Crooked Donald's reckoning has arrived

[dajoki]

Donald Trump's reckoning has arrived
After Michael Cohen’s day in court, the president is in very real legal jeopardy. It’s 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 Trump’s 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 Cohen’s payments, made at Trump’s 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 Attorney’s investigations were all lies. His lawyers claimed that a sitting vice-president couldn’t be indicted. Both of those arguments collapsed. As one of Agnew’s 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 nation’s capital and beyond. The downfall of Pablo Escobar’s 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]

1. The 2nd Manafort trial will reveal even more.......

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]

2. Off to the greatest page

for thee.

[dajoki]

3. How the President Can Be Prosecuted as a Criminal

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100211032288

[Maeve]

4. Great beginning to that (rif of Oscar Wilde)

To lose one of your inner-circle to criminal charges may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose two on the same day looks like carelessness.

[2naSalit]

5. K&R!!