An excellent article in the latest New Yorker by Adam Davidson does suggest now that Cohen is in the barrel, that the long national nightmare is going to be over for the second time. Are we there yet? Can we be confident that the nation will rebound from the worst Presidency ever.
Yes we are. Yes we can.
We may have still a thousand days to put up with the continuing foolishness, but there is now a tunnel for the end of the orange light. There will be several generations of healing needed, but like Watergate, the crooks eventually are revealed.
The democratic experiment will endure and survive what now has revealed itself to be the fundamental problems of neoliberal capitalism embodied in a Mighty Mango.
I endured/ignored the assholery of those opposed to PBO who are the core of those who support Lord Dampnut. They need their RWNJ psychos and 2020 will feature more of them, none with the corruption and stupidity of 45*
But now, even if imperfect (see pardoning Scooter), there still is a rule of law, however compromised by money and power. While every day left in the reign of Trump will be filled with lawfare of potentially the most vicious sort, like being hit in the head with a hammer, it will feel good when it stops.
Even if he were to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and then had Mueller and his investigation put on ice, and even if—as is disturbingly possible—Congress did nothing, the Cohen prosecution would continue.
Even if Trump pardons Cohen, the information the Feds have on him can become the basis for charges against others in the Trump Organization.
This is the week we know, with increasing certainty, that we are entering the last phase of the Trump Presidency. This doesn’t feel like a prophecy; it feels like a simple statement of the apparent truth.
Collusion is an imprecise word, but it does seem close to certain that his son Donald, Jr., and several people who worked for him colluded with people close to the Kremlin; it is up to prosecutors and then the courts to figure out if this was illegal or merely deceitful.
We may have a hard time finding out what President Trump himself knew and approved.
Those who hate Trump already think he’s a crook; those who love him don’t care.
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