GOP fears Cohen set road to impeachment

[DonViejo]

Jonathan Swan, Mike Allen1 hour ago

Impeachment proceedings against President Trump went from a theoretical danger to a vivid reality with yesterday's guilty plea by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, sources close to the White House tell Axios.

The big picture: Cohen's guilty plea (with the president identified as "Individual-1&quot said Trump directed him to arrange hush money during the 2016 campaign to keep women from speaking out about affairs — so Cohen was accusing Trump of pushing him to commit a crime. Look for Cohen’s statement to form the basis of a 2019 impeachment attempt if Democrats win control of the House in November.

The plea by Cohen, paired in a split screen with the near-simultaneous conviction of Paul Manafort, is what Trump’s aides feared all along:

The Mueller investigation would lead these hardened investigators down rabbit holes that only Trump and his murky associates knew about.

The crimes detailed yesterday have nothing to do with colluding with Putin to throw an election — but are felonies, nonetheless.

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https://www.axios.com/michael-cohen-donald-trump-impeachment-republicans-25abc8cc-6eec-421d-8da6-b9da482c3bf0.html

[Achilleaze]

1. Meanwhile, honest, loyal Americans relieved that Cohen sets road to impeachment

[enid602]

2. Understatement of the year

“Murky associates.”

[DFW]

3. I don't buy a word of it

Impeachment is carried out by the House of Representatives. The impeachment is then sent to the Senate for trial. The Republicans control both the House and the Senate.

So far they have rubber-stamped every America-unfriendly measure and every unqualified hack Trump has sent them. Cohen's admissions have not revealed anything that wasn't pretty much public knowledge already.

[LiberalFighter]

4. I wonder if there have been anyone else that has helped DT commit crimes.

Especially from the inside. Or helped cover up his crimes so he wouldn't get prosecuted. Whether with the NYPD or the Southern District of New York (Giuliani and his henchmen). Would love to see Giuliani go down too.

[beachbum bob]

5. too much hyperbole, as the gOP doen't have to do anything at this point BUT be dismissive of our

justice system which opens up a major line of attack by all democrats in challenging America on who can you trust....Ignore trump supporters altogether and attack GOP for the acceptance and tolerance of corruption

[ffr]

6. Impeachment is the talk of the town now.

Only took a couple of years to prove what 66 million of us already knew.