Trump attny Cohen amassed ~$1.25 million in final days of Trump campaign - Polidicks

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-probes-cohen-over-cash-he-built-up-during-campaign-1525478682 https://t.co/pibsJxMRTk Cohen received $470,000 from Donald Trump, and another $775,000 rapidly accrued from lines of credit -- not disclosed -- in the final 90 days of the campaign, during which time the Steele Dossier alleges that COHEN was acting as one of the chief liasions between the Trump campaign and Russia, and that his cladestine operations included arranging a payment to Russia-linked hackers during a trip to Prague. Cohen has repeatedly claimed that the trip to Prague never happened, but recent revelations that Mueller's team have reason to believe that he DID visit Prague during the period in question, when combined with the fact that we now know he quickly amassed a large amount of undisclosed liquid cash during this same period, seem to confirm yet another major pillar of the Steele Dossier.

Making America "Great" , one corrupt step back at a time

Maybe making America great again means going back to the Gilded Age

Can someone clear something up for me? Giuliani said there's no problem with campaign financing laws because the money was... whatever. Somehow magically moved from Trump's bank account to Cohen's. Does the law only take into consideration how the money was obtained, and not how it was used?

Again, the Steele Dossier is being proven truer and truer each day and has yet to have any info disproven.

almost like Steele did have some credible information. too bad everytime I email my rep I get a form letter saying it was all fake.

Giuliani says there's no campaign finance violation because there is. He himself has basically outright stated that the payment was made to silence Daniels, and he asked "imagine if that news had come out on October 15, 2016" where it could influence the election... And by saying that he confirms the payment was made to influence the election, making it a campaign contribution, and an illegally large one at that. Rudy is saying what Trump wants to be true and hopes the American people will lockstep behind him, and in doing so he's undermining Trump's cover-ups and lies with lies that are far far closer to the truth and expose the broad shape of the truth by dancing around it very closely and carefully.

No lawyer here, but how it was used IS the critical question in terms of whether or not campaign finance law was violated. If the money came from the campaign directly, it's that much more serious. However, a "donation" of $130,000 to the campaign would still constitute a serious violation. This news, however, now extends far beyond "just" a serious campaign finance crime. Cohen amassing $1.25m in the last ninety days of the campaign, paired with evidence that he did seem to travel to Prague, despite his repeated statements that he had not, seems to confirm another major pillar of the Steele dossier. In a nutshell, we're not just looking at a "simple" campaign finance law violation, we're looking at a criminal conspiracy with a hostile foreign state to steal a US election. In effect: we're looking at treason, though an actual treason charge is unlikely given that we are not officially at war with Russia.

I wish I had asked today before I went to the store, I have no popcorn at home.

I think I can say with reasonable confidence that Trump will be impeached before long.

I hope you're right, but I'm not holding my breath. I have 100% confidence that Mueller's team already has enough testimony and evidence to put Trump away for the rest of his life on Obstruction of Justice, False Statements, financial crimes, and fraud alone -- to say nothing about the Russian election conspiracy. However, the GOP and impeachment stand between conviction, and they've been posturing for months now to toss aside the results of the investigation as a "partisan witch hunt" once they become public. The shit they've already pulled would have been enough to send half the administration and most of the GOP party leadership through impeachment, if not even prison, but they just keep pushing the limits of what the public will tolerate further and further.

it's important to remember that impeachment is a political proceding, not a criminal one, and: (1) republican legislators have no integrity whatsoever (see also: "DEEPLY CONCERNED" senators voting 52-48) (2) the GOP has spent the last 2 years transporting conservatives to an alternate reality where any evidence of wrongdoing is made-up and can be ignored republicans don't have the backbone to take a stand themselves, and they won't be forced to by their constituents because they already know their constituents will ignore anything negative about trump anyway (assuming they can't deflect it -- we're already at the "and if he did collude, it isn't a crime" stage). the gop has done so much in the last 10 years to divorce their voters from reality that -- since all they care about is getting re-elected, and with a solid voter base that will never stop voting republican they simply have to continue parroting conservative talking points to stay in power -- i really can't see them taking a stand. whatever mueller comes up with, they'll quite happily ignore.

Everybody should go back and read through the dossier again, it's fucking crazy. Page 32 1. Speaking in confidence to a longstanding compatriot friend in midOctober 2016, a Kremlin insider highlighted the importance of Republican presidential candidate Donald TRUMP's lawyer, Michael COHEN, in the ongoing secret liaison relationship between the New York tycoon's campaign and the Russian leadership. COHEN's role had grown following the departure of Paul MANNAFORT as TRUMP's campaign manager in August 2016 . Prior to that MANNAFORT had led for the TRUMP side . 2. According to the Kremlin insider, COHEN now was heavily engaged in a cover up and damage limitation operation in the attempt to prevent the full details of TRUMP's relationship with Russia being exposed. In pursuit of this aim, COHEN had met secretly with several Russian Presidential Administration (PA) Legal Department officials in an EU country in August 2016. The immediate issues had been to contain further scandals involving MANNAFORT's commercial and political role in Russia/Ukraine and to limit the damage arising from exposure of former TRUMP foreign policy advisor, Carter PAGE's secret meetings with Russian leadership figures in Moscow the previous month. The overall objective had been to "to sweep it all under the carpet and make sure no connections could be fully established or proven" Page 34 2. (2 lines redacted) provided further details of these meeting/sand associated anti- CLINTON Democratic Party operations. COHEN had been accompanied to Prague by 3 colleagues and the timing of the visit was either in the last week of August or the first week of September. One of their main Russian interlocutors was Oleg SOLODUKHIN operating under Rossotrudnichestvo cover. According to (redacted) , the agenda comprised questions on how deniable cash payments were to be made to hackers who had worked in Europe under Kremlin direction against the CLINTON campaign and various contingenciesf or coveringu p these operations and Moscow's secret liaison with the TRUMP team more generally.

What's truly impressive is that, to date, absolutely nothing within the dossier has been proven false. Even Christopher Steel himself estimated ~20% of it may not be accurate, as that's kind of the nature of Human Intelligence. However, the more we publicly learn, the more it appears as if nearly every pillar of the report is to ultimately be proven true. This really highlights what an incredible agent Steele really is, and explains why and how he has been able to maintain a decades-long professional reputation for spotless work.

Even with ironclad evidence I doubt the Republicans will be down to impeach the president until his poll numbers start impacting the party by association

and considering the psychotic diamond core of the GOP that will never, ever stop worshipping trump, i really would not hold my breath