Posted on 12/12/2018 11:46:31 AM PST by conservative98
The “Life, Liberty & Levin” host at Fox News broke down the issue into five bullet points, which read in part:
“A sitting president CANNOT be indicted. That’s official DOJ policy since 1973.”
“SDNY is NOT expert in campaign finance violations and neither is the Clinton appointed district judge. They rarely handle campaign finance cases. The left-wing media and politicians are regurgitating what the prosecutors have merely filed in their own self-serving brief. The media and others intentionally refuse to look at the actual rules and context. They refuse to even question what these prosecutors have thrown together.”
“The actual campaign rules and context do NOT include Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) or infinite other contracts, payments, arrangements, acts of a private nature, etc. as campaign contributions. This is normal human behavior and was never intended to be regulated or reported. SDNY is dead wrong.”
“[SDNY prosecutors] knew they couldn’t charge a sitting president. Thus, they convict the president in the press, not only an extreme act of professional misconduct but a violation of the very purpose of the DOJ memos banning the indictment of a sitting president while effectively indicting him in the court of public opinion, and watch as untold numbers of media personalities and former members of the SDNY, among others, use this dirty work to predict or demand the president’s indictment and/or impeachment.”
“As for impeachment, NDAs involving wholly private matters occurring before the president was even a candidate and completely unrelated to his office cannot legitimately trigger the Constitution’s impeachment clause. Indeed, they could not be more irrelevant. The history of the clause and its ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ language make it crystal clear that the office and the president’s duties are not affected in any conceivable way by these earlier private contracts.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
And on Fox...
Mark Levin: A Time For Truth
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/mark-levin-a-time-for-truth
What the press is trying to do is to convict Donald Trump for being Donald Trump. It is not going to work!
Levin has it dead on.
The permanent Clinton bureaucracy is using every dirty trick and abuse of the legal system to sling mud and get people spun up on their fake talking points.
Cohen was tricked and then screwed. He plead guilty to non-existent crimes ( a Comey/Mueller/Weisssman specialty, ask Martha Stewart) and also “crimes” that were actually administrative infractions which can either be negotiated or litigated in front of an administrative law judge.
The whole thing is a set from the get. And in the process, destroying the balance of the American legal system.
What they have done is everything the Colonists fought the British to rid themselves of (see my FR handle).
Welcome to the USSR..where, if I dont like you, dont like your political views, I am going to destroy you, your family, anyone that ever served you a meal, anyone that ever looked at you, they will all be destroyed
This has nothing to do with Donald Trump..this has to do with sending a message, for ANYONE in the future that wants to run for President that even THINKS like Donald Trump, dont even consider running, not even for a split second, because this is your future
Yeah, so why was none of this argued before the judge? Oh, Because Michael Cohen sold his soul to Lanny Davis and the Clintonistas. There has not even been a minimal defense mounted for Cohen, merely an acceptance of the b.s. lies from Mueller and the SDNY.
That is certainly one of the main purposes - along with concealing their own abundant and horrendous crimes.
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