William J. Kemble is reporting for the Daily Freeman U.S. Rep. John Faso said December 11, that while the payment of hush money to two women who claim to have had affairs with Donald Trump was "reprehensible," he does not believe the president broke campaign finance law in the process. The Kinderhook Republican said information about the payments from federal prosecutors in the case against former Trump attorney Michael Cohen do not rise to the level of impeachment. “It’s highly speculative as to whether those payments, reprehensible [as] the entire matter was, I think it’s a stretch to say that ... it violated federal campaign finance rules,” Faso said. Prosecutors said Cohen admitted acting “in coordination with and at the direction” of then-candidate Trump when the payments were made in the summer and fall of 2016, and that the payments were meant to influence the presidential election. Faso, who lost his re-election bid in November, to Democrat Antonio Delgado of Rhinebeck, is not convinced that special counsel Robert Mueller has successfully drawn a direct correlation between the Trump campaign and Russian government officials. Faso has asked for the Mueller investigation to be concluded quickly, but the congressman acknowledged this week there are many questions about the matter still unanswered. Delgado could not be reached for comment. Read the full story in the Daily Freeman.