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struggle4progress

(118,332 posts)
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 04:19 PM Feb 2019

Are his worst troubles yet to come?

Tom McCarthy in New York
Sun 24 Feb 2019 01.00 EST

... Alex Whiting, a Harvard law professor and former prosecutor on the international criminal court, said a conclusion of the Mueller investigation would “open up space” for congressional inquiries to take the lead, “and that would start a whole new phase of this information becoming public and being investigated”.

Former federal prosecutor Patrick Cotter said that while he doubted a full Mueller report would be made public soon, if ever, he thought it likely any report would spawn further investigations by other prosecutors and significant congressional activity ...

Barb McQuade, a University of Michigan law professor and former US attorney, rattled off a half-dozen questions for Cohen – about Trump Organization efforts to build a tower in Moscow, about illicit payments to women in advance of the 2016 election and about reports Cohen traveled to Prague during the campaign ...

“It’s enormously consequential,” Whiting said. “People around the president have been indicted and convicted. It has raised at least the possibility of impeachable offenses. And in order to clear the air and resolve all those issues, it’s going to have to be public” ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/24/trump-faces-a-legal-reckoning-this-week-but-are-his-worst-troubles-yet-to-come

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Are his worst troubles yet to come? (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2019 OP
K&R smirkymonkey Feb 2019 #1
With trump, the worst is always yet to come... Blue Owl Feb 2019 #2
The televised hearings are what volstork Feb 2019 #3

volstork

(5,403 posts)
3. The televised hearings are what
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 07:21 PM
Feb 2019

did nixon in. Once his duplicity came to light, 77% of the country turned against him. There was no going back...

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