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6 Takeaways About Paul Manafort And Michael Cohen’s Legal Woes
The Federalist ^ | August 22,2018 | Mollie Hemingway

Posted on 08/22/2018 1:10:51 PM PDT by Hojczyk

1. Nothing To Do With Russia

2. Fraud Is Bad. Although the charges have nothing to do with Russia, that doesn’t mean Manafort and Cohen aren’t shady and corrupt

.3. Infidelity Is Destructive

This sordid tale of non-disclosure agreements signed with two pornography actresses should be a warning to anyone who even thinks about cheating that there is much to be lost from the act.

4. Targeted For Political Connections. These cases are really about Trump, and those who helped him take on the establishment. The goal, of course, is to remove Trump from office some way, some how.

5. Campaign Finance Violations Might Implicate Trump, But Might Not.....There is also some disagreement about how an undisclosed non-disclosure agreement,

6. A Trap For The Resistance?

Now, maybe the critics are right, and the American people who were promised treasonous collusion with Russia will notice the lack of treasonous collusion with Russia but be moved to impeach by an alleged campaign finance violation or the knowledge that Trump associated with political operatives and lawyers who failed to pay taxes. Maybe they’re right.

this is yet another example of overreach from an elite establishment out of touch with the American electorate that put Trump in power and that the previous attempts to unseat President Trump from his rightful election will bear poorly on latter-day attempts. Democrats, Never Trump, and some media voices have been calling for impeachment for months, if not years. The details for impeachment are unimportant since the real crime seems to have been winning the 2016 election.

The New York Times’s Maggie Haberman says political consultants are expecting cries for impeachment will be central before the midterms. At least one Republican consultant says that’s an argument that motivates Republican voters and helps them understand the stakes of the election.

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: cohenpleadsguilty; cohentherat; manafortverdict; molliehemingway; therat
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1 posted on 08/22/2018 1:10:51 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Is unproven “alleged” infidelity destructive or do women just naturally side with a woman (even a proven whore) in a he said, she said argument?


2 posted on 08/22/2018 1:13:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

every woman is a unique individual ...


3 posted on 08/22/2018 1:18:33 PM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: Hojczyk

Mollie’s husband has been twittering away that this would never have happened if Pence was elected. Who would have elected HIM president?


4 posted on 08/22/2018 1:19:52 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Hojczyk

Cohen and Manafort are nothing but a big fat Nothing Burger. The enemedia will spastically try and spin this as the end for Trump.

But the vast majority of sheeple in America could not care less.

This will drop off the news cycle by tomorrow and something else will take its place.


5 posted on 08/22/2018 1:20:06 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: miss marmelstein

Her what now???


6 posted on 08/22/2018 1:20:36 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: bankwalker

I’d like to hear from every woman on this forum who stumbles upon my question. Are Stormy Daniels and the Playboy Playmate more believable in this case than the sitting president of the United States?


7 posted on 08/22/2018 1:23:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Is unproven “alleged” infidelity destructive or do women just naturally side with a woman (even a proven whore) in a he said, she said argument?

The word "alleged" is never, never used in connection with any of the horrible things PDJT is accused of having done, for that matter anyone has ever thought he might have done, or that anyone has ever wished he had done.

8 posted on 08/22/2018 1:27:47 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Hojczyk

So.. what’s on the agenda for next week’s left wing nut outrage?


9 posted on 08/22/2018 1:30:11 PM PDT by chief lee runamok (mongrel at large)
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To: Hojczyk

Yesterday Blumenthall the talking head and total a-hole from CT said on some show, cant recall which, that,”Every American will remember where they were and what they were doing” when the Manafort decision came down.

This guy is delusional.
2/3 cont care


10 posted on 08/22/2018 1:36:42 PM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nope.


11 posted on 08/22/2018 1:38:30 PM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: Hojczyk

Crooked Prosecutors! Gestapo and probably covered up for Clinton in 9/11.


12 posted on 08/22/2018 1:49:20 PM PDT by Herman Ball (2)
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Ever lovin’ thanks for paralyzing and completely screwing things up Jeff. What a warrior.


13 posted on 08/22/2018 1:53:37 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: miss marmelstein
NOBODY!

There aren't enough RINOS, out there, even though Hilary was running, to have bothered to vote for Pence, who was NOT even in the damned "CATTLE CALL" of a primary! Ergo, that happenstance is moot.

14 posted on 08/22/2018 1:58:18 PM PDT by nopardons
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I don’t believe them, but even if I did, the Democrats must be stopped.
I would vote for a blatant adulterer to stop the socialist onslaught the Democrats promise.
Female, age 73.


15 posted on 08/22/2018 2:05:35 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: nopardons

I was hoping you’d way in.


16 posted on 08/22/2018 2:07:08 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Hojczyk
"This sordid tale of non-disclosure agreements signed with two pornography actresses should be a warning to anyone who even thinks about cheating that there is much to be lost from the act."

Mollie, there's much more to be lost from believing gossip issued by mobs of clucking hens.


17 posted on 08/22/2018 2:09:41 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: bankwalker
"every woman is a unique individual ..."

Every comment that I've seen from a woman here about a possible Pence presidency stated that he's boring or something else to that effect.

How Dramatically Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?

JOHN R. LOTT Jr.
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) (download links for whole document at bottom of page)

September 1998

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 60
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, Number 6, Part 1, pp. 1163-1198, December 1999

Abstract:
This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870 to 1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.


18 posted on 08/22/2018 2:24:29 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: bankwalker

They said the same about Scott Walker, Duncan Hunter Sr. and other excellent candidates. Boring, not exciting enough, etc.


19 posted on 08/22/2018 2:28:53 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Bell Bouy II

Conviction of 8 of 18 counts doesn’t leave me with any feeling other than the prosecution was spraying $#!t on the walls to see what stuck.


20 posted on 08/22/2018 2:38:14 PM PDT by pfflier
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