The FEC has been investigating whether or not former President Donald J. Trump has made hush-money payments to women prior to the 2016 election. It is being reported that that case has been dropped, yet another win for Trump that will potentially leave liberals who want the worst for him, reeling.
Trump put out a statement on his new website that he is using to get out his message now that he is not allowed on Facebook or Twitter. We understand that even with his new website, some statements on that site may or may not be allowed to be posted on Facebook and or Twitter depending on whether or not they deem them to be in violation.
This statement, however, is just his feelings about the ending of the investigation and nothing to with January 6th, or allegations of potential election fraud in 2020. The aforementioned are things that got Trump in trouble with the big tech websites in part.
Trump stated:
“The Federal Election Commission in Washington, D.C., has totally dropped the phony case against me concerning payments to women relative to the 2016 Presidential Election. It was a case built on lies from Michael Cohen, a corrupt and convicted lawyer, a lawyer in fact who was so corrupt he was sentenced to three years in jail for lying to Congress and many other things having nothing to do with me. I thank the Commission for their decision, ending this chapter of Fake News. Between two sleazebag lawyers, Michael Avenatti and Michael Cohen, we were all able to witness law and justice in our Country at its lowest!”
The FEC voted 4-1 to end the hush money investigation. It would be interesting to know who the one vote was, and why they wanted to keep the investigation ongoing, considering the fact that they failed to find that Trump or his campaign “knowingly and willfully” violated campaign finance law when his former attorney Michael Cohen paid $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep her from disclosing an alleged affair.
However, the vote of whether or not they could find any wrongdoing at all was 2-2. The Hill reported in part on the matter:
Republican Commissioners James “Trey” Trainor and Sean Cooksey voted to dismiss the matter. Republican Vice Chairman Allen Dickerson recused himself, while independent Commissioner Steven Walther did not vote.
Dickerson and Cooksey wrote in a statement that they felt Cohen had already been punished criminally and the matter was “not the best use of agency resources.”
“The public record is complete with respect to the conduct at issue in these complaints, and Mr. Cohen has been punished by the government of the United States for the conduct at issue in these matters,” they said.
In a separate statement, Democratic Commissioner Ellen Weintraub and Commission Chair Shana Broussard said the probe should have been continued after the general counsel said there was reason to believe campaign finance law was broken.
“To conclude that a payment, made 13 days before Election Day to hush up a suddenly newsworthy 10-year-old story, was not campaign-related, without so much as conducting an investigation, defies reality,” the commissioners wrote.
Time will tell what Donald Trump’s next tribulation or “witch hunt” as he often puts it may be. It is rumored that he may run for president again in 2024, possibly with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in the VP spot, despite Trump’s current ban on major social media platforms.
