The same kind of motivated thinking that pushed Republicans to believe in "Birtherism" just a few years ago now drives Democrats and liberals to think that Donald Trump has already been convicted of collusion with Russia.
Mueller wants to tear up the plea agreement he reached with Manafort because he says the former Trump campaign manager and all-around international wheeler-dealer has violated it.
Manafort had owed Deripaska money, and in 2016 he made an offer through Kilimnick to give the oligarch private briefings about the Trump campaign.
From Manafort's personal shadiness to campaign collusion and criminal behavior by Trump himself is a leap of faith: the evidence is so far lacking.
Bang!-smoking gun, right? Trump is going to be impeached, or maybe just arrested, tried and convicted the ordinary way, for breaking the campaign finance laws.
More seriously, there is the question of whether Cohen, as Trump's lawyer, was making specifically a campaign contribution with the payoffs or just doing the routine dirty work of a celebrity lawyer-it's not likely that Trump waited until he was running for president to start paying women off, after all.
They can hardly make a persuasive case for removing Trump over similarly trivial infractions now.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/case-trump-stronger-ever-38312
Mueller wants to tear up the plea agreement he reached with Manafort because he says the former Trump campaign manager and all-around international wheeler-dealer has violated it.
Manafort had owed Deripaska money, and in 2016 he made an offer through Kilimnick to give the oligarch private briefings about the Trump campaign.
From Manafort's personal shadiness to campaign collusion and criminal behavior by Trump himself is a leap of faith: the evidence is so far lacking.
Bang!-smoking gun, right? Trump is going to be impeached, or maybe just arrested, tried and convicted the ordinary way, for breaking the campaign finance laws.
More seriously, there is the question of whether Cohen, as Trump's lawyer, was making specifically a campaign contribution with the payoffs or just doing the routine dirty work of a celebrity lawyer-it's not likely that Trump waited until he was running for president to start paying women off, after all.
They can hardly make a persuasive case for removing Trump over similarly trivial infractions now.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/case-trump-stronger-ever-38312
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