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Donald Trump's reckoning has arrived
After Michael Cohens day in court, the president is in very real legal jeopardy. Its now conceivable he could be forced to resign
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/21/trump-manafort-cohen-plea-bargain
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For now we need to stay focused on the very real legal jeopardy facing Crooked Donald. Campaign finance crimes of this kind are not trivial matters: under federal guidelines updated at the end of last year by Trumps own justice department, a campaign finance crime committed knowingly and willfully amounting to more than $25,000 is what they call a five-year felony.
Just one of Cohens payments, made at Trumps direction, amounted to $130,000.
Of course any normal politician would have died of embarrassment at arranging secret payments to any porn star, never mind one called Stormy Daniels. Any normal politician would have found his career and reputation shredded to the point where he would be too ashamed to stay in public life or, for that matter, any public space.
But as we all know by now, Crooked Donald is entirely abnormal, with no reputation to save, and no sense of shame.
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Until his resignation, Agnew claimed the US Attorneys investigations were all lies. His lawyers claimed that a sitting vice-president couldnt be indicted. Both of those arguments collapsed. As one of Agnews lawyers recently wrote, there are no constitutional protections against indictment for either a president or a vice-president.
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If only Trump had not run for president, his minions could have continued laundering Russian money, evading taxes, and paying hush money until he tweeted off this mortal coil.
Instead, he attracted the attention of every self-respecting law enforcement and intelligence officer in the nations capital and beyond. The downfall of Pablo Escobars drug cartel began when he ran for office in Colombia, and the same might just prove to be true about the far smaller Trump enterprise.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)Paul Manafort's problems just got worse. He was present at Jr.'s Trump Tower meeting.
Manafort 's connection to Russia and the Trump campaign, relationships to Russian oligarchs, etc., will surface.
GUILTY will be the result of this trial as well. Trump is going down and his job approval will sink too. Trump is a criminal.
malaise
(269,157 posts)for thee.