Donald Trump has been credibly accused by his own lawyer of participating in a conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws.
I predict Trump will emerge from the Michael Cohen kerfuffle more powerful, more energized, and more electable than he was going in.
With great fanfare, prosecutors on Tuesday released a 22-page criminal information charging Cohen with five counts of tax evasion, one count of bank fraud, and two campaign-finance violations.
Where are the five-years-a-pop federal wiretapping charges for secretly taping conversations with Trump and others? Where are the de rigueur charges of lying to investigators? And most notably, where's the deep dive into Cohen's reported associations with members of New York's professional criminal class-the one that rhymes with "Snob"?
Of course, had more to offer-a credible allegation that Donald Trump instructed him to commit multiple campaign violations for the purpose of influencing the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
Given how complex and abstruse campaign finance laws are, can any candidates be 100 percent confident they committed zero violations? Or, more to the point, that they cannot be credibly alleged to have committed violations? A question that now hangs like a miasma over Washington-a question no sitting legislator really wants answered-is "Which of my staffers would hang me out to dry in order to avoid going to federal prison?" Do you think the folks at Fusion GPS wouldn't start singing like an aria of canaries if they got the Michael Cohen treatment from federal investigators taking a serious look at who paid for what opposition research with which funds?
Remember those free passes? I doubt many senators or representatives would be willing to give up their passes just to impeach President Trump.
http://reason.com/archives/2018/08/22/trump-might-be-a-criminal-but-so-is-ever
I predict Trump will emerge from the Michael Cohen kerfuffle more powerful, more energized, and more electable than he was going in.
With great fanfare, prosecutors on Tuesday released a 22-page criminal information charging Cohen with five counts of tax evasion, one count of bank fraud, and two campaign-finance violations.
Where are the five-years-a-pop federal wiretapping charges for secretly taping conversations with Trump and others? Where are the de rigueur charges of lying to investigators? And most notably, where's the deep dive into Cohen's reported associations with members of New York's professional criminal class-the one that rhymes with "Snob"?
Of course, had more to offer-a credible allegation that Donald Trump instructed him to commit multiple campaign violations for the purpose of influencing the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
Given how complex and abstruse campaign finance laws are, can any candidates be 100 percent confident they committed zero violations? Or, more to the point, that they cannot be credibly alleged to have committed violations? A question that now hangs like a miasma over Washington-a question no sitting legislator really wants answered-is "Which of my staffers would hang me out to dry in order to avoid going to federal prison?" Do you think the folks at Fusion GPS wouldn't start singing like an aria of canaries if they got the Michael Cohen treatment from federal investigators taking a serious look at who paid for what opposition research with which funds?
Remember those free passes? I doubt many senators or representatives would be willing to give up their passes just to impeach President Trump.
http://reason.com/archives/2018/08/22/trump-might-be-a-criminal-but-so-is-ever
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