Donald Trump has no legal recourse against Michael Cohen. If one is recording a conversation to recall exactly the instructions requested by a client, that is benign intent of such information. Mr. Cohen did not get anyone else involved in the conversation. Mr. Cohen could have had his secretary pick up a phone to witness the instructions, but he didn’t.
The recordings were marked attorney-client privilege by the Master in the case. It was leaked by someone. I sincerely doubt the one piece of evidence the Southern District of New York could not have to make their case against Trump and/or Michael Cohen would not have been leaked by Michael Cohen.
So, there is an unknown source that leaked the recording. If true to form it was probably the Russians. Not all of them understand English very well.
It is really unfortunate the United States of America has a President with such a lurid past. It is a character issue, that Fox News wants the country to buy into as a charismatic mobster.
I sincerely like the women involved, but, they feel victim to a man that cared nothing about them and brought his money and power to bear to attempt to shut them up. As it turns out, their stories are all true.
It is a vital lesson for the country. Full disclosure is necessary during an election for the country’s national security. No judicial nominee is worth the betrayal of our allies or the surrender to communists.
The US Senate majority leader should be ashamed of a President with such overwhelming proof to his illicit life and untrustworthy character. It is appalling to see Mitch McConnell bask in the hubris of a judicial nominee by an unsophisticated and inexorable President, while he witnesses other actions that alienates allies and elevates enemies. All actions by President Trump should be rejected be they domestic or foreign.
The people of the United States of America need strength by their legislators and not indulge ideology that Trump uses to maintain his image of an effective president. It is wrong to be partisan in such dangerous times.
Donald Trump intends to bring a communist leader with US Sanctions to US soil with every possibility of an expensive military parade to amuse him. This while NATO member Ukraine fights for their freedom from Putin’s Russia. This after it is known Russia shot down a commercial airliner with all dead. The Senate Majority Leader needs to rethink accepting any and all actions by Trump rather than picking and choosing which make him smile.
Saturday, July 21, 2018
Flint
There is a report published on CNN as of Friday, June 20, 2018 staying federal, state and local authority are responsible for the FIint Water Crisis.
Yes and no.
The report says there were warnings issued by the US EPA regarding unsafe water under the lead and copper rule and under SWDA (Safe Water Drinking Act) to the state stipulating the water quality STANDARD of the Michigan DEQ (Dept. of Environmental Quality) was inadequate in 10 different ways. These warnings occurred in 2010.
This violation was in regard to the statewide requirements. There was no law requiring compliance with the state standards whether they were correct or incorrect. This was built in corruption in not only the state law but also the federal law because the US EPA did not require notifications to the agency regarding a switch in water source. That corruption may still exist today
But, while those warnings are interesting that was 2010 and the Flint water crisis didn’t occur until 2014. The overall oversight by the federal EPA should occur more frequently especially is an entire state water department set of STANDARDS that was/is out of compliance. I will bet real money the US EPA doesn’t have a law or policy or standard that states when a state STANDARD(s) are out of compliance the US EPA must provide inspection every year and begin to write citations with monetary fines to begin the third year if compliance is not demonstrated as changing the standards,
These are ethical and not legal issues. The US EPA did its job and it has a big job covering 50 states. That is probably why the federal report was late in being issued. That tardiness would hold up in court if shortages of personnel were known and documented. The entire issue in Michigan according to the report is that while unsafe standards existed, there was no law demanding compliance.
The people of Flint in 2014 was faced with a highly unethical reality and for an entire year of poisoning Snyder let his backbone slip on enforcing standards the residents were complaining about. Don’t get me wrong the standards are not meaningless. There is s difference between meaningless and gross negligence,
The US EPA obviously had a right and responsiblity to carry out their assessments and provide warnings to Michigan to bring their standards into compliance. The way all this works is citing the
State and with lack of compliance and being an obvious menace to the people lawsuits can be filed due to negligence, gross negligence, etc.
Regulations from the fed are not about structured fines and jail time as a citation by a police officer can be; it is focused on compliance. Basically, the federal government does not want to cause States and local governments fiscal hardship, they want compliance. It is an ethical issue for those cited to comply. Now, if a governor sees this as a weakness and/or a loop hole with the lawn then the people of the state have a problem. It is why citizen watchdogs are important. Such knowledge by the people can cause pressure on the system to force compliance. Without such activitists the people are at risk and the situation has to escalate in order to bring lawsuits.
Basically, buy and read newspapers. Stay involved and/or be a member of a group whom are watchdogs such as NDRC or Sierra Cub or some other similar organization that does the work.
So, fast forward to 2014. Governor Snyder already had been told about the lack of State standard violation. He, through his emergency manager determined that Flint had a fiscal problem that required it to go to another source of drinking water and they simply switched the source. Never tested it before or after, never had townhall meetings because Snyder knew there would be an uproar about the quality of the Flint River, he changed the state offices drinking water to bottled water and then poisoned the people.
Take heart, Snyder is in major violation of water quality issues BUT also a law connected to lead sources. The lead law REQUIRES any and everyone to teach the people about actual and potential lead poisoning within their home environment. That maliciously never happened and that is how the people, including children, were poisoned.
The lead law requiring information being provided carries heavy penalties for those that don’t
comply. This is usually thought as a landlord compliance, but, it does not end with just landlords. In the case of Flint, the landlords weren’t even notified about lead in the water so they could educate their tenants as required by federal law.
