More Bad News For Individual One...
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 6:56 am
Trumpty has had some pretty awful weeks during his Presidency (My personal pick for Worst Week Ever is the week Robert Mueller was named Special Counsel; I think that is likely to hold up as the Worst Week until the week he's Impeached) but this past week is certainly up there in the Top Five...
His former campaign manager gets convicted on eight felony counts, (with many more potential convictions looming ahead; another trial starts Sept. 17th) his former lawyer and "fixer" starts singing, cops a plea to eight counts of his own and implicates him as a co-conspirator in a criminal conspiracy to illegally influence the 2016 election, and both his long time confidant and keeper of secrets David Pecker and Allen Weisselberg his company CFO and the guy who has for decades had all the info on his finances cut immunity deals...
I think that last bit about Weisselberg may ultimately prove to be the awfullest of all the awful things that happened to Il Boobce this week. (In truth though he actually started singing several weeks ago to give evidence against Cohen; which may explain Trump's ramp-up of the smears and vitriol against investigators over the same period. Strangely, Weisselberg is still employed by Trump. )
That should certainly be enough terribleness for anybody's hebdomas horribilis but there's also this:
ETA:
Oh lookie...
Individual One gets another Time Magazine cover to brag about:
His former campaign manager gets convicted on eight felony counts, (with many more potential convictions looming ahead; another trial starts Sept. 17th) his former lawyer and "fixer" starts singing, cops a plea to eight counts of his own and implicates him as a co-conspirator in a criminal conspiracy to illegally influence the 2016 election, and both his long time confidant and keeper of secrets David Pecker and Allen Weisselberg his company CFO and the guy who has for decades had all the info on his finances cut immunity deals...
I think that last bit about Weisselberg may ultimately prove to be the awfullest of all the awful things that happened to Il Boobce this week. (In truth though he actually started singing several weeks ago to give evidence against Cohen; which may explain Trump's ramp-up of the smears and vitriol against investigators over the same period. Strangely, Weisselberg is still employed by Trump. )
That should certainly be enough terribleness for anybody's hebdomas horribilis but there's also this:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/manhattan- ... anization/Manhattan DA considers criminal charges against Trump Organization
The Manhattan district attorney's office has opened an investigation and is considering pursuing criminal charges against the Trump Organization, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News.
Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr.'s investigation comes in light of statements made by President Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, during his guilty plea proceeding in federal court this week.
In its preliminary stages, investigators are looking into whether the Trump Organization falsified business records of reimbursements payments to Cohen.[That's the starting point, but you know how these things can go once they get started...]No determination has made made at this time about whether criminal charges are merited.
The DA's consideration of pursuing charges against the Trump Organization was first reported by the New York Times.
The Trump Organization has no comment.
President Trump has sought advice from his lawyers about using his pardon power for his recently convicted campaign chairman Paul Manafort and others, the Washington Post reported. Fox News' Ainsley Earhardt, who interviewed Mr. Trump this week, said that he mentioned pardoning Manafort to her.
But in this case, should the state of New York pursue charges and secure any convictions involving the Trump Organization or its employees, President Trump would not be able to pardon them. He is able to pardon those convicted of federal offenses, and not state offenses.
ETA:
Oh lookie...
Individual One gets another Time Magazine cover to brag about:
