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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe difference between Access Hollywood & Cohen's McDougal tape: one is a felony violation.
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Ted Lieu Retweeted Maggie Haberman
As former prosecutors, @RepKathleenRice & I called on the @FBI earlier this year to investigate the payment to silence Karen McDougal as a felony violation of campaign finance laws. Now there's evidence it wasn't just Michael Cohen. @realDonaldTrump was directly involved.
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MelissaB
(16,420 posts)dalton99a
(81,091 posts)blueseas
(11,575 posts)Lordy there is a tape!
FakeNoose
(32,356 posts)It's Christmas in July!
OnDoutside
(19,908 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)OnDoutside
(19,908 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,888 posts)I see what you did there!
OnDoutside
(19,908 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)OnDoutside
(19,908 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)I think I am going to have to google it.
OnDoutside
(19,908 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,790 posts)Talking about murder is not a crime.
Bragging about murder is not a crime, nor is it evidence.
Bragging about a specific murder with details is not a crime, it is evidence.
Bragging about sexual assault as tRump did to Billy Bush is neither a crime nor evidence.
Don't know what is on the hush-money tape, but if it includes details about transferring money and writing contracts and avoiding embarrassing the political campaign and especially if it talks about not declaring it as a campaign contribution then it is a crime of conspiracy (technically evidence, but you get my drift).
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)oxbow
(2,034 posts)Why would MC decide to tape this one conversation, out of all the shit he does for DT and all the girls he has seen?
oxbow
(2,034 posts)I know for a fact there are multiple tapes @MichaelAvenatti just told @mitchellreports
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There are more tapes: Michael Cohen had other recordings of the president in his records that were seized by the FBI, according to Rudy Giuliani & source with knowledge of Cohens tapes, per @DanaBashCNN @GloriaBorger
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NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)I'm in the office so can't follow Twitter or TV
oxbow
(2,034 posts)onit2day
(1,201 posts)Autumn
(44,765 posts)HuskyOffset
(885 posts)Thank you, that made me literally LOL.
rainin
(3,010 posts)FakeNoose
(32,356 posts)calimary
(80,700 posts)Now THAT particular "I don't care" message I'd believe.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)gademocrat7
(10,623 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)but the fascists will protect him, or he we fire Mueller and team, and do a blanket pardon thingy.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)cynatnite
(31,011 posts)Sexual assault is a felony which he'll likely never be convicted of.
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)Lindsay
(3,276 posts)"It happened before he became president, so it doesn't matter."
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)Trump is breaking all sorts of laws and has been for ages.
When will he actually have to face consequences? When Democrats take control of Congress.
C_U_L8R
(44,897 posts)And high time for republicans to get off their asses
ffr
(22,649 posts)It's conceivable that there are a treasure trove of recorded phone calls that SC Meuller has in his possession and not just from Cohen's office.
There could be hundreds of recorded tRump phone calls of him saying a lot of awful, bad or illegal things.
Most newer VOIP phone systems have the phone recording feature built in: date, time, WAV file recording. It's all logged, mostly so that callers cannot say they didn't say something over the phone. A legal or Real Estate office or financial institution (tRump's financial dealings) would be advised to use such phone capabilities. Our VOIP system does that. Would you like to hear what I said a week ago during some random conversation? It's there and I cannot delete it.
The phone recordings are usually stored for some time. Cohen wouldn't necessarily need to do anything or get involved, it would just be something his phone system would do as a normal course of business. And the FBI would know to pull those recordings and phone logs. No question about it!
Imagine the possibilities.