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Cohen Has Knowledge of Russia Campaign Conspiracy Lawyer Says

Discussion in 'Political Debate & Discussion' started by FollowTheWay, Aug 22, 2018.

  1. FollowTheWay

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    Shannon Pettypiece Jennifer Jacobs Terrence Dopp
    August 22, 2018, 8:19 AM EDT

    ‘A Criminal President’
    “It’s a big day, it’s a bad day,” said John Dean, former White House counsel for Richard Nixon, on the implications of Cohen’s plea on Trump and his presidency. “I think we’ve established today that we have a criminal president, and that is historic.”

    If Trump knew about the payments and that they were illegal, he could be charged with violating election law for accepting illegal payments and not disclosing them, said Paul S. Ryan, a campaign finance lawyer with Common Cause. Current Justice Department guidelines state that a sitting president cannot be indicted, and that any wrongdoing should be referred to Congress for impeachment proceedings. Those guidelines aren’t binding.
     
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    John Dean would sell his mother to Sudanese Muslim slave traders if he could make a dollar. And who pays any attention to Common Cause?
     
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    I don't see anything in your quoted material about John Dean that indicates Cohen has knowledge of Russia campaign collusion.

    In fact, I don't see the name of his lawyer in the body of text you quoted.

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    What payments did Trump accept?
     
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    Why aren't the Justice department guidelines, which reference the Constitution, which calls for the President to be impeached for any crimes, not binding?


    To state it more simply--why isn't the Constitution binding in this (hypothetical) case?

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    starting at 2:40
     
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    Thank you.
     
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    The Mueller Kangaroo court (Investigation) is the Strzok "Insurance Policy" to garner together enough testimonies to fabricate "high crimes and/or misdemeanors" in a coup attempt to topple Trump.

    We will probably see bigger than life size images of the faces of Manafort/Cohen trumpeted as conspirators in crime with the "criminal" Donald Trump broadcast across the nation now until the mid term elections.

    Expect public rejoicing among the marxist progressives.
     
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    And total indifference among working people. Sessions should be fired right away.
     
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    Lanny Davis is a Clinton hack. Why would any Republican want a Democrat lawyer? Cohen must be dumb.
     
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    Cohen should have known better. He did nothing wrong except hire Davis, who is gloating that he lost the case. I would not trust Lanny Davis any farther than I could throw him, which wouldn't be very far at all. He might as well have hired Bill Clinton himself since Bill would be an expert in the type of person who was blackmailing Trump.
     
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    NO direct proof yet offerred that Trump know of it, and that woud not be an Impeachable offense anyways!
     
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    The payment was not illegal.
     
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    The tape thta I heard stated that the Donald did NOT aprove of it also!
     
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    Cohen thought that the Democrats would get him off the hook and instead they got him 3-5 years. New Yorkers are the usual cold-hearted liberals. It's hard to care about a lawyer going to prison, if he ever does. Maybe Davis will get him off on appeal since Cohen seems to have done nothing wrong in the first place but what a shady lawyer to tape his own clients. My guess is that he will never practice again but it sounds as if he is mostly as businessman who had a law license. If he was spending Trump's money, then Trump by law can spend all the money that he wants on his campaign but a porn actress had nothing to do with the campaign in the first place so Cohen got suckered by Davis. It's like what do you call ten thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean--a good start.
     
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    This was Dean's assessment of the situation from the perspective of someone who's familiar with this kind of situation.
     
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    Well your thread title has nothing to do with what you posted. Kind of strange.
     
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    So you're saying that someone convicted by a judge and jury of a felony in America did nothing wrong? Do you believe in the rule of law?
     
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