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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 3698532" data-attributes="member: 18222"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><a href="https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/08/22/election-law-violations-compared-obama-2008-vs-trump-2016/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Debunker%20-%20Friday%2024%20August%202018&utm_content=Daily%20Debunker%20-%20Friday%2024%20August%202018+CID_bc163df5bec4236c1799e8777a7882ec&utm_source=CampaignMonitor&utm_term=Read%20more" target="_blank">Election Law Violations Compared: Obama 2008 vs. Trump 2016</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p>“There are always reporting violations in campaigns. Many of them minor, many of them substantive,” Ravel told us. “But in this case … what was admitted to by Cohen was that there was a clear intent to use campaign money for the purpose of keeping the individuals quiet right before the election for campaign purposes.”</p><p></p><p>One defense against such charges, articulated by President Trump on Twitter the following morning, was that Barack Obama also committed campaign finance violations that were just as bad in 2008, but he was let off much easier.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump" target="_blank"><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/874276197357596672/kUuht00m_normal.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">Michael Cohen plead guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime. President Obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily settled!</span></p><p></p><p>In this tweet, President Trump attempted to compare the <em>criminal</em> charges brought against Cohen by the U.S. Justice Department with a series of <em>civil</em> violations brought against the Obama campaign by the <a href="https://www.fec.gov/about/" target="_blank">Federal Election Commission</a> (FEC), a separate, independent body which cannot prosecute criminal cases.</p><p></p><p>While it is true that President Obama’s 2008 campaign was fined a significant amount of money by the FEC, those fines covered civil violations that were different than the criminal infractions admitted to by Cohen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 3698532, member: 18222"] [SIZE=6][B][URL='https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/08/22/election-law-violations-compared-obama-2008-vs-trump-2016/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Debunker%20-%20Friday%2024%20August%202018&utm_content=Daily%20Debunker%20-%20Friday%2024%20August%202018+CID_bc163df5bec4236c1799e8777a7882ec&utm_source=CampaignMonitor&utm_term=Read%20more']Election Law Violations Compared: Obama 2008 vs. Trump 2016[/URL][/B] [/SIZE] “There are always reporting violations in campaigns. Many of them minor, many of them substantive,” Ravel told us. “But in this case … what was admitted to by Cohen was that there was a clear intent to use campaign money for the purpose of keeping the individuals quiet right before the election for campaign purposes.” One defense against such charges, articulated by President Trump on Twitter the following morning, was that Barack Obama also committed campaign finance violations that were just as bad in 2008, but he was let off much easier. [URL='https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump'][IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/874276197357596672/kUuht00m_normal.jpg[/IMG][/URL][FONT=Book Antiqua]Michael Cohen plead guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime. President Obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily settled![/FONT] In this tweet, President Trump attempted to compare the [I]criminal[/I] charges brought against Cohen by the U.S. Justice Department with a series of [I]civil[/I] violations brought against the Obama campaign by the [URL='https://www.fec.gov/about/']Federal Election Commission[/URL] (FEC), a separate, independent body which cannot prosecute criminal cases. While it is true that President Obama’s 2008 campaign was fined a significant amount of money by the FEC, those fines covered civil violations that were different than the criminal infractions admitted to by Cohen. [/QUOTE]
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