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Here we go, from Russia with love, to campaign finance with love.

Why was Michael Cohen investigated? Because the “Steele dossier” had him making secret trips to meet with Russians that never happened, so his business dealings got a thorough scrubbing and, in the process, he fell into the Paul Manafort bin reserved by the special counsel for squeezing until the juice comes out. We are back to 1998 all over again, with presidents and candidates covering up their alleged marital misdeeds and prosecutors trying to turn legal acts into illegal ones by inventing new crimes.

The plot to get President Trump out of office thickens, as Cohen obviously was his own mini crime syndicate and decided that his betrayals meant he would be better served turning on his old boss to cut the best deal with prosecutors he could rather than holding out and getting the full Manafort treatment. That was clear the minute he hired attorney Lanny Davis, who does not try cases and did past work for Hillary Clinton. Cohen had recorded his client, trying to entrap him, sold information about Trump to corporations for millions of dollars while acting as his lawyer, and did not pay taxes on millions. ...

That is why so many of his aides, lawyers, and actions in the campaign and in the White House have undergone hour by hour scrutiny to find anything that could be colored into a crime, leaving far behind the original Russia collusion theory as the fake pretext it was.

RafiMaas says

Opinions are like assholes, everyone has got one.

This is a witchhunt, pure and simple. The American people see this, and will continue to #walkaway as long as this mockery of the justice system continues.

Go after the actual criminals, perhaps Manafort and certainly Cohen qualify...but using them as open doors to setup trump at will is a "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime" type tyranny. All this while ignoring actual crimes from their establishment team. Its gross man. This is a sad, sad time for our US institutions.

I hope Trump pardons all of them, then fires Mueller and every holdover from Obama, then revokes all security clearances for anyone not still in government. It's time to drop the hammer.

A little slow to the draw...

https://patrick.net/post/1318398/2018-08-22-cohen-s-plea-deal-is-prosecutor-s-attempt-to-set-up-trump

Oh I didn't notice it was same article. My bad