Trump will cut a deal to leave office 'before the end of 2019': former Bush aide

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DAVID BADASH, THE NEW CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
02 JAN 2019 AT 08:52 ET

President Donald Trump will not be removed from office via an impeachment conviction, but he will make a deal to exit his presidency “before the end of 2019,” says a former advisor to President George W. Bush. Alan J. Steinberg in an NJ.com op-ed says Trump will craft a deal to protect himself, his children, and the Trump Organization.

Trump will “use his presidency as a bargaining chip with federal and state authorities in 2019, agreeing to leave office in exchange for the relevant authorities not pursuing criminal charges against him, his children or the Trump Organization.”

Steinberg does predict Trump will be impeached by the Democratic-led House of Representatives, but says it is “highly unlikely” there will be enough votes in the Republican-majority Senate to convict and remove him from office.

Trump’s impeachment will be “for high crimes and misdemeanors, specifically his involvement in directing his former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen to commit a felony by making illegal in-kind contributions to the Trump campaign and concealing them,” says Steinberg.

Trump’s “abysmal” approval ratings and “the forthcoming recession” will make “it near impossible for Trump to stage a political recovery.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/trump-will-cut-deal-leave-office-end-2019-former-bush-aide/

This will not happen..................the AG in New York will not let this fraud off..................and Nadler and Lieu, Shiff, Swalwell and lets not forget Maxine Waters, they will not let this happen.......................not happening, and the republican senate will own this shit show come November 3, 2020......................and when the public hearings come out on this fraudster the republican controlled senate will have to move, they will not be able to hide......................we are coming in November 3, 2020, we are coming, chapter two is just being laid now.............................

The only problem is the right wing fucking federalist society judges sitting on the US Supreme Court....................

[mucifer]

1. I think I'm gonna be sick.

[WeekiWater]

2. Wouldn't this be some form of bribery?

I wouldn't give in to the wall with a promise he stepped down.

[RobinA]

21. No More Than

any plea bargain. I would think. Not that I believe for a minute he would do this. He'd have to actually listen to someone.

[WeekiWater]

24. It doesn't mention admitting guilt.

The offer isn’t tied to any specific. It’s not possible.

[Botany]

3. Michael Cohen's cell phone being in Prague in late summer 2016 will doom Trump

So far the # of things that have been proven wrong about the Steele Dossier is zero.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-the-michael-cohen-prague-story-true

On Dec. 27, McClatchy DC—a reputable news outlet that broke the most important stories about the Iraq War—reported that cell phone tower records obtained by foreign intelligence sources place Michael Cohen (or at least his phone) in Prague in the late summer of 2016. The story says this information, as well as the fruits of electronic eavesdropping by an Eastern European intelligence agency that picked up discussion among Russians of Cohen’s presence in Prague, are now in the possession of the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

If the McClatchy story is true, it has huge implications for Donald Trump's survival in the presidency. But that’s a major if; unlike many other scoops about the Mueller probe, no other outlet has been able to confirm McClatchy’s reporting. And the McClatchy reporters have made it clear that they have no corroborating evidence of their claims and that some of their sources are indirect at best.


The stakes are immense. If the McClatchy story is validated, it would strongly suggest that Mueller has evidence that in 2016 Trump sent his personal lawyer and fixer to Europe to meet with a high-ranking Kremlin official. The point of the meeting, if it occurred, was ostensibly to discuss Russian concerns that their intrusion in the presidential campaign on Trump’s behalf might be exposed. This would confirm an important section of the (in)famous “Steele dossier” and offer major evidence of Trump’s participation in a criminal conspiracy.

Paying off porn stars, obstruction of justice, corrupt Russian real estate deals—they’re all serious, even criminal, but not in the same league as “Prague” (or another place where Prague-like meetings might have taken place). A meeting or multiple meetings of this kind would be the crown jewels of what Mueller in court filings calls the “core” of his investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election.

[madville]

6. That story seems pretty thin at best

"Their sources have sources that say" is suspect and even the McClatchy journalists that wrote the story say "if it is true" when questioned about the potential implications of him being in Prague. Cohen also still denies he was in Prague and in the same tweet publicly states "Mueller knows everything", so I think the Cohen-Prague scenario is pretty unlikely at this point.

[Botany]

11. So far nothing in the Steele Dossier has been disproved and that is where the Cohen/Prague story ...

... comes from.

And I forgot where I read it but prior to Cohen's alleged Prague trip he supposedly got $50,000
from the Trump foundation for "tech services" and that is the amount he paid to Russian or
Russian linked hackers in 2016.

