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*COHEN SAYS HE VIOLATED CAMPAIGN LAW AT DIRECTION OF CANDIDATE (Original Post) sunonmars Aug 2018 OP
August 21, 2018....I love you. Will you marry me? Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2018 #1
+1 fleur-de-lisa Aug 2018 #4
Enjoy your wedding day!!!! SallyHemmings Aug 2018 #9
One down side - today Michael Flynn's sentencing was postponed. I wanted the TRIFECTA! George II Aug 2018 #22
Omarosa is releasing another tape on Tweety's hour tonight. Grammy23 Aug 2018 #23
I've been canvassing MSM online re manafort/cohen... didn't read anything about flynn's RestoreAmerica2020 Aug 2018 #45
Yes, it was on CNN around noon. It was at Mueller's request. I think he anticipated... George II Aug 2018 #46
Thanks, missed it somehow... RestoreAmerica2020 Aug 2018 #49
Mueller's day of legal shock and awe. And Shitler has another Nazi gathering tonight...karma. Fred Sanders Aug 2018 #50
Rudy said he wanted this wrapped up by September 1. That just might happen! George II Aug 2018 #51
Duncan Hunter mgardener Aug 2018 #66
That sick and twisted, but I love it. ffr Aug 2018 #27
I'm saving myself volstork Aug 2018 #33
LOL. Me, too! Can this be a group marriage? pnwmom Aug 2018 #36
Me too! Me too! Totally Tunsie Aug 2018 #52
👰🤵👰🤵👰🤵👰🤵👰, etc. sprinkleeninow Aug 2018 #53
Wow, man! Groovy! A communal wedding! Congratulations to US! Honeycombe8 Aug 2018 #64
Hawaii becomes a state August 21, 1959! Cha Aug 2018 #72
LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! lapfog_1 Aug 2018 #2
hold on SCantiGOP Aug 2018 #57
LOL!!!! Thirties Child Aug 2018 #60
FAKE NEWS scarytomcat Aug 2018 #61
LOL! fleur-de-lisa Aug 2018 #3
Bloomberg reporting that Cohen admitted acting to influence an election Awsi Dooger Aug 2018 #5
There are two possibilities (45 & Pence) but he was not Pence's lawyer. LonePirate Aug 2018 #13
Yes, he is on tape discussing it w Minority President and no tape with Pence. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2018 #42
kicking for the love blogslut Aug 2018 #6
Looks like the campaign bus just backed over the candidate C_U_L8R Aug 2018 #7
Woo f*cking hoo! This day keeps getting better and better. Mrs. Overall Aug 2018 #8
+1000 Old Vet Aug 2018 #10
Holy shite! mcar Aug 2018 #11
Avenatti is the happiest man on earth. He is out for blood. nolabear Aug 2018 #12
RED HATTER RESPONSE: "Clinton Directed Cohen To Violate Campaign Law !!!" uponit7771 Aug 2018 #14
Are they going to spin this and say Hillary made him do it? Mrs. Overall Aug 2018 #15
Kick dalton99a Aug 2018 #16
he's worked on so many campaigns... qazplm135 Aug 2018 #17
EXACTLY! Duppers Aug 2018 #20
He may finally start to drink. Mira Aug 2018 #21
Bet he just doubles up on his pharmaceuticals Duppers Aug 2018 #26
I don't think you can take enough! Ha! nt SWBTATTReg Aug 2018 #30
Can you say "co-conspirator"? Because the BBC report just did (nt) muriel_volestrangler Aug 2018 #18
The two payments were for 150K and 130K...exact amounts paid to two certain women...to Fred Sanders Aug 2018 #67
Trump, unindicted co-conspirator???? workinclasszero Aug 2018 #19
Well, he was the Fixer AllyCat Aug 2018 #62
Yeah I think his crime boss workinclasszero Aug 2018 #65
Lock Trump up! Johnny2X2X Aug 2018 #24
Hint. tЯump knows now that the prosecution has Cohen's testimony to that fact. ffr Aug 2018 #25
It would not be safe to walk the streets tonight if this was about a D prez. Eliot Rosewater Aug 2018 #28
Sadly, you're probably right...nt SWBTATTReg Aug 2018 #34
Cons simply wouldn't tolerate a dem doing ONE of the THOUSANDS of crimes Eliot Rosewater Aug 2018 #35
Really. And they accused HRC and Obama of all kinds of crap, and not one crime ... SWBTATTReg Aug 2018 #39
Not one, not ever. Eliot Rosewater Aug 2018 #40
August 21, 2018 5:21 pm Michael Cohen pleads guilty, says ... In_The_Wind Aug 2018 #29
it's a mystery. can America figure it out? rurallib Aug 2018 #31
I don't know. Who are the likely suspects? Hillary? (sarcasm) still_one Aug 2018 #32
It was JEB! JEB! made me do it. justhanginon Aug 2018 #38
I didn't know Cohen was working for Obama in 2012 ProudLib72 Aug 2018 #37
20 questions, i'll start KayF Aug 2018 #41
that is huge!!!! gopiscrap Aug 2018 #43
"You have to be trusted IncaRoads Aug 2018 #44
and then moving in silently downwind and out of sight ... mr_lebowski Aug 2018 #54
Draaaaaaaaaaaggggggged down IncaRoads Aug 2018 #70
And now ... a word from herself FakeNoose Aug 2018 #47
And now we know why Trump pardoned D'souza Raven123 Aug 2018 #48
This is really bad for Trump. B2G Aug 2018 #55
True. Your personal lawyer pleads guilty to misusing campaign funds...from YOU, the client! Fred Sanders Aug 2018 #63
From my twitter feed Gothmog Aug 2018 #56
Boink. Scurrilous Aug 2018 #58
Didn't Avenatti say zentrum Aug 2018 #59
I'm guessing the candidate wasn't Mike Pence..... n/t Julian Englis Aug 2018 #68
I'm just a tad disappointed proglib217 Aug 2018 #71
A toast of Trump Vodka to each and every one of you - all around! On the house! bucolic_frolic Aug 2018 #69

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)
1. August 21, 2018....I love you. Will you marry me?
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 04:46 PM
Aug 2018

Seriously, if I could marry a day, this would be the day to marry.

