Trump Campaign Hid Settlements With Women, New Complaint Says

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-campaign-hid-settlements-with-women-new-complaint-says

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  1. Here’s the beginning of the story:

    A sex discrimination lawsuit against [Donald Trump](http://thedailybeast.com/keyword/donald-j-trump)’s campaign has triggered new accusations that Trump’s lawyers have intentionally covered up settlement payments to women in violation of federal law.

    On Friday, watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, demanding an investigation into the alleged cover-up. The complaint cites new allegations from 2016 Trump campaign aide A.J. Delgado, which she lodged in a [sworn court declaration](https://ecf.nysd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_temp.pl?file=file0.532029788280976.pdf&type=application/pdf) earlier this week as part of her ongoing discrimination suit against Trump’s political operation.

    Delgado’s filing presented evidence of top Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz openly admitting that the campaign wanted to use a law firm to cover up a potential settlement payout in 2017. The arrangement, as Delgado described it, appears specifically designed to evade the consequences of federal disclosure laws that require campaigns to publicly report the identities of payment recipients.

    “In other words, the payment would be routed through a middleman, to hide the fact that the Campaign had settled, from the public and the FEC,” Delgado stated. “I thus have direct, personal experience with the Defendant-Campaign hiding settlement payments to women, routing them through a ‘middleman law firm,’ which to the public would only appear as payments “for legal services.”

    Delgado also claimed to have “information and reason to believe” that other campaign payments have hidden settlements with women “who raised complaints of gender discrimination, pregnancy discrimination, and sexual harassment.” Those payments, she said, are related to the $4.1 million that flowed to Kasowitz’s law firm over a two-month period immediately following the November 2020 election, as well as millions in mysterious legal reimbursements to the campaign’s compliance firm, Red Curve Solutions, which The Daily Beast first reported earlier this month, [prompting a federal complaint](https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-complaint-alleges-trump-campaign-hid-millions-in-lawyer-payments).

    The declaration is particularly significant in that it captures a direct admission of the campaign’s actual intentions behind this middleman arrangement—to keep the existence of a settlement from the public, and, by doing so, from the FEC itself.

    In a statement to The Daily Beast, CREW president Noah Bookbinder demanded an investigation, saying that Delgado’s allegations raise serious concerns about a potentially illegal cover-up.

  3. I am shocked, flabbergasted and a tad gassy by this. 

  4. Note to self : Become politician.

    Note to self II : spend own money on hookers

  5. I will.file this information under “N” for “No Fucking Shit”

  6. Another day another crime reported or committed. He is a walking, talking, traitorous, womanizing criminal fraudster. Hard Stop.

    Steve on the big board – can you walk us through.

  7. Everything and everyone around Trump is all about criming.

  8. I just came into this thread from a thread about Israel/Palestine and I misinterpreted this headline hardcore

    I thought they meant like, settlements of people

    Like, the Trump campaign had constructed and populated a series of settlements with only women, and then hid it from the public

    And the wild thing is, it didn’t even register as *all that* shocking

  11. Who is stupid enough to be surprised by Donald ending Trump’s blazing trail of shit and debauchery? Like really? The elitist playboy who partied with Epstein and did cameos in playboy movies? Fuck off.

  12. And yet 100 million American will choose him as representing them

  13. Think, if Trump hadn’t of ran for President and forced a world wide spotlight on himself he probably would’ve spent the rest of his life coasting by and screwing people over with illegal activities but Icarus flew too close to the sun.

  14. Why does this story feel like deja-vu? Like, hasn’t this story been reported or is this a whole new round of settlements discovered?

  20. Delgado’s a creep too. She would’ve stayed quiet if Miller paid her child support and a nice tidy payout for herself

  21. Just wild to me that emails, binders full of women and 47% were enough to disqualify candidates and yet this grifter may actually fucking win 

  22. Just gonna learn more and more crazy shit the closer to election

  23. Do we think he stopped doing this? I think he still is doing this in his Mar-a-Lago resort in secret, instead of at hotels and department stores. He is an impulsive sex predator and doubtful he stopped after Stormy Daniels.

  24. I bet there are dozens of NDA’s..that are hiding out there……we already know of about a dozen or so already ….sure there are many more…

  25. This is not a Kraken, this is a Hydra.

    He should get a loyalty card at all the courts where he is sued. No idea what it’ll be good for. Maybe a free gag order violation. Wait, he gets them for free most of the time anyway.

    Sorry for the bad jokes. Just needed to vent some frustration.

  26. A cover up payment in… 2017? As in, while in office?

    Conservatives: this is fine

  27. Is this what Republicans mean by “America first?” Lmao

  28. At the end of all this I think Trump will be identified as a novel sexually transmitted disease.

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