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(58,724 posts)Donald J. Trump
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Mr. Cohen, an attorney, received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign, from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA. These agreements are.....
5:46 AM - May 3, 2018
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...very common among celebrities and people of wealth. In this case it is in full force and effect and will be used in Arbitration for damages against Ms. Clifford (Daniels). The agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair,......
5:54 AM - May 3, 2018
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...despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no affair. Prior to its violation by Ms. Clifford and her attorney, this was a private agreement. Money from the campaign, or campaign contributions, played no roll in this transaction.
6:00 AM - May 3, 2018
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demmiblue
(36,914 posts)writes3000
(4,734 posts)malaise
(269,278 posts)Now I'm 'roling' on the floor laughing
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)demmiblue
(36,914 posts)malaise
(269,278 posts)Glorfindel
(9,745 posts)malaise
(269,278 posts)You know all those clown cars with them before the election were bang on target.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)I take it that you were reading the tweets critically, looking for tell-tale mis-spellings that would indicate it was twitler doing the tweeting.
Possible but the grammar is not the Con
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Clearly working to serve a discernable purpose.
Dead giveaways.
No way it came from the nightmarish hellscape that is shitler's brain.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Put the lid back on. Now Cohen has a client and payment.
Too bad the client publicly told the press he didn't make the payment.
the word is checkmate - the Con has conned himself.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)karynnj
(59,510 posts)consider his comments truth.
Interesting here that he is claiming the payment was to stop untrue accusations right before the election. This absolutely does not ring true because if this were a political dirty trick -- one would have expected Daniels to immediately have both her story AND proof of the payment put out before the election. The payment would actually give weight to the claims. (The consequence for breaking the deal was money )
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)he never settles anything out of court, always goes to court. But an NDA is an out of court settlement.
And agreed that his sheisskopf fans will always believe anything unlikely coming out of dRumpfenfuhrer's pie-hole.
He lied to them for years about Obama's birth certificate, then when he had to admit he'd been lying, he lied to them said 'Hillary started the rumor, and I ended it'. And they went from being furious about how Obama was a foreigner, to pretending they and their hero were always fighting against the rumor.
Mentally, in a split second, they went from ''he was lying to us all along, and making us violently mad'', to ''haw haw, we always knew he was lying, and we were in on the lie with him. He sure told you, and shut you up with an 8 word bumper sticker come-back. You libruls."
Mentally diseased, pathological doublethink.
nature-lover
(1,471 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)is extensive as far as Twitter goes.
malaise
(269,278 posts)ROLL
malaise
(269,278 posts)Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! We peons can't understand this. He sure is arrogant in the middle of deep shit.
janx
(24,128 posts)get any more comical, farcical, more bizarre?!
malaise
(269,278 posts)and low-life scumbags, who knows
janx
(24,128 posts)was going to happen re Trump, but I was thinking tragedy rather than farce.
Cue the Frank Sinatra music. These clowns are going to bring shit down so fast that we'll have an even tougher time keeping up with all of it.
I wonder what Mueller and Comey are thinking right now...?
shraby
(21,946 posts)Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)He's been like that for 7 decades. He'll grow out of it soon. Surely.
mercuryblues
(14,556 posts)Ivanka? Kelly Ann?
He is in such a fury he can't even tweet for himself.
Gu911ni was trying to frame this as a simple campaign violation. That trump knew about the agreement, therefore the NDA is valid and if she speaks he will sue her. In the process he exposed trump's lies, alluded to the payment to being "funneled" through a 3rd party to hide his involvement, and possible felonies.
What does the Constitution say about impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors?
Yup G sure is going to end this in 2 weeks, buy admitting everything.
I wonder how trump's newest lawyer feels about this?
Takket
(21,702 posts)1. Didnt sign it.
And 2. Said he knows nothing about it.
And.... that is not how retainers work. A retainer basically keeps a lawyer on staff for you in case legal issues arise. It is not a slush fund from which payments to other parties can be made. If he is sending Cohen payments to be applied to the NDA, that is not a retainer.
malaise
(269,278 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,254 posts)He's on a roll!