Grammy23

(5,810 posts)
23. Omarosa is releasing another tape on Tweety's hour tonight.
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 05:33 PM
Aug 2018

Maybe it will be the proverbial icing on the cake. 🍰🎂🥂

RestoreAmerica2020

(3,435 posts)
45. I've been canvassing MSM online re manafort/cohen... didn't read anything about flynn's
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 06:00 PM
Aug 2018

...sentencing--was it rescheduled?

George II

(67,782 posts)
46. Yes, it was on CNN around noon. It was at Mueller's request. I think he anticipated...
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 06:02 PM
Aug 2018

...everything that was going to happen this afternoon and figured he can squeeze a little bit more out of that lemon.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
50. Mueller's day of legal shock and awe. And Shitler has another Nazi gathering tonight...karma.
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 06:32 PM
Aug 2018

Sentencing Flynn today with full revelation to the already shocked public of what Flynn also did would have been....just too much joy packed into just a few hours...I get it.

lapfog_1

(29,205 posts)
2. LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 04:46 PM
Aug 2018

if he was elected to any other office, they would be perp walking him right now.

 

Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)
5. Bloomberg reporting that Cohen admitted acting to influence an election
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 04:48 PM
Aug 2018

At the direction of the unnamed candidate

They used that phrase and wording several times in recent minutes. I haven't seen it elsewhere

Mira

(22,380 posts)
21. He may finally start to drink.
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 05:27 PM
Aug 2018

- his tweets would then be even more entertaining - half the time I think he acts drunk as things are now.

Duppers

(28,125 posts)
26. Bet he just doubles up on his pharmaceuticals
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 05:35 PM
Aug 2018

Which he's not handling well now. This is going to get even more "interesting" - and <gulp> dangerous.

When they eventually come to lock him up, it will be in a padded cell.


Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
67. The two payments were for 150K and 130K...exact amounts paid to two certain women...to
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 07:21 PM
Aug 2018

protect Shitler before the election....

"In a startling admission, Cohen pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws at the “direction of a candidate for federal office.” Those charges concerned two payments — one for $150,000 and another for $130,000 — which were made to two unnamed individuals who Cohen said had information that was “damaging” to the unnamed candidate."

Soon to be indicted conspirator...have to get the underling before the boss, that is how mob takedowns are done.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
19. Trump, unindicted co-conspirator????
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 05:21 PM
Aug 2018
Cohen said in a plea deal that "in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office" he kept information that would have been harmful to the candidate and the campaign from becoming public.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/08/21/politics/michael-cohen-plea-deal-talks/index.html?__twitter_impression=true
 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
65. Yeah I think his crime boss
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 07:18 PM
Aug 2018

should answer a few questions about that in front of a House committee of course.

Johnny2X2X

(19,066 posts)
24. Lock Trump up!
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 05:33 PM
Aug 2018

This charge in open court leaves prosecutors no choice but to charge Trump, if he wasn’t President.

ffr

(22,670 posts)
25. Hint. tЯump knows now that the prosecution has Cohen's testimony to that fact.
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 05:34 PM
Aug 2018

How did 63 million American rubes get this so wrong in the beginning? One can only wonder.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
35. Cons simply wouldn't tolerate a dem doing ONE of the THOUSANDS of crimes
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 05:40 PM
Aug 2018

rump and team have done, not ONE.

SWBTATTReg

(22,130 posts)
39. Really. And they accused HRC and Obama of all kinds of crap, and not one crime ...
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 05:43 PM
Aug 2018

found among the two, not 1 thing! Hypocrites...

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)
29. August 21, 2018 5:21 pm Michael Cohen pleads guilty, says ...
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 05:36 PM
Aug 2018
https://globalnews.ca/news/4399826/michael-cohen-plea-deal/?utm_source=notification/

August 21, 2018 1:28 pm Updated: August 21, 2018 5:21 pm

Michael Cohen pleads guilty, says Trump ordered payments with ‘purpose of influencing election’

IncaRoads

(97 posts)
44. "You have to be trusted
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 05:53 PM
Aug 2018

By the people that you lie to
So that when they turn their backs on you
You'll get the chance to put the knife in"

Roger Waters from Pink Floyd's "Dogs"

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
54. and then moving in silently downwind and out of sight ...
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 06:44 PM
Aug 2018

you've to strike when the moment is right ... without thinking ...

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
63. True. Your personal lawyer pleads guilty to misusing campaign funds...from YOU, the client!
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 07:11 PM
Aug 2018

Next up on the judicial chopping block...the client.

 

proglib217

(88 posts)
71. I'm just a tad disappointed
Wed Aug 22, 2018, 03:58 AM
Aug 2018

I guess I'm alone. I would have much preferred to have had Cohen name "Donald Trump" by name, as opposed to referring to having been directed by "a candidate for federal office".

bucolic_frolic

(43,176 posts)
69. A toast of Trump Vodka to each and every one of you - all around! On the house!
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 07:47 PM
Aug 2018

Ваше здоровье! – [vashee zda-ró-vye] – Your health!

It's been a very fine day indeed

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