaign finance violations and other charges, saying he made payments to influence the 2016 election at the direction of a candidate for federal office.

Cohen, 51, appearing in federal court in Manhattan, pleaded guilty to one count of willfully causing an unlawful corporate campaign contribution and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution.

He said he arranged to make payments “for (the) principal purpose of influencing (the) election” at the direction of a candidate for federal office but did not give the candidate’s name.

Cohen, who agreed to a plea bargain with federal prosecutors earlier in the day, also pleaded guilty to five counts of tax fraud and one count of making false statements to a financial institution.

The deal includes a possible prison sentence of up to five years and three months.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4399826/michael-cohen-plea-deal/amp/

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Nowhere in the story does it name Trump. You just added that. Probably a good guess but not supported by the article.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Nowhere in the story does it name Trump. You just added that. Probably a good guess but not supported by the article.

Getting more desperate. . .

Cohen told the court that “in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office,” he and the chief executive of a media company worked in the summer of 2016 to keep an individual from publicly disclosing information that could harm the candidate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...3ce89036c78_story.html?utm_term=.a1aaa0f384e0

Wonder who that could have been?

by the way, they've also released the tape of him discussing it with Trump. I know the denial is strong, but this is getting silly.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Michael Cohen pleads guilty, implicates Trump

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/21/poli...utm_term=37bd4314-c43e-c11b-445b-c810f6d589a1

Pandora's box might just have been busted.open.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Getting more desperate. . .

Cohen told the court that “in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office,” he and the chief executive of a media company worked in the summer of 2016 to keep an individual from publicly disclosing information that could harm the candidate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...3ce89036c78_story.html?utm_term=.a1aaa0f384e0

Wonder who that could have been?

by the way, they've also released the tape of him discussing it with Trump. I know the denial is strong, but this is getting silly.

I am not denying it. I think that it almost certainly was for him. However, nowhere in this article is that mentioned yet you notice it is in the title of the link on the board by the Flossmiester. Simply pointing that out.

 

[Highball]

My bet is nothing will ever come of this. Look at the past year. Many revelations and some insinuating criminal activity. How many convicted and in jail? Few.

 

[captain morgan]

inb4 everyone does that so it's okay.


Trump ordered payments with ‘purpose of influencing election’

... And he's still POTUS.

This is really cutting you to the core, isn't it?

 

[Mowich]

No fan of Trump but I do wonder if all those who would gleefully see him thrown out of the White House have bothered to find out about his replacement.

God’s Plan for Mike Pence

Will the vice president—and the religious right—be rewarded for their embrace of Donald Trump?

No man can serve two masters, the Bible teaches, but Mike Pence is giving it his all. It’s a sweltering September afternoon in Anderson, Indiana, and the vice president has returned to his home state to deliver the Good News of the Republicans’ recently unveiled tax plan. The visit is a big deal for Anderson, a fading manufacturing hub about 20 miles outside Muncie that hasn’t hosted a sitting president or vice president in 65 years—a fact noted by several warm-up speakers. To mark this historic civic occasion, the cavernous factory where the event is being held has been transformed. Idle machinery has been shoved to the perimeter to make room for risers and cameras and a gargantuan American flag, which—along with bleachers full of constituents carefully selected for their ethnic diversity and ability to stay awake during speeches about tax policy—will serve as the TV-ready backdrop for Pence’s remarks.

When the time comes, Pence takes the stage and greets the crowd with a booming “Hellooooo, Indiana!” He says he has “just hung up the phone” with Donald Trump and that the president asked him to “say hello.” He delivers this message with a slight chuckle that has a certain, almost subversive quality to it. Watch Pence give enough speeches, and you’ll notice that this often happens when he’s in front of a friendly crowd. He’ll be witnessing to evangelicals at a mega-church, or addressing conservative supporters at a rally, and when the moment comes for him to pass along the president’s well-wishes, the words are invariably accompanied by an amused little chuckle that prompts knowing laughter from the attendees. It’s almost as if, in that brief, barely perceptible moment, Pence is sending a message to those with ears to hear—that he recognizes the absurdity of his situation; that he knows just what sort of man he’s working for; that while things may look bad now, there is a grand purpose at work here, a plan that will manifest itself in due time. Let not your hearts be troubled, he seems to be saying. I’ve got this.

And then, all at once, Pence is back on message. In his folksy Midwestern drawl, he recites Republican aphorisms about “job creators” and regulatory “red tape,” and heralds the many supposed triumphs of Trump’s young presidency. As he nears the end of his remarks, his happy-warrior buoyancy gives way to a more sober cadence. “We’ve come to a pivotal moment in the life of this country,” Pence soulfully intones. “It’s a good time to pray for America.” His voice rising in righteous fervor, the vice president promises an opening of the heavens. “If His people who are called by His name will humble themselves and pray,” he proclaims, “He’ll hear from heaven, and He’ll heal this land!”

