Our watchdog group filed a complaint with the Department of Justice and the Office of Government Ethics on Thursday, asking officials to investigate whether Giuliani’s disclosures show that Trump violated federal ethics laws or laws against making false statements. The Ethics in Government Act requires filers of public financial disclosure forms, including the president, to disclose any liabilities worth more than $10,000. Giuliani repeatedly acknowledged on Wednesday and Thursday that Trump owed Cohen $250,000, accounting for the $130,000 payment to Daniels and associated taxes and fees. But Trump’s public financial disclosure report last summer didn’t list any debts to Cohen. A knowing failure to report such a debt constitutes a federal crime, and failure to properly report that liability can result in penalties up to $50,000, as well as imprisonment. Moreover, lying on a financial disclosure report can be the basis for federal false statements charges under 18 USC 1001.
...thanks to Giuliani’s catastrophic performance, yet another fresh start for Trump’s legal team has been squandered. The president and his attorneys are running empty on credibility. Replenishing it becomes impossible at some point after repeated miscues. If prosecutors, judges and even the American people no longer believe what Trump and his lawyers say is true, they will assume the worst. Contrasted with the methodical and straightforward approach of the Department of Justice, this is beginning to feel like a war that the president is not going to win.
Poster Comment:
But seriously, this is all an evil plan put in motion by Soros, the Clintons and some Kenyan guy....
No, really!
They're all lying!!!!
#1: Justified To: Jameson (#0)
See here is your problem we do not give a shit about stupid shit!
Trump at his worst will be a billion times more honest than the regressives.
Trump show the world who your piles of shit really are and you do all the work!!!
Keep up the good work America needs to know who its enemies are!
Justified posted on 2018-05-04 08:30:01 Reply Private Reply
#2: Jameson To: Justified (#1)
How about you Dr.?
Do you believe what SS45 spews?
Jameson posted on 2018-05-04 08:42:30 Reply Private Reply
#3: Jameson To: Justified (#1)
You elected "Stupid Shit"
SS45!!
Jameson posted on 2018-05-04 08:48:53 Reply Private Reply
#4: misterwhite To: Jameson (#0)
misterwhite posted on 2018-05-04 08:54:17 Reply Private Reply
#5: misterwhite To: Jameson (#0)
And what does that have to do with Russian interference in the election?"
FISHING EXPEDITION!
misterwhite posted on 2018-05-04 08:55:56 Reply Private Reply
#6: Justified To: Jameson (#3)
You would have been happy to get Clinton the worlds super crook!
Give me a billion trumps over one Clinton any day!!
Justified posted on 2018-05-04 09:03:15 Reply Private Reply
#7: Justified To: Jameson (#2)
Gee Trump may have lied about an affair and an extortion payment compared to MSM and Regressives who never tells the truth? Let me think about that?/s
Justified posted on 2018-05-04 09:05:33 Reply Private Reply
#8: Jameson To: misterwhite (#4)
According to Rudy-Patootie and SS45, the "retainer" was used to repay the hush money to Cohen....
and
The Feds already have the records supporting this explanation from Cohen's files....
Jameson posted on 2018-05-04 09:06:22 Reply Private Reply
#9: Jameson To: misterwhite (#5)
Actually, nothing....which is why Mr. Mueller referred this matter to the Manhattan Federal Court.
Jameson posted on 2018-05-04 09:09:32 Reply Private Reply
#10: Justified To: Jameson (#9)
Exactly. A fishing expedition to find something, anything on Trump to take him down. This is and has been unconstitutional once Clinton's and DNC fake document was illegally used to get warrants.
I hope Trump crushes the FBI and DOJ heads for their unconstitutional acts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Justified posted on 2018-05-04 09:20:20 Reply Private Reply
#11: misterwhite To: Jameson (#8)
I'm sure it was. That and many other things, all of them (supposedly) private. At $35,000 per month, Trump is paying his attorney $420,000 per year, every year. The porn star's piece was $130,000. Gosh, maybe we need to audit his attorney, huh?
This was Trump's money given as a retainer to his attorney, to be used at his attorney's discretion.
misterwhite posted on 2018-05-04 09:21:41 Reply Private Reply
#12: misterwhite To: Jameson (#9)
Because he had evidence of a crime? What crime? What evidence?
misterwhite posted on 2018-05-04 09:23:48 Reply Private Reply
#13: Jameson To: Justified (#10)
Don't be dense...
....which is why Mr. Mueller referred this matter to the Manhattan Federal Court.
Mr. Mueller has nothing to do with the investigation into Mr. Cohen's "activities"
Jameson posted on 2018-05-04 09:27:30 Reply Private Reply
#14: Jameson To: misterwhite (#11)
You're smart Frito!
That's exactly why the FBI raided his offices......
Jameson posted on 2018-05-04 09:28:40 Reply Private Reply
#15: Jameson To: misterwhite (#12)
Take it easy Mr. Instant gratification....
You'll find out when the indictments are served.
Jameson posted on 2018-05-04 09:30:24 Reply Private Reply
#16: misterwhite To: Jameson (#15)
No. We'll find out if and when the investigators find something. Could be years.
