Watching former National Enquirer executive Jerry George on MSNBC just now, a lightbulb went off over my head: Isn't the National Enquirer guilty of violating the campaign finance act? I'm not talking about the payoff to Karen McDougal. The extremely-biased coverage provided to Trump was itself a thing of value -- great value.
Of course, Republicans would argue that plenty of media outlets show bias, including liberal outlets like MSNBC. But I'm not just talking about bias. I'm talking about interfacing directly with the campaign. Cohen was the intermediary between the campaign and AMI, and Kushner fulfilled that role later. If Cohen and Pecker testify that AMI and the National Enquirer were coordinating, were working together, then isn't that a corporate donation?
Brietbart would seem another promising area of inquiry. We were told that Steve Bannon formally severed himself from that operation, but some reports indicated that Bannon still called the shots.
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The NE is already in legal jeopardy, for the same stuff Cohen did. They avoided indictment by fessing up and cooborating Cohen's story.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-trump-advisor-roger-stone-admits-spreading-lies-online-lawsuit-n949151
During the presidential campaign I felt the matter that was most likely to bring Donald Trump down was the case against his Foundation for soliciting donations in New York State as a charity when it wasn't actually registered as a charity. Even some of the dog-eat-dog retards who voted for Trump can appreciate that that is not just fraud but disgustingly anti-social fraud. Money donated to a scam that is masquerading as a "charity" is money that doesn't get donated to a REAL charity. His actions were similar to stealing charity collection boxes full of money. And he's got no power of pardon in state cases. He must have pulled on a heavy string to get the case shelved during the election, but then it's not as if he doesn't have connections in New York. But he doesn't own either the state or the city. Lock him up.
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