It’s easy to see how Pence could put so much faith in the possibilities of divine intervention. The very fact that he is standing behind a lectern bearing the vice-presidential seal is, one could argue, a loaves-and-fishes-level miracle.

Just a year earlier, he was an embattled small-state governor with underwater approval ratings, dismal reelection prospects, and a national reputation in tatters. In many ways, Pence was on the same doomed trajectory as the conservative-Christian movement he’d long championed—once a political force to be reckoned with, now a battered relic of the culture wars.

More..........lots more: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/gods-plan-for-mike-pence/546569/
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[Ocean Breeze]

My bet is nothing will ever come of this. Look at the past year. Many revelations and some insinuating criminal activity. How many convicted and in jail? Few.

If that is the case......it simply demonstrates how LOW the US has gone.... When criminal actions can be dismissed with that kind of attitude......... then a decay of toxic proportions is setting in the nation.........and at the top.

When laws don't matter or can be manipulated , If ethics are disregarded and or ignored, and if the FACTS are twisted to suit a political agenda or personal bias........then there is a humongous problem.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

No fan of Trump but I do wonder if all those who would gleefully see him thrown out of the White House have bothered to find out about his replacement.

God’s Plan for Mike Pence

Will the vice president—and the religious right—be rewarded for their embrace of Donald Trump?

More..........lots more: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/gods-plan-for-mike-pence/546569/
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The whole package is scary.



These men of arrogance and evangelical allegiance are the desperate ramblings of a group who simply cannot let go of the ridiculous notion that man walked the earth with the dinosaurs 2000 years ago. Prior to this, when prior? Don't ask me, I never made my first communion. Anyways, an old dude, named Noah, was told to build an Ark that would house every living creature in the world. Two kangaroos, two cows, two moose, you get the jest. Because. the big Guy was pissed off because as usual, humans were fornicating and doing shit that he felt was... Shitty.


I mean let's face it, man. God was being pretty cool when he made the Smoking Hot Eve out of one of Adam's ribs and I hear that Eden was a rocking place with free fruit and naked bathing and tropical drinks that had umbrella's in them. God gave it all to them and for some reason he got a little paranoid so he told them not to eat the forbidden fruit, which was essentially like double-dog daring them, and then introducing the first lawyer into the garden with an apple to sell.

I'm going to stop there and just say that this is what the dudes who hold the launch codes for the ICBM's believe.

 

[Danbones]

hillary paid for the piss doc...

 

[Ocean Breeze]

White House Starts to Think About Impeachment


https://politicalwire.com/2018/08/21/white-house-starts-to-think-about-impeachment/


Meanwhile Trump is at another r really.. infusing his followers with more slogans.

 

[Walter]

Another thread and all of them hoping this is the topic to get rid of Trump and it will be another fail.

 

[Hoid]

Mike Pence will be a lame duck with no way to move legislation through.

SO pretty much like Trump.

 

[Cliffy]

 

[taxslave]

Getting more desperate. . .

Cohen told the court that “in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office,” he and the chief executive of a media company worked in the summer of 2016 to keep an individual from publicly disclosing information that could harm the candidate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...3ce89036c78_story.html?utm_term=.a1aaa0f384e0

Wonder who that could have been?

by the way, they've also released the tape of him discussing it with Trump. I know the denial is strong, but this is getting silly.

Since the ho didn't keep her trap shut do they get a refund?

If that is the case......it simply demonstrates how LOW the US has gone.... When criminal actions can be dismissed with that kind of attitude......... then a decay of toxic proportions is setting in the nation.........and at the top.

When laws don't matter or can be manipulated , If ethics are disregarded and or ignored, and if the FACTS are twisted to suit a political agenda or personal bias........then there is a humongous problem.

Speaking of Clintons........

 

[Cliffy]

I don't think Pence is the real fear for taking down Trump. The real fear is 100 million heavily armed, dumb as a sack of hammers, Trumpites taking to the streets and shooting up the country in a orgy of blood and gore, kinda like the French revolution. The end result will be most of those with any brains will be killed off or escaped to friendlier countries, leaving about 200 million brain dead inbreds - Trump's base support and those who wished they had voted.

 

[Hoid]

the righties are scared to come out.

Look at the "rally" in Washington.

 

[Cliffy]

the righties are scared to come out.

Look at the "rally" in Washington.

Those guys are fringe dwellers. I'm talking about all the inbred hillbillies from red states that are armed to the teeth and think taking down god's chosen leader is an affront to god itself - the ones who missed the boat when brains were being handed out.

 

[Bar Sinister]

I don't think Pence is the real fear for taking down Trump. The real fear is 100 million heavily armed, dumb as a sack of hammers, Trumpites taking to the streets and shooting up the country in a orgy of blood and gore, kinda like the French revolution. The end result will be most of those with any brains will be killed off or escaped to friendlier countries, leaving about 200 million brain dead inbreds - Trump's base support and those who wished they had voted.

Not to worry. From what I've seen the average Trumpite couldn't organize a piss-up in the proverbial brewery.