If You’re Outraged By Trump’s Possible Campaign Finance Violations, You Must’ve Been Outraged By Obama’s HUGE Mistake Too

There’s not a shred of evidence of Trump “colluding” with Russia. At worst, we’re looking at a campaign finance violation, which Trump is denying. He’s calling the hush-money payments a “simple private transaction.”

“Democrats can’t find a Smocking Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey’s testimony. No Smocking Gun…No Collusion.” @FoxNews That’s because there was NO COLLUSION. So now the Dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution,…

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 10, 2018

….which it was not (but even if it was, it is only a CIVIL CASE, like Obama’s – but it was done correctly by a lawyer and there would not even be a fine. Lawyer’s liability if he made a mistake, not me). Cohen just trying to get his sentence reduced. WITCH HUNT!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 10, 2018

Trump hasn’t been charged with anything, but at worst, we’re looking at a campaign finance violation. But even that is iffy.

Meanwhile, an expert campaign finance lawyer said in an interview published Monday that he is not impressed with the Department of Justice’s evidence that effectively links Trump to campaign finance violations after the recent release of the Cohen sentencing memo.

Dan Backer, the lawyer, told Forbes that there appears to be no evidence to corroborate the DOJ’s apparent assertion of any illegality on Trump’s part.

Backer, a veteran campaign counsel, said it is common practice for high-profile individuals and companies to take part in these kinds of payment arrangements. He said Trump is a brand, he has carried out similar payments for years and these so-called “hush-buys” will likely continue.

“Brand protection is not a campaign contribution,” he told the magazine.

If you’re a liberal who’s all “Wow! Got him! Impeach!” I have a question for ya. Where were you when Obama’s campaign messed up big time?

Check out this WaPo report from 2013:

President Obama’s campaign has agreed to pay a $375,000 fine to the Federal Election Commission, among the largest penalties in the agency’s history.

The fine was imposed after an audit of the campaign’s books showed that it failed to report the identities of donors who gave large checks in the weeks before the 2008 election, according to a copy of the agreement between the FEC and the president’s campaign.

The document shows that the Obama campaign failed to disclose the identities of donors responsible for $2 million in contributions in the weeks ahead of the election. The campaign also misreported the dates of $85 million in other contributions.

In addition, the Obama campaign also kept $1.3 million in contributions that were above the legal maximum allowed for a federal campaign, failing to return them within the 60 days required by law. The campaign kept almost $874,000 of those donations until the FEC discovered they were unlawful.

The $375,000 fine was the “largest collected by the FEC in the past five years,” and it was “within the top 15 fines since 1980, according to a list on the agency’s Web site.”

Obama’s campaign had its own set of problems and paid a HYUUUUGE fine. Interestingly enough, I didn’t hear any “Impeach OBAMA” chants in the background all those years.

Weird.