That’s impeachable.
August 22, 2018 10:40 am
photo above: Michael Cohen leaves his federal court hearing in New York on August 21, 2018. (Reuters / Brendan McDermid)
WN: Is anyone really surprised?! The answer shouts out from the question((This article gives full details.
And as another article rather definitively puts it:
Whatever legal and political consequences ensue, Trump voters should know that they cast their ballot for a man who has lied to them all along, even about a felony that would help him win the 2016 election. A nickname that pithily distilled his behavior would be “Crooked Donald.” America cannot be great again so long as he corrupts its presidency, poisons its discourse with lies, shows disregard for the authority of its laws, and sets an example of mendacious debasement for its children.
One wonders who will begin the chant: “Lock him up!”
Here is the blow-by-blow of the extended lying by Trump et al. re. his affair with Stormy Daniels: “Trump lied about Stormy Daniels, from the Fact Checker“.
And here to date (August 26, 2018) is indication that Trump’s “wall of secrecy” is going down amongst numerous law suit/criminal investigation probes: “‘He can’t get rid of any of this’: Trump’s wall of secrecy erodes amid growing legal challenges“.
While it’s all very sad, one can only hope and pray that Trump’s even greater wall of impervious narcissism built over a lifetime would begin breaking down, if there is any hope for the salvation of his soul — he who reads the Bible more than anyone — as he has claimed repeatedly (see for instance “Donald Trump: ‘Nobody Reads Bible More Than Me’ “).Trump is Exhibit A (if one accepts his claim — though clearly just another lie — see previous highlighted article) of the danger of reading the Bible with no intention whatsoever (“By their fruits…” (Matthew 7) ) of letting it change one’s behaviour.
It is fair to observe that in fact everything Trump has been about erecting “dividing walls of hostility” more than anyone, in direct inversion of the work of Christ designed to destroy all such barriers (Ephesians 2:14). The Mexican Border Wall policy is utterly consistent with this man who on the world stage arguably most consistently exhibits all the qualities of anti-Christ/anti-Gospel.
I resonate with this depiction of Trump in “Trump, Corporate Media Are Both Enemies of the People“:
Yes, Trump is a malignant racist, sexist, plutocrat and narcissist who is, in the words of former CIA Director John Brennan (more on him below), “drunk on power.” He’s a pathological liar, an arch-authoritarian, a consummate bully, a vicious dullard and a deadly agent of ecocide.
Trump is so narcissistic he couldn’t even mention the passing of the magnificent singer Aretha Franklin without trying to make the story about him by claiming (falsely) to have known her “very well” and that (as if the music legend had been his housekeeper) “she worked for me on numerous occasions.”
The sooner this loathsome and dangerous Bad Grandpa is yanked off the center-stage of history, the better.
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Yet an acquaintance, the vast majority of white Evangelicals, and in general Trump’s alt-right base will blindly (as in there are none so blind as those who will not see) “think” otherwise((A spoof on what they might say: “If Trump shot Michael Cohen in broad daylight, here’s what Republicans would say“.
And here in fact is what Kellyanne Conway (one of the bona fide infamous “deplorables”, in “CNN’s Cuomo clashes with Kellyanne Conway over Cohen hush-money payments“) claims about Trump’s lies, in Chris Cuomo’s words:
“You should admit he’s lying, and you don’t, and that’s why people don’t trust you.” CNN’s @ChrisCuomo clashes with Counselor to the President @KellyannePolls over President Trump’s many lies: https://t.co/PROIlIUb0p pic.twitter.com/3mewhZWDg0 — Cuomo Prime Time (@CuomoPrimeTime) August 24, 2018
And that folks, is prima facie doublespeak! — which when probed more deeply is Trump’s and his “deplorables’ ” norm. )). Think lockstep…
Adam Davidson in The New Yorker writes in “Allen Weisselberg, the Man Who Knows Donald Trump’s Financial Secrets, Has Agreed to Become a Coöperating Witness“:
There are now multiple investigations of the Trump Organization being conducted by the special counsel Robert Mueller, the New York Attorney General, The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, the Manhattan District Attorney, the Southern District of New York, and—quite likely—other jurisdictions. President Trump is unable to stop most of these investigations. With Cohen and, now, Weisselberg providing information, it is becoming increasingly certain that the American people will—sooner or later—have a far fuller understanding of how Donald Trump conducted business. That is unlikely to go well for him.
I don’t say so much “Lock him up!” as “Get him off the world stage sooner than later!“[ref number”3”]Here is an article about the tally of Trump’s lies in his first 700 days as President: a whopping 7,546! Yet I have a relative who in response to such facts asks: But who is checking the fact checker? Impossible will to believe against all odds, otherwise known as completely brainwashed! Hence the joke about the man convinced he was dead who was given books to read by his doctor about the state of dead men. Upon the patient’s acknowledging the next doctor visit that dead men do not bleed, the doctor whips out a giant needle, stabs his arm, and blood splurts out. The patient looks at his arm askance, and declares: “Dead men do bleed after all!”))
excerpts:
Donald Trump assumed the presidency after losing the 2016 popular balloting for the post by almost 2.9 million votes. Trump was able to stake his claim on the office because of narrow victories in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. Most voters in those three states opposed the Republican’s candidacy, but the minority that supported him was marginally greater than the group that supported Democrat Hillary Clinton. This narrow advantage gave Trump an uninspired Electoral College win—and, with it, the keys to the White House.A combined total of fewer than 80,000 votes separated Trump and Clinton in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
So ask yourself this question: Do you think that 80,000 swing-state voters might have decided not to vote for Trump if they had known the details of his coverup of his sexual relationship with a porn star? Do you think that at least 40,000 of those voters might have switched from Trump to Clinton if they had known of Trump began an affair with a Playboy model shortly after his wife, Melania, gave birth to their son—and then bought the model’s silence?
If the answer to either of those questions is “yes,” then the fact that Michael Cohen says Trump engaged in a criminal conspiracy to silence his former paramours raises very big issues for American democracy.
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“Cohen’s sworn allocution in (the Southern District of New York courtroom) in support of his pleas of guilty to having feloniously manipulated the 2016 election at Trump’s direction point directly to impeachable ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ by Trump…” argues Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe, who noted that the wrongdoing in question is “entirely apart from Russiagate and Obstructiongate.”
Tribe explains that: “Trump’s ‘no collusion’ mantra is now ludicrous. Collusion—indeed, conspiracy—with Michael Cohen and others to defraud the American people by criminally manipulating the presidential election is now clear from Cohen’s guilty pleas—even without Russia’s involvement.”
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Members of the House have a duty to open the impeachment inquiry immediately.
If House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, and the congressional cabal that continues to cover for Trump refuses to initiate that inquiry now, then voters should use this year’s midterm election to seat a new Congress that will respect the need for a constitutional intervention that checks and balances this lawless president.
John Nichols Twitter John Nichols is The Nation’s national-affairs correspondent. He is the author of Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in America, from Nation Books, and co-author, with Robert W. McChesney, of People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy.
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