1. This @adamdavidson piece is getting widely linked to, rightly so, but I have a political proviso: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/michael-cohen-and-the-end-stage-of-the-trump-presidency …
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6. If the GOP still loves Trump, that's going to make it difficult to prosecute him after he leaves office. It'll be a political issue & Dems (as with CIA torture) will fall for rhetoric about need for national healing, moving on, etc.
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7. This is the larger reality. American elites rarely if ever pay for their crimes. And Trump, despite his faux-populism, is as elite as they come: a president.
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8. Consider the massive blunders & crimes that have gone unpunished or not nearly punished enough: Vietnam, Watergate (Nixon pardon), Iran/Contra (many pardons), Iraq war, torture, 2008 meltdown. When do elites pay for their crimes?
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9. The GOP might suffer politically, a few underlings might do jailtime before pardons, but we have to prepare for the possibility that Trump will never face a real reckoning. That's the American way.
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I also wonder what would happen if Trump resigns or is impeached. Surely a President Pence would pardon nearly everyone from Trump on down for the sake of "moving on."
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Not state charges
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NOT IN NY he can't. It's time for His Trashy life and dirt to catch up with him. His arrogance & flouting the law has to at some point consume him.
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