It looks like a few more chickens, eagles actually, might be coming home to roost where Donald Trump is concerned. Everybody else involved in the matter has been prosecuted for election influencing in 2016 by paying Trump’s paramour Karen McDougal, except for Trump. It looks like his time is coming up now. And what is really sobering to contemplate: If he had been reelected, the statute of limitations on this issue would have expired and he would have walked away scot free. Still might. It’s a long time until August and Trump is Teflon.
BREAKING: @FEC fines AMI $187,500 for illegal $150k hush payment to Karen McDougal on behalf of 2016 Trump campaign, per 2018 @CommonCause complaint. Cohen went to prison. AMI fined. Trump orchestrated, but still no Trump accountability. DOJ has until Aug. to prosecute Trump. pic.twitter.com/PCDct9yjHW
— Paul Seamus Ryan (he/him/his) (@ThePaulSRyan) June 1, 2021
AMI admitted to DOJ that it payed McDougal for the purpose of influencing the 2016 presidential election. Payments to influence an election, made in coordination with a candidate, are textbook examples of "in-kind contributions." pic.twitter.com/k9qpcpbn4v
— Paul Seamus Ryan (he/him/his) (@ThePaulSRyan) June 1, 2021
Yet in this matter and w/r/t @CommonCause complaint for Trump's Stormy Daniels hush payment, FEC refused to hold Trump accountable. GOP Commissioners Cooksey & Trainor blocked enforcement in Daniels matter, saying that pursuing the matter "not the best use of agency resources."
— Paul Seamus Ryan (he/him/his) (@ThePaulSRyan) June 1, 2021
Conclusion: If it was a good use of FEC resources to hold AMI accountable (it was!), then it's a good use of resources to hold kingpin Trump accountable for violations that helped him win the presidency in 2016. The fact that members of the FEC concluded otherwise is astounding.
— Paul Seamus Ryan (he/him/his) (@ThePaulSRyan) June 1, 2021
Trump’s got enablers everywhere. That’s the problem. That’s how he gets away with everything short of shooting somebody on 5th Avenue — and he may try that, don’t put it past him.
