August 22, 2018
By Willis Krumholz (click here)
As opposed to QUALITY journalism.
The United States of America UNDER the propagandists in FOX News and Talk Radio is a joke and their leadership, including Trump, is nothing more than clowns!
These propagandists are guilty of violating the public trust. End of discussion.
August 22, 2018
By Bret Stephens
...And, like it or not, (click here) Trump remains popular with tens of millions of Americans. To overturn the results of an election for anything less than unambiguous evidence of criminal behavior is a danger to democracy itself.
At least that was my view until this week. Michael Cohen’s guilty plea changes this. The Constitution’s standard for impeachment is “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” The standard is now met.
Trump’s longtime fixer acknowledged in court on Tuesday that he violated campaign finance laws by paying hush money to two women “in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office.” That means Trump. That means that, as a candidate, Trump is credibly alleged to have purposefully conspired with Cohen to commit criminal acts. That means the duo did so “for purposes of influencing [an] election for Federal office,” which is the legal definition of a campaign contribution....