Maddow: Cohen testimony could give prosecutors leverage to 'negotiate' a deal where Trump resigns

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Maddow explains how Cohen testimony could give prosecutors leverage to ‘negotiate’ a deal where Trump resigns from office

BOB BRIGHAM 26 FEB 2019 AT 22:19 ET

Maddow noted the benefits to prosecutors of using a sealed indictment.

“First, it would effectively stop the clock on any statute of limitations and crimes committed by the president,” she noted. “That would make it so the president couldn’t use his de facto immunity from prosecution while he’s serving in office to run out the clock on the statute of the limitations for any of his crimes.”

“Of course, the second major benefit to prosecutors, if they brought a potential sealed indictment against the president, is that that could set the stage for negotiations of the same kind that the Justice Department entered into with Spiro Agnew in 1973,” she noted.

Maddow noted Trump could, “trade away his resignation — just like Agnew did, in exchange for prosecutors making some or all of the charges go away.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/maddow-explains-cohen-testimony-give-prosecutors-leverage-negotiate-deal-trump-resigns-office/

[jcgoldie]

1. As much as I despise Trump with all of my being

... I don't want the charges to go away and let him walk absolved of all his crimes, especially if it means president Pence...

[OliverQ]

3. They could reduce the federal charges and just allow New York to prosecute

him on State charges.

[Iliyah]

2. This.

He and his family and cronies and majority of the GOPs are criminals and unpatriotic. I want to see many more indictments.

[Javaman]

4. the orange asshole won't resign...

someone posted on DU a while ago that the only way the orange asshole lives is via swat team and hand cuffs.

[Dave Starsky]

5. He will never, ever leave under his own power.

He doesn't even like the job, but he sticks around because he knows it's the only thing keeping him out of the back of a squad car. For now.

If (when) he loses the election in 2020, I fully expect him to claim voter fraud / election fraud / whatever and remain in office while the Republicans in the Senate "investigate" for four years. He may even then ignore the term limits in the Constitution. The GOP will do sweet FA about it, and the US media will just shrug their shoulders and say, "Well, that's Trump!"