Leah Millis / Reuters President Donald Trump is trying to deflect from his lawyer implicating him in felony campaign finance law violations by talking about an unrelated fine the 2008 Obama campaign received. There are however two crucial distinctions between Cohen’s violations, which implicate Trump, and those of the Obama campaign. These violations would be a failure to file reports in a timely fashion or inadvertent receipt of excessive contributions. But the violations Cohen admitted to in court, of which he likely has evidence, are not routine; they are admitted felonies. The 2008 campaign was the most expensive presidential campaign in history at the time and was the first to raise hundreds of millions of dollars online, many in the form of small donations.

Source: Huffington Post August 22, 2018 19:30 UTC