Former FEC Chairman: Trump Lawyer’s Hush Money Is Not a Campaign Contribution

Former FEC Chairman: Trump Lawyer’s Hush Money Is Not a Campaign Contribution
Michael Cohen (C), longtime personal lawyer and confidante for President Donald Trump, exits the United States District Court Southern District of New York, April 16, 2018 in New York City, after a hearing regarding the FBI’s raid on Cohen’s home, office, and hotel room Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Ivan Pentchoukov
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Payments used to silence people who have potentially damaging information on a political candidate cannot be classified as a campaign contribution, according to the former chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Bradley Smith.

“Not everything that might benefit a candidate is a campaign expense,” Smith wrote in an editorial for the Wall Street Journal.
Ivan Pentchoukov
Ivan Pentchoukov
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Ivan is the national editor of The Epoch Times. He has reported for The Epoch Times on a variety of topics since 2011.
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