He was charged with violating campaign finance laws stemming from money used to hide his pregnant lover, but a trial ended in 2012 with an acquittal on one charge and a mistrial on five others. Mr. Giuliani pointed to that outcome on Saturday to argue that the president should not be similarly charged. “The President is not implicated in campaign finance violations because based on Edwards case and others the payments are not campaign contributions,” Mr. Giuliani wrote on Twitter. But he added that did not necessarily mean that the committee should vote to impeach Mr. Trump. But the hush money investigation is being led by a separate office of prosecutors in New York, and far less time has been spent publicly or privately trying to protect Mr. Trump from that inquiry.

Source: New York Times December 09, 2018 01:52 UTC