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Trump Is Planning to Send Kill Teams to Mexico to Take Out Cartel Leaders The Great Falling Away in the Church is Here | Tim Dilena Status: Not Logged In; Sign In United States News See other United States News Articles Title: Cohen Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion, Claims Trump Told Him to Pay Off Paramours Source: Reason URL Source: http://reason.com/blog/2018/08/21/c ... ds-guilty-to-tax-evasion-claim Published: Aug 21, 2018 Author: Scott Shackford Post Date: 2018-08-22 05:17:48 by Deckard Keywords: None Views: 4828 Comments: 53 Those payments are being treated as campaign violations. Michael Cohen, former lawyer for President Donald Trump, has pleaded guilty to eight charges, including coordinating with Trump during the campaign to make payments to women in order to silence them about sexual liasions. In federal court in Manhattan this afternoon, Cohen surrendered to the FBI and pleaded guilty to five counts of tax evasion from 2012 to 2016 (equal to more than $4 million), one count of making a false statement to a financial institution, and most importantly, two counts related to illegal campaign contributions from 2016. Cohen told the court that he arranged for payments for porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy playmate Karen McDougal to keep them silent about sexual relationships with Trump. He says he did so in coordination with Trump, who later reimbursed him $130,000, concealing when the payments took place in order to appear that they didn't happen during the election. Cohen didn't actually name Trump, but he did say he did this at the direction of "a candidate," not leaving many other options as to who that might be. More details of the plea agreement are to come. The agreement does not oblige Cohen to cooperate further with prosecutors. But given the two campaign charges he's pleading guilty to, the lack of a cooperation agreement may not mean a lot. The deal includes jail time and a fine. He'll be sentenced in December. UPDATE: Read the plea agreement here. Read the U.S. attorney's charges here. Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread   Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 8. #1. To: Deckard (#0) Of course Trump told him to pay off paramours. What we need in the US is a constitutional right to privacy, like they have in France. In France, it's illegal for papers to publish what politician is sleeping with whom, or to take pictures of people out with their dates at restaurants or on the street. The right to private life is very strong, and supersedes freedom on the press. Of course this means that the French are able to very easily "cheat", and do, and cannot be held legally or politically accountable for it. And that's a good thing for everybody. In the US, we shattered the Clinton Presidency over a blowjob, and we're going to see the Trump presidency shattered over hiding paramours. Men and women are never going to stop being interested in each other and having affairs, and aggressive political and police authorities will always seek to exploit that human weakness to exert power over people. The answer is France's: to criminalize government or private prying into other people's sexual behavior. Have an affair? That's between the people having the affair and their respective spouses to work out. Publish the affair? Get arrested for violating the constitutional privacy rights of the people having the affair. Attempt to use information about an affair to pressure politicians or businessmen? That's blackmail, and you go to jail. Just publicize it without attempting to influence behavior? That's assault on private life and you go to jail. Freedom of the press, and of the investigative branches of government, to pry into people's private sexual lives does not exist in France, and it's a criminal offense for the media or the police or politicians or anybody to do it. That is the sane rule. The United States is destroying itself in an insane effort to control the political arms of government by weaponizing the disclosure of human sexual weakness. The law needs to be change to criminalize the people who investigate it, track it, expose it, and seek to prosecute it. If you're going after somebody because he had an affair, YOU are the criminal, not him. That's the better rule. We'll never get there, for cultural reasons. Which means we will continue to twitch in our national misery, with an abusive government and press. Vicomte13  posted on  2018-08-22   9:24:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #2. To: Vicomte13 (#1) the Trump presidency shattered over hiding paramours. I think it is more accurate to state that this presidency will be shattered over purposeful violations of campaign finance laws (and possibly additional crimes alluded to by Mr. Cohen) Jameson  posted on  2018-08-22   9:40:41 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #3. To: Jameson (#2) (Edited) I think it is more accurate to state that this presidency will be shattered over purposeful violations of campaign finance laws (and possibly additional crimes alluded to by Mr. Cohen) And Clinton's was shattered by perjury. Not really. These are just games. Clinton perjured himself because he was put into a perjury trap over sex. Prosecutors should not have the power to ask questions about consensual sex. Campaign finance laws have no business being brought into play when it is a matter of men paying off their mistresses to be quiet. It's relevant only because the law lets it be. The law should be defanged and that be left a no- go zone of human life. It is not relevant, but it's interesting, and therefore the probing itself of that subject is what needs to be criminalized, so that men don't HAVE TO pay hush money, and the hush money they pay, on that subject, not be able to be brought into the orbit of campaign finance. Consensual sex is private. People who seek to breach that privacy should be criminals and prosecuted for it. Otherwise, our entire political system is held hostage to the human sex drive, by soulless prosecution and investigation with nothing but a power motive. THOSE people - the investigators and political operators, are the ones who need to be made into criminals by a law that makes their prying criminal activity. THAT is what needs to be attacked. Not weak men and weak women