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spanone

(135,886 posts)
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 06:12 PM Jul 2019

New Charges in Stormy Daniels Hush-Money Inquiry Are Unlikely, Prosecutors Signal

Color me fucking shocked....not. He's going to get away with everything.

The outcome appeared to be a legal victory for President Trump, but documents also offered new details of his involvement in the case.

Federal prosecutors signaled in a court document released on Thursday that it was unlikely they would file additional charges in the hush-money investigation that ensnared members of Donald J. Trump’s inner circle and threatened to derail his presidency.

In the document, the prosecutors said they had “effectively concluded” their inquiry, which centered on payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to buy the silence of two women who said they had had affairs with Mr. Trump.

The outcome appears to be a legal victory for Mr. Trump, who prosecutors implicated last year in the campaign finance violations. He had denied the affairs and any wrongdoing, but his aides considered the inquiry a greater threat than even the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the election.

At the same time, other newly released documents from the investigation offered the government’s most detailed account yet of Mr. Trump’s involvement, showing that he was in close touch with Michael D. Cohen, the president’s former lawyer and fixer, while the payments were being arranged.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/nyregion/stormy-daniels-michael-cohen-documents.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
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New Charges in Stormy Daniels Hush-Money Inquiry Are Unlikely, Prosecutors Signal (Original Post) spanone Jul 2019 OP
Until Trump is voted out C_U_L8R Jul 2019 #1
So election rigging is now legal SHRED Jul 2019 #2
Seems that way. spanone Jul 2019 #3
+1 uponit7771 Jul 2019 #4

spanone

(135,886 posts)
3. Seems that way.
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 09:01 PM
Jul 2019

If you own the attorney general and the senate, you rule like a king. Crimes don't apply to you or your family.

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