Just to realize how ridiculous governors can be in no compliance of federal home safety standards, the State of Ohio has a standard for home environments regarding rado that state landlords can get free kits from the state. Nice, right? Free Radon Kits to landlords.
In, I believe New York State, it sticks to the effectiveness of preventing lung cancer from radon by providing free radon test kits and processing to TENANTS. Ohio, on the other hand, hopes it’s law is appreciated by landlords as it does not provide free radon testing kits to tenants. The tenants have to buy their own kits and have them processed. It can be cost prohibitive for some tenants IF THEY EVEN know they should test,
In the case of Ohio someone would have to come down with lung cancer caused by radon and then sue the landlord for gross negligence and here again if the tenant was told radon was the culprit. See the difference? In Ohio allows danger to exist while in New York State the people are empowered to take care of themselves and prevent disease.
So. There is a lot to this mess of regulations and litigation, but, somewhere in the adult universe of activism the information can be tapped with enormous consequences for those that violated THE PUBLIC TRUST.
Yes and no.
The report says there were warnings issued by the US EPA regarding unsafe water under the lead and copper rule and under SWDA (Safe Water Drinking Act) to the state stipulating the water quality STANDARD of the Michigan DEQ (Dept. of Environmental Quality) was inadequate in 10 different ways. These warnings occurred in 2010.
This violation was in regard to the statewide requirements. There was no law requiring compliance with the state standards whether they were correct or incorrect. This was built in corruption in not only the state law but also the federal law because the US EPA did not require notifications to the agency regarding a switch in water source. That corruption may still exist today
But, while those warnings are interesting that was 2010 and the Flint water crisis didn’t occur until 2014. The overall oversight by the federal EPA should occur more frequently especially is an entire state water department set of STANDARDS that was/is out of compliance. I will bet real money the US EPA doesn’t have a law or policy or standard that states when a state STANDARD(s) are out of compliance the US EPA must provide inspection every year and begin to write citations with monetary fines to begin the third year if compliance is not demonstrated as changing the standards,
These are ethical and not legal issues. The US EPA did its job and it has a big job covering 50 states. That is probably why the federal report was late in being issued. That tardiness would hold up in court if shortages of personnel were known and documented. The entire issue in Michigan according to the report is that while unsafe standards existed, there was no law demanding compliance.
The people of Flint in 2014 was faced with a highly unethical reality and for an entire year of poisoning Snyder let his backbone slip on enforcing standards the residents were complaining about. Don’t get me wrong the standards are not meaningless. There is s difference between meaningless and gross negligence,
The US EPA obviously had a right and responsiblity to carry out their assessments and provide warnings to Michigan to bring their standards into compliance. The way all this works is citing the
State and with lack of compliance and being an obvious menace to the people lawsuits can be filed due to negligence, gross negligence, etc.
Regulations from the fed are not about structured fines and jail time as a citation by a police officer can be; it is focused on compliance. Basically, the federal government does not want to cause States and local governments fiscal hardship, they want compliance. It is an ethical issue for those cited to comply. Now, if a governor sees this as a weakness and/or a loop hole with the lawn then the people of the state have a problem. It is why citizen watchdogs are important. Such knowledge by the people can cause pressure on the system to force compliance. Without such activitists the people are at risk and the situation has to escalate in order to bring lawsuits.
Basically, buy and read newspapers. Stay involved and/or be a member of a group whom are watchdogs such as NDRC or Sierra Cub or some other similar organization that does the work.
So, fast forward to 2014. Governor Snyder already had been told about the lack of State standard violation. He, through his emergency manager determined that Flint had a fiscal problem that required it to go to another source of drinking water and they simply switched the source. Never tested it before or after, never had townhall meetings because Snyder knew there would be an uproar about the quality of the Flint River, he changed the state offices drinking water to bottled water and then poisoned the people.
Take heart, Snyder is in major violation of water quality issues BUT also a law connected to lead sources. The lead law REQUIRES any and everyone to teach the people about actual and potential lead poisoning within their home environment. That maliciously never happened and that is how the people, including children, were poisoned.
The lead law requiring information being provided carries heavy penalties for those that don’t
comply. This is usually thought as a landlord compliance, but, it does not end with just landlords. In the case of Flint, the landlords weren’t even notified about lead in the water so they could educate their tenants as required by federal law.
Just to realize how ridiculous governors can be in no compliance of federal home safety standards, the State of Ohio has a standard for home environments regarding rado that state landlords can get free kits from the state. Nice, right? Free Radon Kits to landlords.
In, I believe New York State, it sticks to the effectiveness of preventing lung cancer from radon by providing free radon test kits and processing to TENANTS. Ohio, on the other hand, hopes it’s law is appreciated by landlords as it does not provide free radon testing kits to tenants. The tenants have to buy their own kits and have them processed. It can be cost prohibitive for some tenants IF THEY EVEN know they should test,
In the case of Ohio someone would have to come down with lung cancer caused by radon and then sue the landlord for gross negligence and here again if the tenant was told radon was the culprit. See the difference? In Ohio allows danger to exist while in New York State the people are empowered to take care of themselves and prevent disease.
So. There is a lot to this mess of regulations and litigation, but, somewhere in the adult universe of activism the information can be tapped with enormous consequences for those that violated THE PUBLIC TRUST.
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