Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon

[Deleted member 28206]

I'm staying up late to watch this. Love this show.

 

[abelard]

Even with a Republican controlled Congress, its hard to see how there could not be some move for impeachment now. Cohen just said he committed offences at the direction of the President, and everyone (including Trump) admits that money changed hands.

not unless the polls change

 

[tsubaki]

Fox tv discussions tonight on Hillary’s emails will be wild.

My favourite moment of the 2012 election was, right after Fox called the election for Obama (and about five minutes after Karl Rove claimed it was still on only to be told by Fox News' own political analysis drones that he was talking out of his arse) they reacted to the news by showing a recorded clip of Shepard Smith talking to Chris Wallace about how much he liked to eat chicken.

 

[peteblue]

I'd say Manafort was waiting to see what would happen before deciding on whether to cooperate with Mueller.
He was relying a lot on hoping that Gates would take the fall, this hasn't happened.
He has another trial coming up at state level, if found guilty in that, which is likely now, he can't be saved by a presidential pardon.
Manafort and Cohen guilty on the same day also greatly increases the likelyhood of impeachment if the dems win the house in november.
It also doesnt do campaigning republicans any favors as most have been campaigning on pro trump tickets.

Ah, any chance of waiting until after we’ve left the EU, asking for a friend........

 

[tsubaki]

not unless the polls change

Even if the GOP maintains control of Congress, this is not the sort of thing that could just be ignored. It is blatant, as is his guilt.

 

[abelard]

Even if the GOP maintains control of Congress, this is not the sort of thing that could just be ignored.

just watch them...

if their constituents aren't arsed, what do they have to gain?

there is nothing legally mandated about impeachment - it is entirely political

the GOP will only move against Trump after their voters do first

 

[tsubaki]

just watch them...

if their constituents aren't arsed, what do they have to gain?

there is nothing legally mandated about impeachment - it is entirely political

the GOP will only move against Trump after their voters do first

It is political, but don't forget this is exactly the reason why Pence was put on that ticket - to protect the party.

You have on the one hand Trump - who was (and is) no friend of any of the Congressional GOP - and on the other hand you have their careers. If they leave Trump alone, after his lawyer has said he committed federal crimes and its blatant that he did it, then they will have to ignore whatever Mueller finds out as well (and whatever else Trump does from this point on). This is their get-out of that situation.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Didn’t respond to any questions re Cohen

 

[DanEFC92]

Interesting times @mezzrow

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Imagine paying a brass off via your lawyer whilst running for president. Haha.

 

[abelard]

It is political, but don't forget this is exactly the reason why Pence was put on that ticket - to protect the party.

You have on the one hand Trump - who was (and is) no friend of any of the Congressional GOP - and on the other hand you have their careers. If they leave Trump alone, after his lawyer has said he committed federal crimes and its blatant that he did it, then they will have to ignore whatever Mueller finds out as well (and whatever else Trump does from this point on). This is their get-out of that situation.

Maybe. But I doubt anything will happen before the election, at the earliest. That, for the GOP, is the more immediate threat.

Trump is historically popular among his own party

(and the fact that Bush Jr. was higher still - after systematically ignoring the entire intelligence community's warnings about Al-Qaeda, then using the ensuing disaster to shred the constitution, declare permanent war against a noun, and provoke the most costly and counter-productive foreign policy error since Vietnam against an unrelated third country - should be instructive)

Trump's preferred candidates have been sweeping the GOP primaries. The GOP can't even stop literal Confederates from winning high-income high-education states like Virginia.

His supporters (including even those on here, who should really know better) will be perfectly happy to chalk up today's verdicts as the further machinations of the Deep State.

Abandoning the Dear Leader at his time of need would be unforgivable, the absolute worst kind of treason. Never mind the threat to their careers - somebody would probably try to murder them.

I wouldn't expect anything to happen before November unless the polls appear to change, and I can't see what's happened today that would prompt that.

 

[Moomin]

 

[Moomin]

Lock her up, drain the swamp.

Not quite working out like that.

 

[mmmmsnouts]

This will be hilarious until President Mike Pence is sworn in.

Uh yeah, he was on the ticket that the law was broken in order to elect. Also Manafort sort of hand-picked him as running mate. He’s screwed. The only difference between him and all these other criminals is he at least knows not to run his mouth.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

1. It wasn't illegal.
2. It wasn't "top secret"