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Trump wants the process to be hopelessly tainted
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Trump wants the process to be hopelessly tainted
By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
December 3 at 3:25 PM
President Trump has spent a lifetime pondering the complexities of moral desert, and so he is outraged that the man who operated as his personal fixer for so long may escape justice:
{snip a bunch of tweets}
Trump thinks the person who is incriminating him (former lawyer Michael Cohen, who has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress to conceal Trumps business dealings with a hostile foreign power that was trying to sabotage our election on his behalf) is a weasel who should go to prison for as long as possible. By contrast, the person who is staunchly refusing to incriminate him (longtime adviser Roger Stone, who adamantly denies that there has been collusion) is a profile in courage.
Obviously the actual substantive content of Cohens conduct and subsequent admission of wrongdoing is of zero interest to Trump. The president doesnt think Cohen should go to prison because of what he did, but rather because Cohen is trying to evade prison time by spilling the beans about him. If Cohen were refusing to do this, and had never reached any kind of plea deal with the special counsel, Trump would be hailing Cohen for having guts, the way he now is doing on behalf of Stone.
As numerous lawyers have now pointed out including George Conway, who happens to be the husband of someone named Kellyanne Conway Trumps tweet about Stone may constitute witness tampering, because he appears to be trying to induce Stone to withhold testimony against him.
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Greg Sargent writes The Plum Line blog. He joined The Post in 2010, after stints at Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine and the New York Observer. Follow https://twitter.com/theplumlinegs
Trump wants the process to be hopelessly tainted
By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
December 3 at 3:25 PM
President Trump has spent a lifetime pondering the complexities of moral desert, and so he is outraged that the man who operated as his personal fixer for so long may escape justice:
{snip a bunch of tweets}
Trump thinks the person who is incriminating him (former lawyer Michael Cohen, who has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress to conceal Trumps business dealings with a hostile foreign power that was trying to sabotage our election on his behalf) is a weasel who should go to prison for as long as possible. By contrast, the person who is staunchly refusing to incriminate him (longtime adviser Roger Stone, who adamantly denies that there has been collusion) is a profile in courage.
Obviously the actual substantive content of Cohens conduct and subsequent admission of wrongdoing is of zero interest to Trump. The president doesnt think Cohen should go to prison because of what he did, but rather because Cohen is trying to evade prison time by spilling the beans about him. If Cohen were refusing to do this, and had never reached any kind of plea deal with the special counsel, Trump would be hailing Cohen for having guts, the way he now is doing on behalf of Stone.
As numerous lawyers have now pointed out including George Conway, who happens to be the husband of someone named Kellyanne Conway Trumps tweet about Stone may constitute witness tampering, because he appears to be trying to induce Stone to withhold testimony against him.
This is witness tampering under 18 USC 1512(b), which makes it illegal to cause or induce any person to withhold testimony. We explain: https://www.brookings.edu/research/presidential-obstruction-of-justice-the-case-of-donald-j-trump-2nd-edition/
Link to tweet
File under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1503, 1512
Link to tweet
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Greg Sargent writes The Plum Line blog. He joined The Post in 2010, after stints at Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine and the New York Observer. Follow https://twitter.com/theplumlinegs
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Trump wants the process to be hopelessly tainted (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Dec 2018
OP
Good gawd...when will they identify a law scholar by his own, renowned name.
libdem4life
Dec 2018
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libdem4life
(13,877 posts)1. Good gawd...when will they identify a law scholar by his own, renowned name.
That rather than the "husband of" one of the most prolific liars in the WH...Ms. Alternative Facts. What they have or do at home is between them, but JC on a Crutch, Mr. George Conway is a scholar...and a truth-teller. This obsession with You-know-who's husband" is insulting.
Also, seems they have only one photo of him with his eyes going sideways...making him look less than intelligent.
Nitram
(22,788 posts)2. "Trump wants the process to be hopelessly tainted." That has long been one of his go-to strategies.
He was trying to taint the electoral process when he accidentally won the presidency. If he had lost, as expected, he would have made a huge issue of the "rigged system." Instead he focused on bogus accusations of voter fraud to explain away Clintons' huge lead in the popular vote.