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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]why you all aren't in the streets with torches and pitchforks about the AT&T and Korea Air and Novartis payments? This is WAY worse than the Clinton Foundation stuff--Trump is actually president (not just a candidate), and these companies have pending business before the government (AT&T/Time Warner merger before DOJ, Korea Air plane sale to DOD), and Trump met privately with the company CEOs after his personal attorney received the payments. [/quote]

[b]1. Trump administration does not support ATT merger--so I don't know how you could argue that it was a payoff.[/b]
2. Novartis CEO was at a roundtable dinner (publicly televised) with Trump.  Hardly a private dinner.

I'll respond to Korea Air later--I don't have a response to that.[/quote]
I think there are some important technical questions here. Does a bribe have to be acted on to be a bribe?

Practically speaking, if it wasn't acted on as promised/intimated, what recourse would ATT have? Not as though they could yell out HEY we paid you guys and now you're not playing![/quote]
Novartis stated that Cohen promised access to Trump.  Even if Trump had no knowledge of it, this whole thing [b]makes Cohen look like a sleaze ball[/b], and this guy represented Trump.  Sleaze ball representing a sleaze ball.  One wonders what other sleazy thing Cohen did on behalf of Trump.[/quote]

You realize that Washington is awash in this sort of sleazball, right? [b] Every lobbyist that sells their influence can be painted with the same brus[/b]h.  But come on, you already knew Cohen was a major.....I've met the guy on multiple occasions and it takes about 3 seconds for anybody with a modicum of intelligence to puck up what he's giving off.[/quote]
Yep, and that's why  Dems pushed for campaign finance laws, and the Rs (Tea party especially) fought against.

It was the liberals who tried to limit this kind of influence, and the Rs who wanted to keep it.[/quote]

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