Rudy Giuliani admits that Donald Trump ‘repaid’ the $130K Stormy Daniels payoff
May 3, 2018This is what kills me about the current hellscape we’re living in right now: none of these people are geniuses. In fact, they’re all really f–king stupid. They’ve made huge (some would say “bigly”) mistakes, they’ve broken the laws thousands of times over the course of three years, they suck at covering up their crimes, they’re sh-tty at explaining themselves and they’re all really awful liars. It should not be this difficult to throw these people in jail. They are literally incriminating themselves whenever they open up their Nazi mouths.
So, with that in mind, let’s listen to the president’s new lawyer/legal advisor Rudy Giuliani explain why Michael Cohen paying $130K to Stormy Daniels was perfectly legal and not any kind of federal crime involving campaign financing.
Assorted quotes from Giuliani:
“…Having something having to do with paying some Stormy Daniels woman $130,000–I mean which going to turn out to be perfectly legal. That money was not campaign money, sorry, I’m giving you a fact right now that you don’t know. It’s not campaign money, no campaign finance violation…They funneled through the law firm and the president repaid it. Everybody was nervous about this from the very beginning. I wasn’t…when I heard Cohen’s retainer of $35,000, when he was doing no work for the president, I said, ‘That’s how he’s repaying it, with a little profit and a little margin for paying taxes, for Michael.’ [Trump] didn’t know about the specifics of it (the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels), as far as I know. But he did know about the general arrangement that Michael would take care of things like this.”
WELL. Well. Well. Take care of THINGS like this. Plural. How many women got paid off in 2015-16? Does Bob Mueller know? Does Michael Avenatti know? But I’m not going to get ahead of myself – what Giuliani admits to right here is actually several federal crimes:
The Washington Post’s analysis said the same thing, which is that the Stormy Daniels payment was a de facto campaign contribution and when Cohen paid it – regardless of whether the $130K came from his shady law firm – it was an excessive loan TO THE CAMPAIGN and thus violated federal law. And now that Giuliani is on the record – AS TRUMP’S LAWYER – saying that Trump knew about the payment and paid the money back to Michael Cohen… that’s an even bigger campaign-finance violation/crime. Not to mention that if Giuliani is correct, that means Trump has been lying about this for months.
My bae Michael Avenatti – Stormy Daniels’ lawyer and American hero – tweeted this following Giuliani’s interview:
I remember watching Avenatti in an interview about a month ago where he basically said that if we’re going to bring down Trump, it won’t be because of “collusion” and “treason.” Avenatti said that at the end of the day, most of these a–holes will go down from smaller crimes like this – picayune campaign finance shenanigans, tax fraud, lying to the FBI, that kind of thing. I’m fine with that too.
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