August 21, 2018
By Eric Lach
On Tuesday, Michael Cohen, (click here) Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion and campaign-finance charges in a New York City courtroom, and the most significant moment in the proceedings came when Cohen asserted that he had committed some of his crimes “at the direction of the candidate”—meaning Trump. “The words ‘coördination with’ and ‘at the direction of’ will haunt the Trump Presidency,” The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin told me, soon after the hearing. “Cohen directly implicated Trump as a co-conspirator in a felony.”...
There is no doubt what occurred here. There are tapes. Whether or not they are admissible in court is not the issue, politically those tapes are valid. The country has a right to relief from criminals sitting in the White House.
We heard how Michael Cohen set up a company to receive information about one of Trump's many affairs with women outside his marriage and we heard how creative the funding would be so it could not be tied directly to the candidate's personal or business or campaign funds.
The God Father was never implicated in all the murders he ordered either.
This in no way can be construed as being "The Deep State." There is nothing government about Cohen and the evidence points to crimes. What is there about the prosecutor in this case that is characteristic of a free wheeling conspiracy? There is nothing here to even begin to suspect government overreach.
Trump's base always cries, "It is the Deep State." What is not the Deep State? That is what I want to know. What about any law enforcement is not the Deep State? Anything in relation to the investigations not the Deep State?
Here ya go:
