FEC Commissioner Reminds Bragg That Officials Concluded Trump Case Isn't 'a Campaign Finance Violation'
“I don't know how you get around the evidence that both the Department of Justice in their investigation of the federal campaign finance issues and the Federal Election Commission in their ultimate jurisdiction over campaign finance issues, neither of them...
Intent to cover up a "nothing"?...
Something along the lines of “We don’t know if paying for X is legal or not, but if we record it as a business expense instead of as paying for X we won’t have to find out” would likely show sufficient intent to trigger the felony escalation.