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To: zzpat who wrote (1084447)	8/22/2018 10:31:23 AM
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The former head of the Federal Election Commission, Bradley Smith, clarified how Cohen’s alleged “hush” payment to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election is not an in kind contribution to the Trump campaign or a violation of campaign finance law. “When the FEC wrote the regulation that says what constitutes campaign expenditures and what constitutes personal use, it rejected specifically the idea that a campaign expenditure was anything related to a campaign, and instead says it has to be something that exists only because of the campaign and solely for that reason,” Bradley Smith told Levin Tuesday. The expenditures alleged by Cohen, Smith explained, are not violations of campaign finance law even though they “might incidentally benefit your campaign,” https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/08/22/fmr-head-of-the-fec-blows-up-media-narrative-that-trump-broke-the-law-by-referring-to-the-actual-law-666425