Former President Trump has once again been vindicated after another federal investigation falls apart.
The Federal Election Commission announced that they will not continue investigating if former President Donal Trump made alleged “hush money” payments to porn star Stormy Daniels through his ex-attorney Michael Cohen.
A statement from the FEC said that it had “failed a vote of 2-2” to “find reason to believe that Donald J. Trump knowingly and willfully” violated federal election.
Cohen, who was sentenced to three years in prison for breaking campaign finance laws by making the payment, tax evasion, and lying to Congress, claimed Trump ordered him to make the payments to two women during the elections.
“It was my own weakness and a blind loyalty to this man that led me to choose a path of darkness over light,” Cohen said in 2018.
In a statement to the New York Times after the FEC announcement, Cohen attacked the former President.
“The hush money payment was done at the direction of and for the benefit of Donald J. Trump,” he said. “Like me, Trump should have been found guilty. How the F.E.C. committee could rule any other way is confounding.”
On his personal website Trump thanked the FEC.
“The Federal Election Commission in Washington, D.C., has totally dropped the phony case against me concerning payments to women relative to the 2016 Presidential Election. It was a case built on lies from Michael Cohen, a corrupt and convicted lawyer, a lawyer in fact who was so corrupt he was sentenced to three years in jail for lying to Congress and many other things having nothing to do with me,” Trump said.
“I thank the Commission for their decision, ending this chapter of Fake News. Between two sleazebag lawyers, Michael Avenatti and Michael Cohen, we were all able to witness law and justice in our Country at its lowest!”
Late last year, the New York Times proclaimed that once and for all they were going to get President Trump reporting the FEC had “reason to believe” Trump “knowingly and willfully” broke the law.
That report has now crumbled like cookie.