doing what is essentially harmless activity in private. Such is the wisdom of the French on the matter, and the French are right on this one. The same absolutism in defense of liberty that American gun nuts have about gun ownership and privacy rights is the absolutism the French have about private sexual matters. So here's the grand political compromise: let's give the gun nuts their gun privacy rights, and give humanity their sexual privacy rights. Expand freedom where it MATTERS, not on stupid things like pot and what bathroom people piss in or what pronoun you call them. Let people defend themselves, and let heterosexuals alone - take the state out of self-defense and sex. All of our lives will be better for it, and our government will be MUCH better for it. Vicomte13  posted on  2018-08-22   9:46:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #6. To: Vicomte13 (#3) So here's the grand political compromise: let's give the gun nuts their gun privacy rights, and give humanity their sexual privacy rights. Expand freedom where it MATTERS, not on stupid things like pot and what bathroom people piss in or what pronoun you call them. Please alert me when this happens.......... Jameson  posted on  2018-08-22   11:21:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #8. To: Jameson (#6) I have a couple of questions for you. (And in the interest of full disclosure, I will answer those questions myself.) (1) Do you have a formal partisan affiliation. (I do not. I am independent.) (2) Do you have an informal partisan affiliation? (I do, I almost invariably vote for Republicans. The exceptions are that I voted for Perot in 1992 - and knowing that that led to Clinton being elected, would do it again. And I voted for the Democratic Representative who nominated me to Annapolis for as long as he remained in office.) (3) Do you support your party's ("your party" is your formal or informal partisan affiliation) whole agenda. (I do not support major planks of the Republican platform.) (4) Do prefer any aspect of the other party's agenda over your own party's agenda. (Yes. There are some aspects of the Democrat agenda that are better, in my view, than some aspects of the Republican. Overall I vote Republican as a somewhat better option.) (5) Do you see the partisan divide as good versus evil? (No. Both sides have some good, and quite a bit of evil.) (6) If your own party gained complete control and absolutely ran the table, enacting their entire platform agenda (as it currently exists), would you be able to live peacefully (not rebel and not emigrate) with the result? (Yes, but I would consider emigrating to France, and would if the job circumstances were right.) (7) If the other party gained complete control and absolutely ran the table, enacting their entire platform agenda (as it currently exists), would you be able to live peacefully (not rebel and not emigrate) with the result? (Yes, but I would consider emigrating to France, and would if the job circumstances were right.) Your answers to those questions determine how much skin you really have in the game. I don't really have all of that much, which is why hysterical partisanship pushes me away - and makes me push back. Vicomte13  posted on  2018-08-22   11:43:26 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   Replies to Comment # 8. #9. To: Vicomte13 (#8) I have a couple of questions for you. (1) Do you have a formal partisan affiliation? (No) (2) Do you have an informal partisan affiliation? ( - no. I believe strongly in voting at every opportunity. I have made it my practice to vote for the candidate or issue(s) that would have the most positive impact overall. In my opinion. ) (3) Do you support your party's whole agenda? (No – I don’t believe that any of the elected officials actually do either) (4) Do prefer any aspect of the other party's agenda over your own party's agenda. (I can find parts of either party’s agenda with which I agree. However, because I don’t really believe either party as a whole care about adhering to a stated agenda – I consider the platforms as mostly just bullshit.) (5) Do you see the partisan divide as good versus evil? (From my perspective, the Partisan divide, or simply being a “member of a party” is only useful for those who are in charge of raising money.) (6) If your own party gained complete control and absolutely ran the table, enacting their entire platform agenda (as it currently exists), would you be able to live peacefully (not rebel and not emigrate) with the result? (7) If the other party gained complete control and absolutely ran the table, enacting their entire platform agenda (as it currently exists), would you be able to live peacefully (not rebel and not emigrate) with the result? (Because I do not pledge allegiance to either (or any) party I can answer both 6 & 7 together. I have no interest in emigrating. As for rebellion, I believe in standing up for what I believe, and I believe in sharing MY thoughts and opinions under the right circumstances. I’m not very interested in rallies or marches or protesting, but I 100% support everyone’s right to peacefully assemble. So I can and do live peacefully.) Allow me to be clear. While I am not a member of any party at this time, I once considered myself to be a republican. I have never considered myself to be a Democrat, Libertarian, Green, or Silly Party member. I believe the last Presidential election was a “worst case scenario” where whichever candidate won, we Americans would end up much worse off. I believe that of the two, our current president would have the most damaging effect, and from my perspective I was painfully correct. My current position is simple – I believe that the Republicans had the opportunity to run one of a dozen or so qualified candidates, and instead presented US with the orange menace. So for the foreseeable future, I will purposely vote for ANY candidate who can win that opposes the Republican in that race. I believe that this approach might cause a larger than usual turnover in congress, statehouse, etc. which would be desirable. Thanks for sharing your thoughts Vic, I hope I’ve answered your questions. Jameson  posted on  2018-08-22 12:32:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   End Trace Mode for Comment # 8. Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest

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