There is no serious criminal case against Trump for a campaign finance violation relating to the Daniels payoff. It would, at most, be a technical violation that no sane prosecutor would base criminal charges on (assuming that such charges could be brought against the president).
Although I have zero sympathy for Trump, I am puzzled by the CNN and MSNBC pundits’ apparent unanimity that Giuliani’s statement that Trump reimbursed Cohen was an admission that Trump lied, when he previously said he had not known of the Daniels payoff. There is no necessary contradiction here.
Trump’s story now is that he knew nothing about the payoff when it occurred, but since it was made on his behalf by his lawyer, he felt obliged to reimburse Cohen for the payment. If in fact Trump reimbursed Cohen, that could only have been hidden for a short time before becoming undeniable. I don’t believe that Giuliani did Trump any serious harm in revealing the reimbursement.
Here's some small good news. I fell down a rabbit hole of his NBC playlist and ended up with a video about a Charlottesville Neo-Nazi and how his mother turned from "Laughs at racist jokes" to "Hosting Neo-Nazi training and denying the Holocaust"
Can't let that go without following up, and thankfully, ****heel got got in court two days ago. Hopefully he gets a decent sentence later this year.
cnn hosted an editorial that said we arent mad at pruitt for his spending, we dont really care about any of that stuff. we just want to try and get him because he's so effective at his job and we love business killing regulations.
Any hot takes as to whether the Dems should bring up impeachment?
Spoiler:
I think it would be both a political mistake and an ethical mistake.
Political because I think it would be a net negative electorally, incentivizing Trumps base to vote more than Dems. I believe this happened for Bill Clinton.
Ethical mistake because I think it would be extremely divisive for country. Absent more information, changes need to arise from the voting booth.
This all changes if there emerges more justifiable reasons for impeachment (e.g. proven collusion, etc.).
The Democrats should definitely not bring up impeachment. Firstly because they don't have the votes, not even close. And as you say it would hurt them in the polls. They could only impeach with significant support from Republicans (lol). But even if there were a chance at successfully impeaching Trump, you should remember, Mike Pence. He's got just as many horrible policy ideas but he's quietly boring and non-offensive. He would be a much more formidable foe in 2020, and would have a much better chance to get stuff done in the interim, since he would probably be less historically unpopular compared to Trump.
So what would the Democrats gain from impeachment? Absolutely nothing as far as I can tell. So I'm guessing the Democrats move forward with impeachment proceedings sooner rather than later.
cnn hosted an editorial that said we arent mad at pruitt for his spending, we dont really care about any of that stuff. we just want to try and get him because he's so effective at his job and we love business killing regulations.
I saw this bull****. **** Scott Pruitt hard. He's effectively ****ty at his job, the mother****er bases EPA policy on the bible, flits around the world in luxury on bull**** junkets. It's entirely possible to be heated about every terrible aspect of this ghoul. I'm not hearing enough from prominent SCIENCE folk about how ridiculous this administration's attitude is towards stuff like, well, science.
Cliffs: AT&T was facing an anti-trust suit from Trump's justice dept. and decided that was the best time to pay Cohen $200k for "insights" regarding the Trump Administration...
So former osu wr Anthony gonzalez, who played alongside ted ginn and was a first round pick but still couldn't produce Peyton Manning is a "rising star" deplorable and won his primary for a house seat. He's gonna crush in Ohio.