Yesterday was a bad day for Putin’s Puppet, Fuehrer of the Republican Reich. Not only was his Campaign Manager, Paul Manafart, convicted on eight counts, but also, his fixer, Michael Cohen pled that he interfered with the election by bribing Trump’s affairs, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal to buy their silence. He made those illegal bribes "In coordination with, and at the direction of a candidate for federal office. Would you care to guess who that candidate was?
U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen testified on Tuesday that Trump had directed him to commit a crime by arranging payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election to silence two women who said they had affairs with Trump…
…Cohen’s accusation increases political pressure for Trump ahead of November’s congressional elections where Democrats are trying to regain control of the House of Representatives and Senate.
Cohen told Judge William Pauley III that “in coordination with, and at the direction of, a candidate for federal office” he arranged payments to two women for their silence “for the principal purpose of influencing the election.”… [emphasis added]
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Lawrence O’Donnell covered the story.
No matter what Republicans say, I refuse to believe that Hillary did it.
RESIST!!
VOTE BLUE!!
76 DAYS!!
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Yeah, I don’t think Stormy and Karen are Hillary’s type. Of course the irony is that events have shown the money was wasted. His trolodytes would never have held his sexual conduct against him. Certainly not with adult women. In fact, he could probably have been caught alone with a dead 8-year-old girl or a live 8-year-old boy and it wouldn’t have mattered to his troglodytes.
The Republican Party has now indeed been PROVEN to be a criminal enterprise. Which means that anyone who votes for any Republican at the national level or for Governor will now be an unindicted co-conspirator. Yes, your ballot is secret, and yes, you can’t be prosecuted for a vote, but if you admit it publicly, we will know who you are.
And for those who are wondering why I exempted Republicans running for lower offices than that, it’s because I am willing to admit exceptions, and I can’t identify where they are. Many who vote for Republicans at lower levels will also be unindicted co-conspirators, I just can’t identify them with certainty at a distance.
Oh, and Lindsay is clearly a blackmail victim. That appears to me to be crystal clear. Blackmail by Putin. I just can’t be sure for what.
PTL !!! What a day! Glad that Cohen grew a spine too, in that, he said he will not accept a pardon from trump either, (if it were forthcoming.) Excellent piece by Lawrence also.
I hope that these are the first two stitches popping in the inevitable unraveling of the tRump regime.
Yesterday will go down in history, hopefully as the beginning of the end of a terrible, horrible, no good POS!
I posted a piece by Charles P. Pierce on the historical import of this administration*. He told of having lived through the Saturday Massacre, Watergate, and more, but “There never was anything like this:” http://www.care2.com/news/member/565542931/4116502
Most of us lived through Nixon’s filth and greed, but……………….
A historical moment, yes, but also a sad one. I followed the unravelling on the media of four countries (Oz, Holland, UK and US) and they ALL agreed on a number of things: Drumpf ordered his lawyer Cohen to break the law on his behest to influence his campaign, but unlike Cohen, Drumpf will not be prosecuted for this because the office of president protects him from that (for now). However, Drumpf can (and all said “should” in so many words) be impeached for it, but in this political climate that WILL NOT happen.
I think it is a sad day when the whole world knows the president of the US is a crook, but that the American Congress is filled with equally crooked members of a majority party who will protect their candidate and president, and their own a$$, NO MATTER WHAT.
How sweet is it that Twitler confesses to helping commit a FELONY during an interview on “Faux news” (sic)?!?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/22/1790180/-Trump-confesses-in-Fox-News-interview-to-aiding-felony-as-co-conspirator
Love the Trump lexicon at the end of the piece! Trump does not need Giuliani to screw things up for him . . . he does just fine all by himself!
As I understand things from some previous discussions here and on some reading over the past few days, Diaper Don cannot be charged with federal crimes because of the office he holds and some DOJ rules. But he could be charged if the charges are state charges. Am I correct? I also seem to remember that Mueller turned the Cohen matter over to state authorities in New York. If this is the case, could DD be charged in state court? Does Cohen’s admission “at the direction of” provide sufficient impetus for the state to file charges against DD?
In my book, DD is as guilty as sin but it would seem that it is about lining up all the ducks in a row! Of course nothing is easy, but . . .
I believe it was in an AlterNet article that it was noted by WH staff that DD has been very quiet, the ‘calm before a storm’ so to speak. I wonder if DD is taking personal stock and contemplating his resignation à la Nixon? I doubt it because DD hates losers and that scenario would force him to acknowledge that he failed. His narcissistic self could not handle that!
As to my questions, it just now dawned on me that I may be confusing the pardon power that DD has — he cannot pardon state crimes, only federal — but please unconfused me!
The guidelines the DOJ has which dictate that a sitting president cannot be indicted are just that – guidelines. They don’t have the force of law. Also, because the DOJ has no jurisdiction over violations of state laws, its guidelines don’t apply to the states. In practice, I understand that to imply that if the Federal Government has a similar law stricter than the state law, the DOJ can prosecute – but as a federal offense – an act a state refuses to prosecute. That’s the stand they are taking on marijuana … though not as hardline as they would like because of the blowback.) But if the Federal Government has a similar law to a state law which is harsher, or no law at all on the same subject, it can’t prevent a state from indicting and prosecuting under its own law. IANAL, so I certainly could be wrong (wouldn’t be the first time … or the last).
At some point in the past, DOJ issued an opinion that, if indictment was in order, it could be done after impeachment. That opinion has never been tested in court. He cannot pardon state crimes.
Thanks and muggy hugs!