WSJ Reporter: New FEC filing--Trump campaign paid $93,000 to lawyer representing Trump in Stormy

[Mrs. Overall]

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Daniels case.

Link to tweet

Tweet Text:

@rebeccaballhaus
The Trump campaign paid $93,000 in the first two months of 2018 to the law firm of Charles Harder, the lawyer representing Trump in the Stormy Daniels case, per new FEC filing.
1:32 PM - 15 Apr 2018


UPDATE: Now it's at $280,000

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Thank you, Mrs. O!!
Whatta day!!

[Sienna86]

2. How can that be ethical for the attorney?

Was he representing Stormy or Trump?

[cstanleytech]

20. Huh??

[Hassin Bin Sober]

3. Wait. So now it is part of the campaign? Tsk tsk

[Mrs. Overall]

4. This is juvenile--I'm amused that Trump's two cronies in the porn star case are Pecker and Harder.

[babylonsister]

5. Hahaha! Nice catch! nt

[Wounded Bear]

14. From the firm Harder, Pecker, Didder and Ran...

[Ilsa]

15. Alfred E. Newman couldn't write it this well. nt

[Hortensis]

16. Lol. Thanks for this.

Shoulda waited for my husband to finish swallowing before passing it on, though.

[Kaleva]

29. Shouldn't it be Harder & Pecker?

[babylonsister]

6. He's forking out lots of dough to keep this quiet. Not working! nt

[blogslut]

7. Hulk Hogan's lawyer that bankrupted Gawker.

Harder represented Melania against the Daily Mail.

[FakeNoose]

24. Peter Thiel paid for the lawyers on the Hulk Hogan case

Thiel had his own axe to grind and he wanted Gawker out of business. So he hired lawyers to sue on behalf of Hulk Hogan.

[blogslut]

27. Indeed

Fuck Peter Thiel.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

8. Co-mingling personal and campaign expenses? HMMM

I think that is a bit of a legal problem for the "candidate."

Plus, if the Harder firm was working for (and paid by) the campaign he may have some lawyerly ethics problems himself.

"Curiouser and curiouser!" but then again, tRump seems to live in Wonderland.

[Jarqui]

9. Already having the firm of Charles Harder representing Trump in the Stormy Daniels

scandal might make it problematic to claim Cohen was the attorney of record for Stormy Daniels (which of course, Trump knew nothing about [/sarcasm])

Now, Stormy, McDougal and one other all had the same lawyer back then. So that stinks pretty bad.

But the really smelly one everyone seems to overlook is this one:

Woman who accused Donald Trump of raping her at 13 drops lawsuit
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/04/donald-trump-teenage-rape-accusations-lawsuit-dropped

https://www.scribd.com/doc/316341058/Donald-Trump-Jeffrey-Epstein-Rape-Lawsuit-and-Affidavits

What happened there? Major, major story ... goes poof!! How could Micheal Cohen not know about that or not be involved as Trump's fixer?

The porn star and playboy bunny got $130,000-150,000. What does a victim of rape at age 13 get? A heck of a lot more to shut up. But a NDA for a crime is illegal in terms of talking to the FBI.

Now this company Cohen set up to pay Stormy did not state as it's mission "to pay sex workers for sex and 13 year old rape victims". And the banking couldn't declare that was what it was doing (a technicality to go after Cohen). So for evidence, with warrants and subpoenas, the FBI might have traced the rape victim and had a little chat.

I never forgot how that girl pulled out of that press conference. Stormy got threatened and it's even more likely that this girl did as well. Which might be why Avenatti didn't have to publish the artist sketch of the man who threatened her because the FBI figured his ID out.

This rape victim could get the ultimate revenge - not that anything could truly compensate her for her horrible experience and psychological/emotional damages.

Strange to me how the media is not looking at this. Why?

[triron]

13. Why not send this to Rachel?

[Jarqui]

19. Good Idea & done nm

[Doodley]

10. Trump campaign paid a woman Trump says he didn't sleep with? Why?

[procon]

11. So, Cohen wasn't actually working for Trump as a lawyer?

If he was subcontracting out what would seem to be a fairly routine job, does Cohen still have his license?

[Achilleaze]

12. republican family-values role model Dirty Donny* sure is...

a sleazebag.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[yortsed snacilbuper]

17. Kick

[CatMor]

18. His followers are paying his attorney.....

out of campaign funds for something that happened before he stole the election. They should be mighty angry.

[erronis]

21. "They should be mighty angry" - "Should" would apply to rational thoughts/rational people.

Methinks some types of people like lowlifes like dump since they can feel like they're part of the same crowd.

Apparently we like mobster films and "Ocean-##" ones - is that the same glorification?

If I'm down in the valleys of Appalachia (or wherever) and my environment has been raped-to-shit by somebody, wouldn't I want to have a mean hero - gun-toting big-talking plain-speaking hero? Obviously not some educated negro but a self-made billionaire who knows how to tell a good story.

[Botany]

22. When and where does all this corruption stop?

But then again what about HRC's emails?

[kpete]

23. caught with his pants down

[Cryptoad]

25. Snowden still have than extra bedroom in his beach house that,,,,

Cohen live in until his beach house is ready ?

[mr_lebowski]

26. Is it REALLY LEGAL for a POTUS to use campaign funds to fund 'hush money'

Paid off to people the candidate slept with years before they even ran?

Cause if it is ... that is one rather vulgar loophole that's in serious need of CLOSING, like YESTERDAY.

$100 says that if ANY Dem POTUS had done something like that while in office, HOLY SHIT would it become a firing offense, if not an outright felony, in the blink of an eye ...

[trof]

28. And then Donnie said "WOW, GUYS! Looka THIS! There's more money here...

in this election thing than there is in casinos!
I can pay off all the hookers and just charge it to the campaign.
TAX FREE!!!
This is BYU-TEE-FUL!"

[Mrs. Overall]

30. UPDATE: Trump campaign paid 280,000 to two firms representing Trump against Stormy Daniels

Link to tweet

Tweet Text:
NEW: 8,700 page @FEC filing reveals Trump's 2020 re-election campaign paid $280,000 in legal fees to two law firms representing Trump & his personal attorney Michael Cohen against Stormy Daniels https://wapo.st/2GYspVs