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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDavid Frum: The country now faces a choice between the Trump presidency and the rule of law.
Good comment.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2018/08/the-atlantic-daily-august-22-2018/568141/
Corruption Convictions: Michael Cohens guilty plea for campaign-finance violations poses a serious problem for Donald Trumpnot only because it implicates the president in a crime, but also because the Justice Department evidently accepts Cohens allegation that Trump directed his actions. Even so, the white-collar crimes to which Cohen pleaded guilty and of which Trumps former campaign chair Paul Manafort was convicted frequently go unpunishedand may not fit into the understanding of corruption held by Trumps core supporters. Now, David Frum writes, Americans face a choice: The country can have the rule of law, or it can keep the Trump presidency.
The President Is a Crook
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/the-president-is-a-crook/568123/
The country now faces a choice between the Trump presidency and the rule of law.
David Frum
9:18 AM ET
So now its confirmed, as a matter of legal record, that President Donald Trump organized a scheme to violate federal election laws. He directed his longtime personal attorney to pay at least one woman for silence. That attorney got the money by lying to a bank to get a home-equity line of credit.
Its a matter of legal record, too, that Trumps campaign chair was a huge-scale crook. Despite his desperate financial straits, he volunteered to work for Trump for freeand Trump accepted.
These two cases complete the beginnings of the story. They are not the story in full. The Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort cases are like the first rocky outcroppings a ship passes as it makes landfall. They are examples of the kind of people willing to work for Trumpand the way that those people carried on their business. They indicate why one of Trumps sons would write I love it when offered stolen information about the Hillary Clinton campaign by a purported representative of the Russian government, how so much doubtful money flowed into the Trump Organization after 2006, and why Trump dares not publish his tax returns.
House Speaker Paul Ryans office replied to a query from The Washington Post about the Cohen case: We are aware of Mr. Cohens guilty plea to these serious charges. We will need more information than is currently available at this point. Of course, a major priority of Ryans speakership has been to protect himself and his party against unearthing more information about Trumps campaign, Trumps businesses, and Trumps finances. But despite his incuriosity, more information will almost certainly head his way, unless
Unless President Trump somehow finds a way to shut it down.
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Stuart G
(38,439 posts)and for the "Rule of Law"...Trump thinks he may have had a bad day. But the day after this election will make yesterday look like a picnic. I believe Trump doesn't have a clue..