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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Apr 2018

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Apr 2018

      2. It's true that legally speaking Trump is, to use the language of Blackstone, in deep shit. He's long dealt with dirty money & now the Feds have access to the files of his fixer.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Apr 2018

      3. But legal reality and political reality are two different things. Trump's family & cronies might go down but he has a political path going forward.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Apr 2018

      4. The best move for Trump is in fact what he's doing: binding himself to the party, keeping the base happy, making it costly for GOP to abandon him. This will insure that even if impeached, he'll not be removed.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Apr 2018

      5. Trump could pardon any crony or family member who gets charged. And even post-presidency, Trump can use GOP party loyalty as a shield to protect himself from legal consequences.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Apr 2018

      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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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Apr 2018

          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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Apr 2018

          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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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Apr 2018

          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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        1. Andrew Young‏ @SpartanVTyranny 14 Apr 2018
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          CIA torture is what always comes to mind on this one.

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        1. NancyWilliamsPainter‏ @painter_nancy 14 Apr 2018
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          The State of New York will prosecute him and the State AG would only benefit politically from it

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        1. anne cunningham‏ @queencityac 14 Apr 2018
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          The average American was not subject to torture, so the horror was strong but not *personal*. I honestly feel that having Trump as president has taken a year off my life. No joke. I imagine I am not alone in this. Things that happen to dictators after they fall is more like it.

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        1. Rhonda DuBose #RECLAIMAMERICA #VOTE2022‏ @RhoniDu 14 Apr 2018
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          The national healing can be articulated in the Need for all the harm & terror trump has put Americans thru must be addressed. Healing doesn't come from ignoring a prob. Healing comes from tackling the cause. He will only continue his treasonous ways if he's Not held accountable.

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