Trump's response to question about hush payments during Fox & Friends interview

[struggle4progress]

2h ago

... Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt: “Did you know about the payments?”

Trump: "Later on I knew. Later on. But you have to understand, Ainsley, what he did -- and they weren’t taken out of campaign finance, that’s the big thing. That’s a much bigger thing. Did they come out of the campaign? They didn’t come out of the campaign, they came from me. And I tweeted about it. You know, I put -- I don’t know if you know but I tweeted about the payments. But they didn’t come out of campaign. In fact, my first question when I heard about it was did they come out of the campaign because that could be a little dicey. And they didn’t come out of the campaign and that’s big. But they weren’t – that’s not a – it’s not even a campaign violation. If you look at President Obama, he had a massive campaign violation but he had a different attorney general and they viewed it a lot differently" ...

Trump contradicts Cohen: 'Hush money payments came from me'
Wed 22 Aug 2018 15.58 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/world/news-blog/live/2018/aug/22/trump-turmoil-aftermath-cohen-manafort-verdicts-live

I knew nothing about it! Anyway, it wasn't campaign money! It was my money! What about Obama?

[BSdetect]

1. Sounds so desperate.

[SummerSnow]

2. damn word salad

[gratuitous]

3. So, apparently . . .

Donald Trump is used to just writing six figure personal checks without knowing who it's to or what it's for. And then letting the whole matter completely slip his mind such that when he hears about it later, his first instinct is to ask where the money came from. Is that what Trump's saying? Because it sounds either delusional or pretty goddam stupid. Maybe both.

[struggle4progress]

5. "Who amongst us hasn't sometimes cut a very large check, only to discover much later

that it was STFU money for some pussy we grabbed?"

[jberryhill]

4. What's funny is that he does not even understand the offense in question

He thinks if it came out of the campaign's bank account, then it would be mis-use of campaign funds.

He does not understand that this is an unreported payment on behalf of the campaign - regardless of where the money came from.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Amateur Trump Gang thought nobody would notice. . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Watch out for the what-about-ism on 2008 campaign fine: NOT CRIMINAL; obscure technical issue

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211034537

[Saboburns]

8. He just confessed a crime on National TV

What he said, what is in this article, VIOLATED CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS.

THAT THE PAYMENT CAME FROM TRUMP HIMSELF FOR CAMPAIGN BUSINESS IS THE CRIME.

I'll say it again. He just confessed a crime on National TV. Because he has no idea what the law states he just fucked himself.

This segment will become as famous as the Zapruder film. We will see this clip for the rest of our lives.

[uponit7771]

9. Does it matter WHERE the funds came from just the fact they weren't reported & was used to influence

... an election?


Seems like the hiding of them makes a difference also