Everywhere I read stuff, it's a cluster fuck of editorialed garbage. So far there are a hand full of things I got that were relevant:
- Manafort says he was ordered to (use campaign funds?) pay pornstars that Trump paid to sleep with.
^ The sleeping with porn stars stuff is most likely true. Trump doesn't pay for sleeping with the pornstars he pays them for NDAs. This has been "known" and rumored forever, the biggest one being Ana Nicole Smith in her prime. As far as I know the loophole of paying for the NDA makes it legal.
- Manafort committed banking fraud (as far as I know this was with the Podesta group)
- Manafort failed to register as a foreign agent (again, Podesta related as far as I remember)
- Lying to the FBI
- Tax fraud
Not much involving Russia, mismanaging campaign funds under direct order would be an issue for Trump. Impeachment does not have to be large action, and if he fucked up it could be impeachable but as we learned with Clinton being impeached doesn't mean out of office.
I have no clue what's going on with Cohen, and more shocked the attorney client privilege info was used to secure a conviction and was pleading guilt to campaign finance fraud involving paying off pornstars.
What am I missing or mixed up on? What does this mean big picture for Trump?
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[–] MrWicked 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago (edited ago)
Cohen paid the strippers not manafort
[–] nobslob 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
In very broad terms: there are so many laws and regulations that we are all guilty of a few. If you become targeted by the federal government they can easily convict you on something.
All of the people you see on tv, especially the connected elitists, are evading taxes left and right. Other rules don't apply to them too. If they piss off the wrong person, the hammer gets dropped on them.
Trump is trying to fight from within a corrupt to the core system, I'm surprised he's lasted this long actually. That's the only hope we have of the swamp ever being drained. I'm not holding my breath, but it's nice to have a glimmer of hope, hasn't happened in my lifetime until Trump.
[–] watts2db 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I think there is a book called Five Felonies Before Breakfast
[–] green_man 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Cohen didn't really say anything of the sort, he allegedly signed a plea deal that included something about campaign finance violations in it. The thing to remember is people sign plea deals all the time "admitting" to shit they didn't do because the alternative outcome is perceived as worse. The prosecutor could also be looking for something specific for whatever personal reason, they could want their murder conviction rate at 100% for example, so they drop other charges and offer a lighter sentence across the board to get the outcome they're seeking.
[–] CrustyBeaver52 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Mueller is spending a lot of the public's money - a lot - and he'd better arrest somebody - anybody at this point will do.
[–] green_man 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
To add to that, if you investigate anyone long enough you're probably going to find some violation of the law due to the sheer number of laws on the books. This is especially true with tax law, and it seems to be written this way on purpose. The fact Muller hasn't found anything on Trump yet that he wants to go after him for is rather amazing. If all of the energy and resources that have been spent investigating Trump were instead spent on investigating the federal government, you'd see hundreds of trials and convictions instead of two.
[–] watts2db ago
Im starting to suspect Mueller is actually a Trump pawn perhaps unwittingly perhaps not
[–] CowWithBeef 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
He should investigate his own involvement with Russia and then rat out the swamp as part of his own plea deal.