Considering the continuing lie-fest rallies, Stunt-POTUS* antics on the “campaign trail” are going to get worse as #TrumpRussia closes in.
The cult-followers will engage as they did this week with a RWNJ swatting a bomb threat at CNN’s NYC studios, and more actual domestic terror will ensue. Pittsburgh’s GabShooter and Florida’s MAGAbomber are only the beginning.
In the sentencing memo Friday, prosecutors formally endorsed Cohen’s story, writing, “Cohen himself has now admitted, with respect to both payments, he acted in coordination with and at the direction of Individual-1” — a.k.a. the president.
Thus, it’s quite plausible that the only reason Donald Trump has not been indicted on federal charges is because he is the president. The conventional wisdom among legal scholars holds that the commander-in-chief cannot be indicted so long as he or she remains in office. That means that if Trump loses in 2020, he could promptly find himself in legal jeopardy. If he wins, he could forever escape all legal liability for his part in Cohen’s crimes — the statute of limitations on a campaign-finance violation committed in 2016 would likely expire in 2022.
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Some progressives have worried that Trump might actually be able to turn the threat of a postelection indictment into a source of electoral strength. The idea being: If the sitting president can (somewhat credibly) campaign against a deep-state plot to “lock him up,” then the Democratic nominee will struggle to focus attention on Trump’s policy failures and substantive betrayals of working people, where he is arguably most vulnerable. But that particular fear seems unfounded. Trump’s myriad scandals haven’t alienated the GOP base, but they appear to have damaged him with just about everyone else.
What will Individual-1 do to stay out of prison. Dog-wagging looms like the troops on the border stunt.
An alternate-reality show presidency.
Is this how Trump enlisted support from Rand Paul and Lindsey Graham… or is this involved with that corresponding GRU hacking of the RNC which we have yet to hear about.