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1. Some time ago, I wrote one of the most important pieces of information in the Michael Cohen filings was the $50,000 given to him by the Trump Org as reimbursement for IT campaign expenses. Soon after, I heard, but could not confirm, this was connected to Jerry Falwell Jr. ...
2...the WSJ confirmed it and has the story today that Cohen paid money to Falwell's IT guy to rig online polling. So now that all the info is out there, time to discuss the significance. If you look at all of the pieces of information, the one hand you do not see involved is....
3....that of the Trump campaign itself. Cohen does the work, Trump Org pays the money, the payment of $13,000 in cash goes to Falwell's guy, the other $37,000 is...somewhere. Start with, there is NEVER an instance where a campaign pays large sums of cash for a legal act.....
4...cash leaves no trail. That is why it was used to finance the Watergate burglars. The checks cut by the Trump Organization to Cohen on behalf of the campaign - was TO serving as the slush fund for the Trump Campaign? If so, LOTS of expenditures connected to the company....
5...should have been reported as campaign-share expenditures. But there is no reason anyone would do a direct payment like that - TO to Cohen. And there is no reason why anyone would do a 3-step payment - TO to Cohen (converted to cash) to Falwell's guy. The way a lawful....
6...payment would have been done is check from campaign to Falwell's guy (if it was a legitimate expense.) All the go-betweens are only used for concealment. This is standard, seen-it-a-million-times, clumsy white-collar money laundering to hide an illicit act. The act....
7...here was to rig online polls, according to Cohen. Falwell's guy also engages in search engine optimization, so I have a feeling there will be more turning up about what was done here. Of course the big question now remaining is what happened to the other $37,000. What we do..
8...know is this: The Trump Organization gave Michael Cohen money to engage in illicit and possibly illegal behavior for campaign purposes. One of the checks was the Stormy Daniels payment. There are a few more suspicious elements of that payment (why would the total amount....
9...have been rounded up if this was not a knowingly illicit act? In other words, if there was to be a payment to Daniels, why not just have the Trump Org pay it rather than Trump Org to Cohen to Daniels, reimbursed as a campaign expense, then tens of thousands added to round...
10...up reimbursement for tax purposes, since Cohen would have to report on his taxes the reimbursement as not an expense reimbursement but as income). There is a LOT of conniving going on here, a LOT of the procedures of money transfer showing knowledge of guilt. People don't...
11...work so hard to cover payments for a lawful act.
So, Congress must ask - who told Cohen to pay cash to Falwell's guy? Where is the other $37,000? What other monies was the Trump Org paying on behalf of campaign? And how do they explain disguising expense reimbursement...
So, Congress must ask - who told Cohen to pay cash to Falwell's guy? Where is the other $37,000? What other monies was the Trump Org paying on behalf of campaign? And how do they explain disguising expense reimbursement...
12...as compensation to Cohen. Again, that one fact - upping the reimbursement of the Stormy Daniels payoff to account for taxes since Cohen was reporting reimbursement as income - is key to establishing guilty mind of everyone involved - potentially Trump himself.
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