This is a witch hunt which meanders all over the place like a Roomba, looking for a crime to sweep up. Except the Roomba has more intelligence.
misterwhite posted on 2018-05-04 09:39:49 Reply Private Reply
#17: misterwhite To: Jameson (#14)
Attorney-client privilege? What attorney-client privilege?
misterwhite posted on 2018-05-04 09:40:59 Reply Private Reply
#18: Jameson To: misterwhite (#17)
Are you actually copying and pasting from SS45's tweets??
According to the crime-fraud exception to the privilege, a client's communication to their attorney isn't privileged if made with the intention of committing or covering up a crime or fraud.
Jameson posted on 2018-05-04 09:51:51 Reply Private Reply
#19: sneakypete To: Jameson (#3)
And that's why you hate him. You wanted Conniving Cunt elected,and he beat your queen.
Or at least one of your queens. Being a leftie Clintroid,you no doubt know a bunch of guys that are queens.
sneakypete posted on 2018-05-04 10:10:53 Reply Private Reply
#20: Jameson To: sneakypete (#19)
Yeah, not really....however I was willing to vote for anyone except SS45
Jameson posted on 2018-05-04 10:36:38 Reply Private Reply
#21: no gnu taxes To: Jameson (#0)
It was a payment for services rendered.
no gnu taxes posted on 2018-05-04 10:48:33 Reply Private Reply
#22: Jameson To: no gnu taxes (#21)
You bet!
Jameson posted on 2018-05-04 10:59:31 Reply Private Reply
#23: Justified To: Jameson (#13)
Once Comey/Mueller/Rosenstein found that the so called document was paid for by Clintons and not one fact could be verified they should have ended the investigation at that moment. Then jumped into the Clinton Obama scandal of Email server and the treasonous pay to play scam. But I see you would rather read about Stormy the porn ho than to worry about the illegal acts by the Regressives.
Justified posted on 2018-05-04 11:09:39 Reply Private Reply
#24: Justified To: Jameson (#20)
I have to hear this reasoning?
Trump was not my first choice but he has done more in one year than both bush's did in 12. That's fighting MSM and his own party. I'm thinking Trump deserves a place on Mount Rushmore!!
Justified posted on 2018-05-04 11:13:18 Reply Private Reply
#25: goldilucky To: Justified (#24)
Ditto here!
goldilucky posted on 2018-05-04 11:38:46 Reply Private Reply
#26: misterwhite To: Jameson (#18)
How would anyone know there was "intention of committing or covering up a crime or fraud" without breaching the attorney-client privilege?
It's a fishing expedition -- first look at the privileged communication, then determine if a crime has been committed.
Let's search your house for illegal guns, porn, drugs, whatever. Then if we find something, we'll get a warrant. Sound good?
misterwhite posted on 2018-05-04 13:17:17 Reply Private Reply
#27: Jameson To: misterwhite (#26)
Please.....
Release your grip on the talking points memo....
A federal judge signed the search warrants for this, knowing that there was a line that must not be crossed. The FBI was well aware of this line as well.
Any privileged correspondence will be excluded.
Try also to understand, the federal prosecutor already knows what he's looking for, it's not fishing, it's verification.
Jameson posted on 2018-05-04 13:31:46 Reply Private Reply
#28: misterwhite To: Jameson (#27)
Unless it's leaked.
"Try also to understand, the federal prosecutor already knows what he's looking for"
Yes, he's looking for evidence of a crime, any crime, by combing through privileged communication between Trump and his lawyer.
The only possible crime here would be if campaign funds were used to pay off the porn star. Does the federal prosecutor have proof of that? Or is he trying to find it? I call that a fishing expedition.
misterwhite posted on 2018-05-04 13:45:12 Reply Private Reply
#29: no gnu taxes To: misterwhite (#28)
It is extremely unlikely it happened.
Trump is fighting his own party, the media, and the leftists now.
no gnu taxes posted on 2018-05-04 13:51:16 Reply Private Reply
#30: Tooconservative To: Jameson (#0)
But does anyone give a shite (other than the #FakeNews libmedia and their NeverTrumper allies)? Nope.
FreeBeacon:
But a whopping 73 percent of voters said they do not believe the affair is an "important issue." That includes a majority of Democrats (51 percent), independents (79 percent) and Republicans (90 percent).
Quinnipiac also asked about the $130,000 payment that Trump attorney Michael Cohen made to Daniels in 2016, which Daniels alleges was in exchange for her silence. A majority of voters, 59 percent, said they believe Trump knew about the payment, compared to 24 percent who said they believe Trump was not aware.
But once again, the poll found that voters tended not to care whether or not the president knew about the payment. Fifty-nine percent of voters said whether or not Trump knew about the payment is not an important issue.
"Yes he did it. No we don't care. A big yawn from voters on Stormy Daniels, President Trump, and the payoff," summarized Quinnipiac University poll assistant director Tim Malloy.
Tooconservative posted on 2018-05-04 17:12:21 Reply Private Reply
#31: Jameson To: Tooconservative (#30)
Yeah,
it's early
wait until this fall.
Jameson posted on 2018-05-05 10:15:02 Reply Private Reply
#32: Tooconservative To: Jameson (#31)
Sometimes the public prefers even a flawed prez to a cabal of libmedia and Congresscritters of various stripes.
Tooconservative posted on 2018-05-05 11:14:37 Reply Private Reply