Posted on 08/22/2018 9:49:19 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The plot to get President Trump out of office thickens, as Cohen obviously was his own mini-crime syndicate and decided that his betrayals of Trump meant he would be better served turning on his old boss to cut the best deal with prosecutors he could rather than holding out and getting the full Manafort treatment. That was clear the minute he hired attorney Lanny Davis, who doesn’t try cases and did past work for Hillary Clinton. Cohen had recorded his client, trying to entrap him, sold information about Trump (while acting as his lawyer) to corporations for millions of dollars, and didn’t pay taxes on millions.
Remember that the feds tried a similar strategy against Democrat John Edwards in the 2012 case and it failed. As Gregory Craig, a lawyer who worked both for President Clinton and Edwards, said: “The government’s theory is wrong on the facts and wrong on the law. It is novel and untested. There is no civil or criminal precedent for such a prosecution.” Hey, tried it there anyway and it failed.
Paying for nondisclosure agreements for perfectly legal activities is not a crime, not a campaign contribution as commonly understood or ruled upon by the FEC — and squeezing guilty pleas out of vulnerable witnesses does not change those facts.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Good comparison.
Who is the lowest low life? Cohen or Omarosa?
Close call, but Cohen probably betrayed more confidences.
Cohen.
“Obscure and unsettled”? How about “not illegal.” They had this POS on all sorts of REAL crimes and got him to plead to a couple of those, plus a non-crime, the latter to get at Trump. Now that’s tyranny no matter how you slice it
Everybody involved should be disbarred.
It’s so gratifying to see the Republican membership of the House, Senate and RNC streaming to the cameras and microphones in support of our President.
Rush is reading this article right now.
But no matter how many times he talks about the "silent coup", he never mentions that the GOP is just sitting on the sidelines, watching.
...bunch of pukes...
Ain't that the truth?
This is staggeringly bad. Our justice system is an embarrassment.
There I fixed the title of the article for you.
This outstanding article is the reason why Trump needs to switch from defense to offense - now. He needs to take down the DOJ/FBI - the material is there to do it, there are no deals to be made, he needs to nuke them with their own documents - now.
Chihuahuas nipping at the heels of a giant!
Somebody please tell me what paying ‘hush’ money to women has to do with campaign contributions.
I am hoping that Trump and Sessions are just biding their time. Let Mueller take his best shot. He’s got Manafort, he’s got Cohen, how much more do you think he will get? Once Mueller runs out of steam, Trump and Sessions can go on the offense and there will be almost no ammo to shoot back, having already played their hand and lost.
At least, that is my hope. Because this whole story that is being told is true, except that it is pure projection. Everything they accuse, they are guilty of. The names have been changed to protect the guilty. Replace Trump with Clinton. Replace KGB with FBI/CIA. Replace Putin with Brennan. Replace hacker with leaker. Collusion with Russia - yes, through the Perkins-Coie law firm and Fusion GPS and MI6 agents and Russian spies on behalf of Clinton. Campaign violations? Yes, paying Steele $10 million to pay Russian agents for dirt on Trump. Election interference? Yes, by the FBI and DOJ.
And since Mueller was kind enough to raid Trump’s law office, an FBI raid on Perkins-Coie (and perhaps other Clinton related firms) should be on the table.
They were so angry at losing, but this scheme was too over the top and imo cannot be allowed to stand. A lot of people need to go to prison.
If SES-sions is truly playing a game, it is by Rule of Skullduggery, and he is already guilty, regardless of motive.
He has illicitly abandoned his authority outside recusal to Rosenstein; he has conspired to stonewall Congressional, Constitutional, oversight. These are not his lawful prerogatives.
He has violated his Oath in multiple ways.
I can’t disagree with what you said at all.
My only responses are 1) I could be misreading it, or 2) he thinks this is in the best interests of justice. I don’t know if Sessions himself is the person ignoring Congress. We don’t know the internal dialogue inside the DOJ and Sessions could be ordering his staff to comply and they play coy games and stall in response.
But that aside, I would liken it to any kind of police investigation. The cops allow all kinds of crimes to continue uninterrupted during a larger investigation. For example they catch and release street drug dealers and watch them selling drugs for months on end just to catch the dealer’s supplier later on.
I cannot believe that Trump would allow himself to take all this fire without shooting back unless he had a strategy. He has always been of the “hit them back 10x harder” school. Why would he just sit on his hands? I don’t truly know but my guess is he thinks it is the better strategy. If Trump is innocent then what does he have to fear? Besides, the only thing that could possibly happen to Trump is that he is impeached and removed from office - and the odds of impeachments are very very low while the odds of 67 Senators voting to remove him are infinitesimal.
So Trump can sit back and let Mueller take his best shot, and when Mueller is out of steam and there is nothing left for the anti-Trump side to use to attack or distract from the counter-attack, that is when Sessions can let the deluge flow.
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