As Donald Trump looks ahead to possible charges related to adult entertainment star Stormy Daniels, he has preemptively been making the case for why he is innocent. We took a closer look at two of these defenses.
commissioners: They agreed that the complaint against Cohen should be dismissed, because Cohen had by that time admitted to a crime in federal court, making any commission action against him moot.
The Democratic commissioners, Shana M. Broussard and Ellen L. Weintraub, argued that the charges against Trump — that he"knowingly and willfully accepted contributions nearly 5,000% over the legal limit to suppress a negative story mere days before Election Day" — were"well-grounded." "We concluded that pursuing these matters further was not the best use of agency resources," Cooksey and Trainor wrote."The commission regularly dismisses matters where other government agencies have already adequately enforced and vindicated the commission’s interests. Furthermore, by the time recommendations came before us, the commission was facing an extensive enforcement docket backlog resulting from a prolonged lack of a quorum.
"The Republican FEC commissioners’ statement is phrased using classic ‘use of resources’ declination language familiar to prosecutors, where despite the presence of significant evidence, they don’t see a case as important enough, relative to others, to merit going forward," said Mark Osler, a University of St. Thomas law professor.
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