President Donald Trump is wrong to dismiss accusations of campaign-finance violations, George Conway, attorney and husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, said on Monday.
Trump tweeted on Monday, in response to news that federal prosecutors have determined that he directed his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to pay two women who claimed to have had affairs with the then-candidate using campaign funds, a violation of campaign-finance laws.
In his tweet, Trump claimed that the payment was a “simple private transaction.”
Conway tweeted later that morning: “No, the criminal campaign-finance violations were found by professional line prosecutors in a Republican-controlled United States Department of Justice. It looks like a pretty good case. Kudos to them.”
“’Democrats can’t find a Smocking Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey’s testimony. No Smocking Gun...No Collusion.’ @FoxNews That’s because there was NO COLLUSION. So now the Dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution,...," Trump tweeted.
“....which it was not (but even if it was, it is only a CIVIL CASE, like Obama’s - but it was done correctly by a lawyer and there would not even be a fine. Lawyer’s liability if he made a mistake, not me),” Trump continued. “Cohen just trying to get his sentence reduced. WITCH HUNT!”
An earlier version of Conway’s tweet mocked Trump for misspelling “smoking gun” as “smocking gun,” but this has since been deleted and replaced.
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