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Apr 7 2023

FEC Commissioner Undermines Entire Manhattan Prosecution, The Trump-Daniels NDA Is Not an Election Campaign Violation


Posted originally on the CTH on April 6, 2023 | Sundance 

If the other substantive weaknesses in the politically constructed Manhattan case against Donald Trump do not lead to a pre-trial dismissal, this one should collapse it.

The Commissioner of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) explicitly states the payments by President Trump to Stormy Daniels are not an election campaign violation.

WASHINGTON DC – A key member of the Federal Election Commission today rejected the Manhattan district attorney’s indictment of former President Donald Trump as a violation of federal election laws.

“It’s not a campaign finance violation. It’s not a reporting violation of any kind,” said FEC Commissioner James E. “Trey” Trainor.  In trying to stretch the law to make it look like a violation, he added, District Attorney Alvin Bragg “is really trying to make a square peg fit into a round hole.”

In a 34-count indictment of Trump, the first criminal case ever against a former president, Bragg charged that a $130,000 payment made by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to porn star Stormy Daniels, which Cohen went to jail for in a plea deal, violated several campaign finance laws that splashed onto Trump. [T]he FEC and Justice Department already considered the case and tossed it.

First, he said, Cohen took the blame in his plea deal. “At the end of the day, there’s the person who committed the crime, and there’s the person who is behind bars because of it,” Trainor said of Cohen.

Second, the paperwork violation in question came well after Trump’s 2016 election, so it couldn’t have been done to help his election.

Third, it is not obvious that the reason for the payment and the reimbursement to Cohen was to influence the election, thus failing the “objective standard” of law. “It has to be something that anybody on the street can look at and say the only reason you did that was to influence the campaign,” said Trainor. “There’s a lot of reasons that he could have done it that aren’t related to him being a candidate for president, and so therefore, it wouldn’t have met the standard as campaign expenditure under federal law,” he added. (read more)

Apr 6 2023

Stormy Daniels Forced to Pay Trump’s Legal Fees


Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted Apr 6, 2023 by Martin Armstrong

Stormy Daniels, the ill-advised Jezebel, has been ordered by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to pay Donald Trump’s legal fees. Daniels would not have chosen a career in on-camera prostitution if she were smart enough to extort a former president. Someone is advising her behind the scenes. In this particular instance, Daniels attempted to sue Trump for defamation for a tweet he posted depicting her ex-husband alongside an unknown man who she said was threatening her to remain silent. The judge completely dismissed this case from 2018 as her “argument that the fee request is unreasonable and excessive is not well-founded.” She has been ordered to pay $121,000 in legal fees on top of hundreds of thousands that she already owes Trump.

The media is painting Stormy Daniels (born Stephanie A Gregory) as this innocent victim who fell prey to a powerful man who she said seduced her. Consider the source. I will not post some of her most recent tweets on this blog as they are too foul to share, but you can view them for yourself. She has used this scandal for personal gain through book sales, merchandise, and even sex toys. She has appeared on many major talk shows and the leftist media has applauded her for speaking out as if she were the victim.

Daniels met Trump in 2006 but decided to go public when he announced his presidential bid. She claims to have spent numerous nights with Donald on her own free will despite claiming to be disgusted by him. In her own words, they had sex once and no money was exchanged. Trump denies the affair entirely.

It is not illegal to pay for a nondisclosure agreement. The issue here is they are claiming Trump violated the law by using campaign funds to silence this vulgar woman. They claim that his lawyer threatened her. The people using her to pin charges on a former president are discrediting all women who have been victimized. Where is the #MeToo crowd? The American legal system is allowing a porn star to interfere in our elections blatantly and without question. This has to be one of the most absurd and obscene cases in American history.