If it’s worth saying once
Apparently Trump and Giuliani are so pleased with the way Giuliani’s conversation with Hannity went that they decided to do even more like that.
Rudy Giuliani, who joined President Trump’s personal legal team last week, told Fox News on Thursday that the Trump attorney Michael Cohen had arranged a payment to the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels in order to prevent allegations of an affair from coming out in the closing days of the 2016 election.
The former New York City mayor’s explanation for the $130,000 payment to Daniels suggests the deal likely ran afoul of campaign-finance laws.
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On Thursday morning, Trump tweeted that Cohen “received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign … used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no affair.”
“Money from the campaign, or campaign contributions, played no roll [sic] in this transaction,” the president insisted.
But Giuliani quickly contradicted that explanation in an interview with Fox and Friends Thursday morning, indicating that the payment to Daniels was meant to prevent damaging information from emerging in the latter days of the 2016 campaign. “Imagine if that came out on October 15, 2016, in the middle of the last debate with Hillary Clinton,” Giuliani said. “Cohen didn’t even ask. He made it go away. He did his job.”
That statement, legal experts said, appears to confirm that the payment was a campaign expenditure. “This is good circumstantial evidence this was campaign-related,” said Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine. “Giuliani did Trump no favors.”
No, it’s all part of their cunning plan.
No, the money didn’t play a roll in the campaign. It played a role, of course, but that role wasn’t a roll.
More like a baguette.
I can never make up my mind whether it’s a good or bad thing that the crooks who are in control of this country are so inept.
The problem is, they’re inept at running the country. They seem to be rather ept at crooked – at least at converting dirty money into their money and getting away with it (even as everyone knows they are doing it, and proclaims themselves hopeless to stop them, even with the vast legal machinery of the US to help them).
What’s the point of an NDA if there’s nothing to disclose? What reason would there be for any such document if there was no relationship with Ms. Clifford? Does Trump have NDA’s with all 350 million Americans who are not Stormy Daniels, or 7 billion other humans on the planet? $130,00 to be silent about nothing whatsoever? Where can I sign up for this deal?
When you find out, please pass the information on. I could do with a spare $130,000. Ah, well, I’d probably just waste it supporting community theatre or some such non-commercially viable enterprise like that. Or I might give some of it to the food bank where it would be used to feed losers who were too stupid to get born into a family where they could inherit millions. I am truly not to be trusted with large sums of cash.