Trumpâs FEC Appointees Let Him Escape Probe Of Porn Star Payoffs
Stormy Daniels, left, and former President Donald Trump
Photo, left, by WeHoCity is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Photo, right, by NASA/Bill Ingalls (Public domain).
The Federal Election Commission's Republican members, two Donald Trump appointees, blocked a staff-recommended examination of Trump's alleged campaign finance violations on Thursday.
An investigation was recommended after Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen admitted as part of a 2018 plea agreement to making the illegal contributions in the form of hush money to women, including $130,000 to Stormy Daniels, with whom Trump allegedly had extramarital affairs.