Why There Was No Crime
Committed by Trump
Per Bradley Smith, former head of the Federal Election Commission.... So he's probably a top expert, if not the leading expert, on election law and campaign contributions but was not allowed to testify by the judge.
"...The payment made to adult performer Stephanie Clifford, known better by her stage name, Stormy Daniels, by ex-lawyer Michael Cohen on Oct. 27, 2016, was not reported as a campaign expenditure, but even if it was, it would not have been reported until weeks after the election, in a Dec. 8, 2016, Post-Election Report, Mr. Smith explained.
“So the prosecution’s theory, that Trump wanted to hide the expenditure until after the election, MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL,” Mr. Smith wrote.....FECA allows a candidate to contribute an unlimited amount to his own campaign, Mr. Smith argued in a separate thread, meaning that if the $130,000 had been reimbursed IT COULD NOT HAVE VIOLATED CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAW. He explained the official test of a campaign contribution was whether that money would have been spent if there was no campaign...“I’m not a criminal law guy. But I do know campaign finance law. The failure to properly instruct the jury on the law would seem to be reversible error,” he wrote.
“There was NO ILLEGAL CONTRIBUTION OR EXPENDITURE MADE, and NO FAILURE TO REPORT an expenditure. And even if we assume otherwise, the prosecution’s theory MADE NO SENSE, suggesting no criminal intent....”
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