Come to #60Minutes for Stormy Daniels. But stay for @thetrevorpotter talking campaign finance violationshttps://twitter.com/rickhasen/status/978048019907059712 …
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While Daniels' lawyer says the timing of the payment raises inference Cohen payment was campaign-related---I agree---I can't imagine a fair prosecutor deciding to go after Cohen without some external corroboration of state of mind, like a text message.
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And this puts aside the political pressure that would be on DOJ as to whether to treat this campaign finance violation as a wilful criminal violation.
As @thetrevorpotter mentions, the unknown question is whether this is within the purview of special counsel Mueller
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Presumably, given that it is campaign related, AG Sessions would have to recuse on handling of DOJ case, which gives it to Rosenstein. But we don't know if Rosenstein would/did refer it to Mueller. If not, could be handled by DOJ public integrity folks or people in another office
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But just to stress--even a fair minded prosecutor untouched by political pressure would have to think twice about going after Cohen criminally for this, absent some smoking gun evidence. John Edwards case just latest time DOJ got burned for being too aggressive in political cases
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