[dalton99a]

15. Michael Cohen paid a mysterious tech company $50,000 'in connection with' Trump's campaign

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/22/michael-cohen-paid-a-mysterious-tech-company-50000-in-connection-with-trumps-campaign.html

Michael Cohen paid a mysterious tech company $50,000 ‘in connection with’ Trump’s campaign
Published Wed, Aug 22 2018 • 5:42 PM EDT | Updated Wed, Aug 22 2018 • 7:03 PM EDT
Christina Wilkie

President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, arranged hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments during the summer and fall of 2016 to silence two women who claimed they’d had sexual relationships with the married candidate.

But silence is not all that Cohen appears to have purchased in order to help his boss win the White House.

Buried in the legal documents released Tuesday as part of Cohen’s guilty plea on eight felony counts, there was a new, previously unreported payment Cohen made in 2016 to help Trump: $50,000 for work that prosecutors say Cohen “solicited from a technology company during and in connection with the campaign.”

The documents do not identify which tech company Cohen paid the money to, or what, exactly, the company did for him. But the mere existence of the previously unknown payment suggests that Cohen may have been doing more for Trump, and for the Trump campaign, than simply paying off women.

Furthermore, the way that Cohen reported the $50,000 expense to the Trump Organization in January 2017 suggests the money may not have been paid out through traditional financial channels.

According to prosecutors, Cohen presented Trump executives with bank records for several of the expenses he incurred on Trump’s behalf. But for his $50,000 payment to a tech company, Cohen provided no paperwork, just a handwritten sum at the top of one of the other bank documents.

The Trump Organization would later say that the $50,000 was a “payment for tech services.” However, prosecutors say the $50,000 “was in fact related to work Cohen had solicited from a technology company during and in connection with the campaign.”

[Botany]

20. Quite the set of coincidences

Cohen is alleged to get $50,000 from Trump's foundation before his alleged trip to
Prague in late summer 2016.

The Steele Dossier said that Cohen paid $50,000 to hackers and met w/Kremlin
connected people in Prague in the late summer of 2016 for "help" in Trump's
campaign.

Michael Cohen's cell phone "pinged" a cell phone tower in the Prague area in the late
summer of 2016.

And we have pictures of Ivanka, Jared, & Wendy Deng (Putin's girlfriend and the ex Mrs.
Ropert Murdoch) in Europe in the late summer of 2016.

[Iliyah]

4. BS

They would have to carry him out . .

[peggysue2]

9. I hope they do carry him out . . .

on a stretcher and in a straight-jacket. For all the world to see.

As for dealmaking, letting Trumpski & Co, walk away without accountability? Absolutely no. These suckers belong in jail and their ill-gained assets forfeited. Anything less makes a mockery of the Rule of Law and damages the country even more.

[ooky]

5. Take all his money.

His money is his most loved possession. Any deal to keep him and his evil children out of prison should include seizing all their assets. The government should take everything - even the wig on his head.

Resign, shut down all their businesses, and take all their money. Make those evil, useless children go to WORK.

[lilactime]

7. Have any Bush people ever been right about anything?

[ScratchCat]

8. The problem with these "cut a deal" theories

Is that its becoming clear that Trump has come to the realization that the day he isn't President, there will be prosecutors standing in line with indictments for him and his family. That's the scary part that the GOP is trying to ignore. The man is going to completely flip out at some point and will have to be removed by a GOP-controlled Senate. The State of New York is going to charge his ass and all of his family members with crimes, 100% chance. There's nothing he can do.

[Major Nikon]

10. He could conceivably cut a deal with them as well

However, I don't think that's in the realm of possibility any more than cutting a deal with anyone else. No self-respecting prosecutor is going to trade criminal prosecution for quitting a job especially when impeachment and removal is specifically spelled out in the Constitution as a decidedly non-criminal remedy. It's not the job of Mueller or any state prosecutor to remove Trump from office.

[malaise]

12. Get thee to the greatest page

The Con and the rest of criminals must go to prison or the rule of law is over.
Lock them all up.

[AJT]

13. I would rather live another 2 years with him in office

than let him, his family off the hook. They need to spend the rest of their treasonous lives in prison.

[dalton99a]

14. Trump must pay for his crimes and perfidy.

[tableturner]

16. This is based on an incomplete view of his crimes.

When the the massive number of serious crimes Trump and crew have committed is exposed, it will not be terribly difficult to get twenty GOP senators to convict. Yes, it will be that massive!

[ScratchCat]

18. I agree completely

The conclusion of the investigation will reveal so much that he will be removed easily. There's at least 20 who privately want him gone right now anyway, the conclusion of the investigation will seal it.

[LiberalFighter]

17. ef that - He and his family need to go to prison.

[lindysalsagal]

19. 2019 GOP to Nancy: "Leave 45 alone." NP: "Watch this drive."

https://goo.gl/images/PU5XZi

[Hugin]

23. Those buffoons are still falling for a misguided teevee myth that the Trumpster Fire is a...

deal making wizard.

"Trump will craft a deal to protect himself, his children, and the Trump Organization."

Seriously, I don't know whether to laugh or bang my head on my keyboard. Maybe, I should do both.