not disclosing loans and payments on his financial disclosure forms as president? you re to the worried about any of that? let s start with the 1001 issue. that can be construed a number of different ways, one of which it was just a vendor payment, it wasn t a loan, a vendor payment paid to his lawyer. and under the rules, right, you have a lawyer, lawyers get paid all the time. and lawyers get paid, and they charge for fees, they charge for expenses, they charge for a number of different things. that could be construed as a vendor payment, and could be interpreted by his lawyers, we don t know how his lawyers interpreted that provision and gave him advice relative to it. one at a time. don t flood the zone, one at a time, what do you think, laura coates. that s a big stretch. we re not talking about a reimbursement for a meal. we re talking about the idea of whether or not you tried to
you won the election, won the actual office to then say now i ll pay you back, never a threshold limit ever at play, and also never a disclosure report ever at play here. they anticipate this sort of thing by having the campaign finance laws and later on ethical disclosure laws put in place for that very reason. for me, the idea of being a vendor payment is likely not why they were going after him. it was because there was a circumvention that was deliberate. according to him, it was in cahoots with donald trump. pleaded guilty, two counts. the 1001, yeah, for that issue, we re talking about the personal financial disclosures. that s what i was talking about. as it relates to campaign finance issues, alan dershowitz said earlier today, these are payments made ultimately by donald trump, he made arrangements, he was going to pay them. he made them personally. there s no campaign finance laws broken there. these are relative to personal conduct. the edwards decision in the
circumvent campaign finance law. there would be no purpose of having campaign finance laws if all you had to do was wait until after you got the election, won the actual office to then say now i ll pay you back, never a threshold limit ever at play, and also a disclosure report ever at play here. they anticipate this sort of thing by having the campaign finance laws and later on ethical disclosure laws put in place for that very reason. for me, the idea of being a vendor payment is likely not why they were going after him. it was because there was a circumvention that was deliberate. according to him, it was in ca hoots with donald trump. pleaded guilty of two counts. the 1001, yeah, for that issue, we re talking about the personal financial disclosures. that s what i was talking about. as it relates to campaign finance issues, alan dershowitz said earlier today, these are payments made ultimately by donald trump, he made
that can be construed a number of different ways, one of which it was just a vendor payment, it wasn t a loan, a vendor payment paid to his lawyer. and under the rules, right, you have a lawyer, lawyers get paid all the time. and lawyers get paid, and they charge for fees, they charge for expenses, they charge for a number of different things. that could be construed as a vendor payment, and could be interpreted by his lawyers, we don t know how his lawyers interpreted that provision and gave him advice relative to it. one at a time. don t flood the zone, one at a time, what do you think, laura coates. that s a big stretch. we re not talking about a reimbursement for a meal. we re talking about the idea of whether or not you tried to circumvent campaign finance law. even if it were a loan, there would be no purpose of having campaign finance laws if all you had to do was wait until after