Trump Thread

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Won't Trump just pardon Manafort (and Cohen) and won't that take away all the "pressure to cooperate with Robert Müller"?

Legally possible, but given current public information that would REALLY look like using the pardon to obstruct justice (because, however 'legal,' that's what it would be). That COULD get him impeached. Impeachment does not require that Trump will have committed a crime, only that he have been involved in some "misdemeanor" that clearly represents an abuse of power. Nixon was never indicted for anything.


It will be interesting to see just how direct the 'at the direction" link between Cohen's campaign illegalities and POTUS are. Obviously, there is now a publicly visible reason for further inquiry.