Individual One has very big hands
by digby
You’ve undoubtedly heard that Michael Cohen pleaded guilty today to tax fraud, bank fraud and campaign finance violations and he said that he did the latter on the order of the President of the United States. Well, they don’t name Trump, they just say that Cohen did it on behalf of “Individual One”s campaign. The consensus is that the only reason Trump hasn’t been indicted as a co-conspirator is because he is the president and the DOJ says you can’t indict a sitting president.
This brings home something very, very disturbing. The idea behind that ruling is that the US Congress would ensure that a known criminal or foreign agent could not be allowed to stay in the White House if such evidence were to become known. It assumed they would do their duty and impeach the president and then he would be subject to the justice System like every other American. I think we know that Republicans in congress will not convict him in a impeachment trial even if he shoots someone on Fifth Avenue. He knows that too.
I think we need to contemplate what that really means.
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