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The twice divorced, thrice married, porn star raw dogging dumpster fire of an #IMPEACHED "president" is basically elevating himself to Jesus status. Thing is, Jesus was a dark Jewish dude. You are a blasphemous, Burnt Umber Beelzebub. You are also demented. Resign. #IMPOTUS

— Lesley Abravanel @lesleyabravanel

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Lmao Donnie you know it doesnt make your manhood any bigger lol but I doubt Melania cares lol #MoscowMitch #DraftDodgerDonnie #TrumptardImpeachment #CadetBoneSpurs #Trumptard 

— Antonio Parracho @ParrachoAntonio

FBI: Cohen Called Trump and Hope Hicks During Stormy Daniels Deal

The minute-by-minute story of how the president’s former fixer silenced two women and possibly swung the election, according to the feds.

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Michael Cohen bought the silence of Stormy Daniels after a flurry of phone calls with Donald Trump, Hope Hicks, and executives at AMI in the heat of the 2016 election, according to newly unsealed FBI documents.

Federal prosecutors on Thursday released hundreds of pages detailing how the president’s former fixer illegally paid hush money to Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who both were prepared to publicly say before Election Day that Trump had cheated on his wife with them. Instead, they were silenced through six-figure sums paid by Cohen.

The Daniels’ scheme began in October 2016 when her attorney, Keith Davidson, contacted Cohen and AMI about her allegations of an affair with Trump. It came during a decisive time for Trump’s candidacy.

On Oct. 7, the Access Hollywood tape was released and exposed vile remarks Trump made about women a decade earlier.

The next day, Trump’s close personal assistant Hicks called Cohen. Sixteen seconds later, Trump and the trio spoke for approximately four  minutes. As FBI agents noted, it was the first time Cohen had spoken to Hicks in weeks—and the first time he and Trump had spoken in months, a possible sign of how explosive the campaign saw Daniels’ story.

After a short call between Cohen and Hicks, Cohen phoned AMI chairman David Pecker, a long-time friend of Trump and owner of the National Enquirer. Cohen spoke to Hicks again, then called Dylan Howard, AMI’s AMI chief content officer and Pecker’s lieutenant.

Then Cohen, Pecker, and Trump spoke together for nearly eight minutes.

After another call with Cohen, Howard sent him a text message: “Keith will do it. Let’s convene tomorrow.”

The next morning, Cohen texted Hicks, “So far I see only 6 stories! Getting little to no traction.”

Cohen texted back, “Even CNN not talking about it. No one believes it and if necessary, I have a statement from Storm[y] denying everything and contradicting the other porn stars statement. I wouldn’t use it now or even discuss with him as no one is talking about it and no one cares!”

1. A check signed by President Donald Trump for $35,000 on Aug. 1, 2017
2. A check signed by Donald Trump, Jr., and Trump Organization COO Allen Weisselberg for $35,000 on March 1, 2017.

“I am providing a copy of a $35,000 check that President Trump personally signed from his personal bank account on Aug. 1 of 2017 — when he was President of the United States — pursuant to the cover-up, which was the basis of my guilty plea, to reimburse me — the word used by Mr. Trump’s TV lawyer — for the illegal hush money I paid on his behalf. This $35,000 check was one of 11 check installments that was paid throughout the year, while he was President,” 

— Michael Cohen, House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing.

“The President of the United States thus wrote a personal check for the payment of hush money as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws. You can find the details of that scheme, directed by Mr. Trump, in the pleadings in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.”

—  Michael Cohen 

Publisher of the National Enquirer admits to hush-money payments made on Trump’s behalf

An agreement between prosecutors and American Media Inc. made clear that the tabloid, which trumpeted his candidacy and is controlled by Trump’s longtime friend David Pecker, had flipped on the president.

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The National Enquirer’s parent company acknowledged paying hush money to a woman who alleged an affair with Donald Trump to “suppress the woman’s story” and “prevent it from influencing the election.”

The admission came as federal prosecutors announced Wednesday that they would not prosecute the company, American Media Inc. (AMI), for its role in a scheme to tilt the presidential race in favor of Trump. In the agreement AMI said it would cooperate with prosecutors and admitted it paid $150,000 to Karen McDougal before the 2016 election to silence her allegations of an affair with Trump.

The deal signaled the unraveling of the deep relationship Trump and AMI chief executive David Pecker had forged over decades. The deal also made clear that Pecker, whose tabloid strongly supported Trump’s candidacy, has turned on the president.

According to the agreement, Pecker met with Cohen “and at least one other member of the campaign” in August 2015. “At the meeting, Pecker offered to help deal with negative stories about that presidential candidate’s relationships with women by, among other things, assisting the campaign in identifying such stories so they could be purchased and their publication avoided. . . . Pecker agreed to keep Cohen apprised of any such negative stories.”

Prosecutors also allege that Pecker and AMI played a key role in the effort to silence Daniels. One month before the election in 2016, after an agent for Daniels informed National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard that Daniels intended to tell her story publicly, Pecker and Howard contacted Cohen. Soon after, Cohen negotiated a $130,000 deal to buy Daniels’s silence.

The Office also announced today that it has previously reached a non-prosecution agreement with AMI, in connection with AMI’s role in making the above-described $150,000 payment before the 2016 presidential election. As a part of the agreement, AMI admitted that it made the $150,000 payment in concert with a candidate’s presidential campaign, and in order to ensure that the woman did not publicize damaging allegations about the candidate before the 2016 presidential election. AMI further admitted that its principal purpose in making the payment was to suppress the woman’s story so as to prevent it from influencing the election.

Prosecutors Effectively Accuse Trump of Defrauding Voters. What Does It Mean?

President Trump’s lawyer minimized the importance of any potential campaign finance violations, but Democrats said they could potentially lead to impeachment.

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The latest revelations by prosecutors investigating President Trump and his team draw a portrait of a candidate who personally directed an illegal scheme to manipulate the 2016 election and whose advisers had more contact with Russia than Mr. Trump has ever acknowledged.

In the narrative that the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, and New York prosecutors are building, Mr. Trump continued to secretly seek to do business in Russia deep into his presidential campaign even as Russian agents made more efforts to influence him. At the same time, in this account he ordered hush payments to two women to suppress stories of impropriety in violation of campaign finance law.

“While many Americans who desired a particular outcome to the election knocked on doors, toiled at phone banks or found any number of other legal ways to make their voices heard, Cohen sought to influence the election from the shadows,” the prosecutors wrote.

“He did so by orchestrating secret and illegal payments to silence two women who otherwise would have made public their alleged extramarital affairs with Individual-1,” they continued.