Michael Cohen Says He Paid Off Woman Who Claimed Affair at Trump's Direction. (NYT)

[elleng]

'Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former fixer, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to campaign finance and other charges. He made the extraordinary admission that he paid a pornographic actress “at the direction of the candidate,” referring to Mr. Trump, to secure her silence about an affair she said she had with Mr. Trump.

Mr. Cohen told a judge in United States District Court in Manhattan that the payment was “for the principal purpose of influencing the election” for president in 2016.

Mr. Cohen also pleaded guilty to multiple counts of tax evasion and bank fraud, bringing to a close a monthslong investigation by Manhattan federal prosecutors who examined his personal business dealings and his role in helping to arrange financial deals with women connected to Mr. Trump.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/nyregion/michael-cohen-plea-deal-trump.html?

[Botany]

1. And did the money that Trump used to to pay back Cohen come from campaign funds?

[beachbum bob]

2. Conspiracy, FEC violations, lying to federal authorities...

Probably tax fraud

[VMA131Marine]

3. Doesn't this now directly implicate Trump in a campaign finance violation?

including a conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws?

This would be enough to get any previous President impeached, convicted, and removed from office.

[Skraxx]

4. Yes, Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator

[elleng]

5. MSNBC panel thinks so,

one suggested 'unindicted co-conspirator' I think.

[brooklynite]

6. Question: did he acknowledge that the affair occurred?

[elleng]

7. Dunno; facts to be absorbed later!