COMEY SAYS TRUMP'S 'LUCKY' HE CAN'T BE INDICTED ... BE CAN HE? - Former FBI Director James Comey said Sunday in an interview that President Trump, if it's proved that he directed illegal hush-money payments to women, would be in violation of campaign finance laws. But he is lucky that the rule of the Justice Department remains that a sitting president cannot be indicted ... “I don’t know,” Comey replied to MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, when asked if Trump is now an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the case of Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. “Not in the formal sense that he’s been named in an indictment. ... But if he’s not there, he’s certainly close, given the language in the filing that the crimes were committed at his direction.”
In filings Friday, prosecutors in New York linked Trump to a federal crime of illegal payments to buy the silence of two women - adult-entertainment star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal - during the 2016 campaign. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office also laid out contacts between Trump associates and Russian intermediaries, and suggested the Kremlin aimed early on to influence Trump and his Republican campaign by playing to his political and personal business interests. In the legal filings, the Justice Department stopped short of accusing Trump of directly committing a crime. - Reported by Frank Miles
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