"multiple witnesses","internal company emails","text messages,"

[uponit7771]

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/trump-russia-cohen-moscow-tower-mueller-investigation

The special counsel’s office learned about Trump’s directive for Cohen to lie to Congress through interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents. Cohen then acknowledged those instructions during his interviews with that office.

So it looks like Cohen's word should not be the focus here but the documented evidence of Putin's whore suborning perjury.

if Cohen affirms that there is a cache of written information and document information in regards to this obstruction of justice then Rashida Talib's sentiments should be the standard and not the exception.

No doubt

[JNelson6563]

1. Well he did say "Mueller knows everything"

Welcome to hating life Team Trump. You're all fucked.

[uponit7771]

2. +1, I don't know why anyone with half a brain would want to be associated with that guy

[PJMcK]

12. It's worse than you wrote

I have watched Trump since the early 1980s. He is a lying conman and I've never understood how anyone could think he was smart, respectable or a good businessman.

How did 60+ million American voters elect this sham?

[AllyCat]

13. Did you mean "sham"?

He doesn’t seem wise enough to be a shaman

[PJMcK]

16. Yes, I did

Thanks. spell-check must have been involved.

Fixed it.

[pazzyanne]

15. Same with me!

He and his dad were frequently in the news for their mob-like behavior. The only reason that I can think of that he got the Republican nomination is because of "The Apprentice". We know that Republicans worship money.

[watoos]

20. Yep, Trump was a useful idiot for Putin,

and a useful idiot for rich Republicans.

Republicans got their tax cuts and deregulations,

I can't wait for poor Trumpers to discover that extra money they got in their pay checks came from their refunds.

[pazzyanne]

29. It will be a sad awakening for many, I'm afraid.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

23. I don't forgive tv

Tv 'news' handed Traitor Donald over $2 billion in free air time. None of the other candidates could match that. The infatuation with ratings and outrage trumped any sense of balance or worry about the consequences to the country.

[pazzyanne]

30. You are absolutely right.

Especially right wing propaganda sites, although mainstream media was slow to facing what they did now that we are in danger of losing our country.

[uponit7771]

32. With help from Russia is what it's looking like

[Stuart G]

3. Two key words, "multible witnesses"...We have moved into the last act of this play..

Hard to believe that this act came this quick. A few days ago, we were in the middle. All of a sudden we have moved to the "Last Act of the Play/movie/whatever...!!!!!!!

[watoos]

4. Trump still has traitorous allies;

in the Senate, the SC, and the AG. and his zombie base. We are in unchartered waters here where people who are supposed to check the president are complicit with him. Our democracy hangs in the balance, will Senate Republicans put party over country, put Trump over the Constitution?

[Roland99]

5. AG nominee Barr might as well withdraw now. Esp after he was Klobuchar'd!!

Link to tweet

[thesquanderer]

18. In what way do those videos indicate that Barr should withdraw his nomination?

I'm missing something...

[Roland99]

19. why take a job under the pretext he's likely under of serving/protecting Trump given Cohen's news?

[calimary]

6. I can't waaaaaaaaait!

[DeminPennswoods]

7. Nixon did not lose his support until the very end.

Even after he resigned, his approval was still around 24%. I didn't learn this until watching the most recent documentary on Watergate, but Howard Baker was actually a Nixon mole on the Watergate Committee until the evidence was clear that Nixon was behind all the crimes.

[fountainofyouth]

10. This is correct and often forgotten

The evidence that led to Nixon's downfall was damning -- the "Smoking Gun Tape" -- but it didn't emerge until the very, very end.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

24. and yet, people want to wait on impeachment

[uponit7771]

33. THIS !!!!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

34. IMO, we are in an emergency right now

Impeachment cannot wait for the Republicans in the Senate to give up their hopes of a permanent rule, or hopes for a destroyed federal government, or hopes of hiding illicit funding, and place the interests of the country over party or self.

Impeachment proceedings can help halt the destruction we are witnessing. It seems clear that the traitor in our White House is willing to burn everything to the ground rather than give up any appearance of failure.



Many here on DU feel likewise, apparently:
The Atlantic: IMPEACH DONALD TRUMP

[watoos]

8. Klobuchar and Mazie

did a good job grilling Barr, almost Franken-like.

Why have Barr withdraw now that he is on record indirectly claiming that Trump obstructed justice?

[pazzyanne]

17. Yes, they did!

Two very smart and politically talented women. I really enjoyed their questioning Barr during his confirmation hearing!

[Buckeyeblue]

9. It's up to the Republicans.

Is this acceptable to them? I guess at some point the House will have to find out by passing articles of impeachment. Then they'll have to go on record.

[watoos]

21. We are only going to get one shot at impeachment.

Come to think of it, why couldn't Trump be tried for impeachment a 2nd time? I'm sure he isn't done committing high crimes and misdemeanors.

[Buckeyeblue]

25. While I think there is nothing to prevent multiple impeachments

I think the optics around multiple impeachments are not good. If the Senate doesn't convict the first time around, why would they convict the next? I think the multiple impeachment scenario only works if a new Congress is seated.

[wishstar]

11. Probably explains why Rudy said the only crime would be if Trump ordered the hacking

Rudy not only denied he had ever claimed no collusion with Trump campaign and Russia but Rudy also tried to get Trump off hook by narrowly defining Trump's entire exposure to crime by saying the only crime for Trump would be if he ordered the hacking. Guess he thinks Repubs and Fox have succeeded in keeping base in line by calling Mueller's American indictments for lying as merely "process crimes"

[GoCubsGo]

14. Isn't Cohen they guy who recorded everything?

Lordy, I hope there are tapes!

[Zoonart]

28. OH... there ARE tapes.

Didn't they take 16 burners from Cohen when they raided his places?

He taped everything because he HAD TO. He could not deliver written reports to his boss because MF45 doesn't read.

MF45: MIke did you run the thing up the flag pole with the guy?

Cohen: Yes Boss just like you said.

MF45: Did you say exactly what I told you to say, because I don't think you did? I mean I had to coach you, dummy.

Cohen: (puts phone on the desk and puches play. The whole conversation spools out between Cohen and *Russian*)

MF45: Good boy, Mikey.

Cohen: Thanks Boss. Anything for you Boss.

*This about a thousand times*

[watoos]

22. Trump has committed many impeachable offenses,

and provably so, but that doesn't matter, Senate Republicans still have to do the right thing and convict.

[ginnyinWI]

26. And this might be the only thing Putin would need to blackmail the Orange Stain.

He also knows Cohen was lying about the dates. Changing June 2016 to January 2016 re Trump Tower negotiations. Could explain a lot.

[onenote]

27. I hope this turns out to be real, but I take anything by Jason Leopold with a grain of salt

He swore up and down he had independent verification of Karl Rove's indictment and we know how that turned out.

[Adrahil]

31. IF this is true....

the is HAS to be Impeachment time. Even if the Senate will not convict, this is a very, VERY serious crime.