Trump Spells “Infidelity” with Two Ds

“Meet.”

Just out of curiosity, what do we all think Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson would be saying if the chiron under their faces read: “President Obama Calls Porn Star, With Whom He Had An Affair That His Lawyer Told FBI Investigators He Paid Hush Money To Cover Up Prior To His Election, A ‘Horse Face’”?

Just out of curiosity.

Very likely former President, because they’d have whipped their frothing flying monkeys into such a rage that it’s likely impeachment hearings would have been concluded months before it came to that.

In isolation, it would be wall to wall coverage of it. But if President Obama had a new scandal every single day, Fox News would be overwhelmed, not knowing what to cover, what to focus on and drill into people’s heads repeatedly.

Each show would cover a different scandal. I don’t know why CNN doesn’t do that instead of spending 4 hours every evening talking about the same one, over and over again.

Time and effort?

Breaking WSJ story:

Hooboy.

Why is this breaking though? Didn’t we already have proof that Trump lied with the Cohen payoffs? No one other than Democrats even gives a shit that he’s been paying off women and lying about it. They’ll keep voting for him. I keep waiting for something to actually matter instead of “Look, Trump lied about this too!” stories that just keep adding to the massive pile of insanity.

No. 2345

He seems to have clearly directed a major violation of campaign finance laws, and deliberately acted in a way to prevent investigation of that violation, which also is no bueno.

But what will actually happen? The House can investigate this in January, McConnell will shrug it off, voters will forget about it in 2020, and he’ll just get away with it. There’ll be at least 20-30 more administration-ending level scandals by the time the next elections roll around.

Not sure what authority Mitch McConnell has over federal prosecutors here.

Not Mitch, no, but DOJ policy is that the President can’t be indicted, isn’t it? So the prosecutors are handcuffed.

Yep, he has none.

But isn’t this why Trump picked Kavanaugh? To ensure that, whatever the Manhattan DA or NY AG come up with, he still can’t be indicted?

I guess we’ll see. We can be sure there are some very smart lawyers working in both of those offices, so this may end up as a something-burger. I nonetheless suspect that the only real remedies will be political ones, with the trial set two years from last Tuesday.

And to be clear: this is apparently all in the SDNY offices, and not part of Mueller’s investigation explicitly.

I am pretty certain he can be indicted by the State of New York, if they want to, if the state wants to bring charges against him.

Why did they let him on a plane & leave the country?

The other real consequences, even shy of direct prosecution of Trump:

  1. They go after and seize Trump properties and assets
  2. They go after and indict Trump friends and allies in state courts not subject to Presidential pardon
  3. Friends and family and allies subject to asset forfeiture and seizure and prison time start rolling over even more…

May all of this happen and soon!