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How Donald Trump Got Caught in a Legal Vise
The breadth of investigations is so sweeping that they may hang over the president and his entourage long after Robert Muellers probe is finished.
By Timothy L. O'Brien
December 17, 2018, 7:00 AM EST
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-17/donald-trump-s-legal-vise-how-the-probes-have-proliferated
As President Donald Trump and his lawyers turn toward the new year, theyll have to contend with a legal narrative thats taken fuller shape through a flurry of court filings and news reports that began landing about three weeks ago and extended through Friday afternoon: Members of Trumps presidential campaign and possibly Individual 1 himself may have orchestrated a number of criminal conspiracies that took root before and during the 2016 presidential campaign, continued after Trump won the election, and have tainted the White Houses policies and torn at its operations ever since.
The breadth of investigations is so sweeping as many on social media and reporters with the Washington Post, the Associated Press, and Bloomberg News have already noted that few of the worlds Trump inhabits have escaped prosecutors attention. The Trump Organization, the Trump Foundation, the Trump family, the Trump campaign, the Trump transition, the Trump inauguration, and the Trump White House are all being probed for wrongdoing.
The Trump teams possible collusion with Russia to sabotage and tilt the 2016 election, a probe spearheaded by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, pulls many strands of the investigations together. Trumplandias intersection with Russia may have started with business propositions more than a decade ago (such as the Trump SoHo hotel and condominium), and included more recent undertakings like a project in Moscow, before evolving into a political partnership during the 2016 campaign after Trumps presidential prospects brightened.
But there are many other threads, some related to Russia and some not, that investigators are pulling on. The Trump inauguration raised $107 million, and $40 million of that amount remains unaccounted for; Ivanka Trump, according to a joint report from ProPublica and WNYC, refereed payments to Trumps Washington hotel during the inauguration. The Wall Street Journal said last week that federal investigators are examining whether inauguration donors gave money in exchange for policy favors.
The breadth of investigations is so sweeping that they may hang over the president and his entourage long after Robert Muellers probe is finished.
By Timothy L. O'Brien
December 17, 2018, 7:00 AM EST
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-17/donald-trump-s-legal-vise-how-the-probes-have-proliferated
As President Donald Trump and his lawyers turn toward the new year, theyll have to contend with a legal narrative thats taken fuller shape through a flurry of court filings and news reports that began landing about three weeks ago and extended through Friday afternoon: Members of Trumps presidential campaign and possibly Individual 1 himself may have orchestrated a number of criminal conspiracies that took root before and during the 2016 presidential campaign, continued after Trump won the election, and have tainted the White Houses policies and torn at its operations ever since.
The breadth of investigations is so sweeping as many on social media and reporters with the Washington Post, the Associated Press, and Bloomberg News have already noted that few of the worlds Trump inhabits have escaped prosecutors attention. The Trump Organization, the Trump Foundation, the Trump family, the Trump campaign, the Trump transition, the Trump inauguration, and the Trump White House are all being probed for wrongdoing.
The Trump teams possible collusion with Russia to sabotage and tilt the 2016 election, a probe spearheaded by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, pulls many strands of the investigations together. Trumplandias intersection with Russia may have started with business propositions more than a decade ago (such as the Trump SoHo hotel and condominium), and included more recent undertakings like a project in Moscow, before evolving into a political partnership during the 2016 campaign after Trumps presidential prospects brightened.
But there are many other threads, some related to Russia and some not, that investigators are pulling on. The Trump inauguration raised $107 million, and $40 million of that amount remains unaccounted for; Ivanka Trump, according to a joint report from ProPublica and WNYC, refereed payments to Trumps Washington hotel during the inauguration. The Wall Street Journal said last week that federal investigators are examining whether inauguration donors gave money in exchange for policy favors.
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How Donald Trump Got Caught in a Legal Vise (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Dec 2018
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calimary
(81,192 posts)1. Dang! And the hits just keep on coming.
Sneederbunk
(14,289 posts)2. Trump's most sensitive parts are caught the vise.
More prosecutors than just Mueller are turning the handle.
PCIntern
(25,518 posts)3. They're gonna get toasted on Pennsylvania Avenue
methinks.