That's the legal problematic. What makes it especially problematic is that the contributions take the form of silencing the stories of women which very well could have changed the course of the election.

Nobody got super-butthurt about the Obama campaign's reporting violations because they were inadvertent and didn't have obvious bearing on election outcomes. This is different because the money in question is tied to efforts to cover up affairs in a deliberate effort to hide presumably pertinent information from the voting public. Because of these violations, the public didn't have all the information they might have had in making a decision on who to vote for.

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Slowguy

(insert pithy phrase here...)

Not to mention that trump basically went, "I want to be president, so I will give this guy a bunch of information to blackmail with, that is good idea." Real good judgement on trump's part.

I am sure this is the only information to black mail trump out there, we shouldn't even bother looking for other blackmail.

Just like the Dems said "nothing to see here" with the Clinton Foundation, even though the FBI was investigating. They still rigged their own primary to make her the nominee. This is a prime example of what's wrong with our country. Each tribe circling the wagons around their own to stay in power, despite the damage caused to our country. Both parties are equally at fault for the mess we are in, but people like you can only stand on one side of the aisle and point fingers at those on the other.

If you've never read Slowman criticizing the Dems, you may be the one that's blinkered.

Aside from the clinton foundation, which I dont think was operating while a clinton was in public office, electing leaders for a primary is vastly different than a national election. The RNC and DNC could elect officials via a sorting hat if they wanted to.

The national election follows actual laws.

Speaking from experience?

So the Inaugural Comittee rented a bunch of rooms from the Trump hotel. Someone sent out an email to the person negotating the rates saying that these rates look like overcharging and that they would get in trouble if audited.

The person working on the Inaugural Committee negotiating the rates, Ivanka. So she was negotiating the rate to give to a hotel that she partly owned. That seems right.

The walk backs are beginning.

Perhaps there is still hope for the Pubs?

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Suffer Well.

Who is "they". This isn't Mueller. It's the US Attorney in Manhattan.

i'm glad to hear it. it's less fulsome than cohen's apologies (ironically), and it's got numerous caveats. but i'll take it. i wonder, had obama been formally accused by his own justice department of multiple felonies, and had a fellow senator said, "i don't care, he's doing a good job as president," if hatch would have accepted that senator's walk-back as sufficient.

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Dan Empfield
aka Slowman

I don't care if it's Ironside, no one should be putting the president under this kind of scrutiny. Would Obama be investigated like this?

Hahaha it makes very little sense to compare trump and Obama when it comes to questions of morality.

If you think the gop didn’t look for crimes against Obama you are kidding yourself. In fact a couple of members of the gop resigned because they wouldn’t be able to investigate Hillary anymore.

Of course there is a Trump quote or tweet for every occasion.

in 2016, he stated (I paraphrase but you can google it if you have doubt), "I may be the first person to ever make money running for president".

I guess I need to make my sarcasm more obvious. Thought I was painting it on pretty thick...

I realized after I posted who I was responding to.

No chance. Hillary committed Federal crimes, Donnie boy may have a campaign spending issue.

Please don't interrupt the weekly circle jerk.

Here you go guys:

He's going down, he's going down, he's going down, he's going down. It's all over for Trump this time.

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It doesn't really matter what Phil is saying, the music of his voice is the appropriate soundtrack for a bicycle race. HTupolev

So it looks like trump's campaign chairman gave Russians with ties to Russia Intelligence the campaign's polling data during the campaign.

What an odd and totally innocent thing to do.