"Double standard?" President Donald Trump guffawed after Fox News anchor Ainsley Earhardt asked whether federal law enforcement has a double standard for how it handles allegations of wrongdoing by Republicans and Democrats.
For starters, Trump named "Awan," as in Imran Awan, a former House Democratic IT staffer who pleaded guilty to one count of lying on a loan application and was sentenced Tuesday in a federal court in Washington.
The same day, a federal jury in Virginia found former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty of five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud and one count of failing to disclose foreign bank accounts.
Trump remains baffled that Mueller's team is overturning every rock around the president to find collusion between his campaign and Russia while ignoring ties between Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic Party and the author of a so-called dossier of dirt on Trump from Russian sources.
On Fox News Channel, Trump also belittled his former personal attorney Michael Cohen, another Mueller target, for "Flipping" - agreeing to testify against others in exchange for a reduced sentence.
Still, by agreeing to plead guilty to eight counts, including two charges that involved the Trump campaign, Cohen won a lid of 63 months in prison.
Trump argued that the two counts of campaign finance violations are bogus, that Cohen's payments to buy the silence of two women who said they had sexual relations with Trump had nothing to do with his 2016 campaign.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/08/26/why_trump_sees_bias_at_the_justice_department_137898.html
For starters, Trump named "Awan," as in Imran Awan, a former House Democratic IT staffer who pleaded guilty to one count of lying on a loan application and was sentenced Tuesday in a federal court in Washington.
The same day, a federal jury in Virginia found former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty of five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud and one count of failing to disclose foreign bank accounts.
Trump remains baffled that Mueller's team is overturning every rock around the president to find collusion between his campaign and Russia while ignoring ties between Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic Party and the author of a so-called dossier of dirt on Trump from Russian sources.
On Fox News Channel, Trump also belittled his former personal attorney Michael Cohen, another Mueller target, for "Flipping" - agreeing to testify against others in exchange for a reduced sentence.
Still, by agreeing to plead guilty to eight counts, including two charges that involved the Trump campaign, Cohen won a lid of 63 months in prison.
Trump argued that the two counts of campaign finance violations are bogus, that Cohen's payments to buy the silence of two women who said they had sexual relations with Trump had nothing to do with his 2016 campaign.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/08/26/why_trump_sees_bias_at_the_justice_department_137898.html
No comments:
Post a Comment