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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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To: Hojczyk

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21 posted on 08/22/2018 2:44:55 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine. Even tho physically free, Tommy's not free yet. He's still facing charges.)
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To: Hojczyk

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.

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If Republican voters don’t recognize this, they’re probably dead. If they don’t prevail in the election, they’re actually dead.


22 posted on 08/22/2018 2:45:10 PM PDT by Flick Lives ("When they go low, we go spy." - Hillary Clinton campaign slogan)
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To: Hojczyk

I like Mollie. Thanks for posting.


23 posted on 08/22/2018 2:48:37 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (If I knew when I was going to need my gun, I wouldn't need my gun.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Well, I did; hope you liked the post. :-)


24 posted on 08/22/2018 2:49:43 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

I did, lol.


25 posted on 08/22/2018 2:50:11 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

Good!


26 posted on 08/22/2018 2:50:45 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I just don’t get it. These women aren’t screaming rape. They are saying I slept with a married rich guy and I want money. There is a name for women like this. Now they’ve gone back for the second bite of the apple.


27 posted on 08/22/2018 2:56:51 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: familyop; nopardons
What crap. Woman's suffrage has nothing to do with Pence not being able to make it to the presidency on his own. Trump made it because of his refusal to mitigate his point of view or bow to pc-ism unlike his opponents.

Pence went to Hamilton where they humiliated him from the stage and he gave a mealy-mouthed little response later. I don't like his obsequious manner. That said, if he was the Republican nominee, I would vote for him. Wouldn't be my first choice.

I will say that he made a good opponent to the oily and awful Tim Kaine during the debates. For that I salute him.

28 posted on 08/22/2018 2:56:55 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein; familyop
Re "WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE"...it has been proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that when women won the vote, married women ( the vast majority of them, at that time and for many decades afterwards ) women voted like their husbands did; which is still not that much off the mark.

Pence IS "boring", lacks not only charisma, but also any kind of "presence" and speaking ability, is a damned squish, Heapish man, and a worse than Romney candidate for anything. He has no answers for anything and never has had.

Though yes, whilst he managed to be a better debater than the oleaginous Kane, that's not saying much.

29 posted on 08/22/2018 3:22:40 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am sick and tired of these whore stories. If some politicians try to remove Trump over whore stories, they are going to have one hell of a fight on their hands.

Reporters are belittling themselves by giving so much attention to these whore stories.


30 posted on 08/22/2018 3:23:20 PM PDT by abclily
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To: miss marmelstein
"Pence went to Hamilton where they humiliated him from the stage and he gave a mealy-mouthed little response later. I don't like his obsequious manner."

I didn't know about that and searched for information. My condolences to him and his family in regards to their exotic tour. Under the circumstances, he represented the U.S.A. in a dignified and polite manner.

How Mike Pence stole the show at ‘Hamilton’
The Washington Post
By Ana Swanson, Amy B Wang
November 19, 2016
"The actor who currently stars as Alexander Hamilton, Javier Muñoz, is Latino and openly gay. And Friday evening also sought to raise money for AIDS-related services as part of the annual Broadway Cares campaign. Theater and the arts have long been havens for members of the LGBT community,..."

Pence says he ‘wasn’t offended’ by ‘Hamilton’ as Trump continues to demand an apology
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/11/20/pence-says-he-wasnt-offended-by-hamilton-as-trump-continues-to-demand-an-apology/


31 posted on 08/22/2018 3:54:15 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: chief lee runamok

Urban Meyer


32 posted on 08/22/2018 3:56:27 PM PDT by shalom aleichem (Fire them all even though the heavens fall. (Fiat justitia ruat cælum))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No


33 posted on 08/22/2018 4:03:08 PM PDT by tiki
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To: Hojczyk

7. How many children were murdered in Democrat run cities while the Democrats were getting Manafort and Cohen?


34 posted on 08/22/2018 4:25:16 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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To: nopardons

Yes. I agree. He’s a nice looking man and presented a lot better than Kaine. That aside, I have nothing more to say about him except that Heapish manner of his which disturbs me.

He didn’t steal the show at Hamilton, either. He sat there and took it - just like W would have.


35 posted on 08/22/2018 5:50:25 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein
Thanks!

I agree with everything you said about Pence!

36 posted on 08/22/2018 6:57:49 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: miss marmelstein
Mollie’s husband has been twittering away that this would never have happened if Pence was elected. Who would have elected HIM president?

Wow, really?? What is Mollie's husband's name again? I take it Mollie and hubby don't agree on a lot of things. ;-)

37 posted on 08/22/2018 9:40:21 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: nutmeg

I wouldn’t be too sure of that.

I don’t know his first name. The last is Hemingway.


38 posted on 08/23/2018 4:25:43 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

Not I. He is the UniParty’s George Bush to DJT’s Ronald Reagan: Trojan Horse.


39 posted on 08/23/2018 3:23:31 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Hojczyk

I do not condone Donald Trump’s past immorality, some of which is a matter of record.

This however is all vicious and illegal lawfare - and the UniParty is loving it.


40 posted on 08/23/2018 3:25:57 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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