“So now the Dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution, which it was not,” Trump wrote. He further asserted that even if the payments could be considered campaign contributions, he should be facing a civil case rather than a criminal case. WITCH HUNT!”“Democrats can’t find a Smocking Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey’s testimony. President Trump disembarks from Marine One and walks back across the South Lawn of the White House on Friday. Prosecutors argue that because Cohen was an agent of the Trump campaign, the payments to McDougal and Daniels were campaign contributions in excess of federal limits and not unrelated expenditures.

Source: Washington Post December 10, 2018 12:45 UTC