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applegrove

(118,658 posts)
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 06:53 PM Apr 2018

Adam Schiff Terrifies Trump By Linking The Access Hollywood Tape and Russia Collusion

BY JASON EASLEY at Politicus USA

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/04/11/adam-schiff-just-linked-the-access-hollywood-tape-and-trumps-russia-collusion.html

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Schiff said, My reaction is a couple of things. First I think they’re doing their job and if there is any issue with an execution of a warrant, the president knows you go to court and you don’t fire the prosecutors. That is an on obstruction of justice. But I think there are possibilities that you outlined. This could be about whether or not Michael Cohen was suppressing that tape much like trying to pay hush money for the other people, stormy Daniels among others to keep their stories out of the press during the president’s campaign and whether that was a violation of the campaign finance laws, not to report it. That is one possibility. Also possible that they are looking at whether the trump campaign and Michael Cohen had any role in the timing of the Wikileaks dump of the Russia stolen Podesta e-mails. I tend to think it is more likely — the former because this was referred to the southern district of New York and that indicates it had more to do with the issue of Stormy Daniels and campaign finance law violations than it did on the issue of potential collusion. But it could be a culmination of both.”

Rep. Schiff is right. It could be both. While investigating the timeline of the release of the Access Hollywood tape and the leak of the stolen emails, Mueller’s team could have come across criminal activity related to Michael Cohen’s payoffs and efforts to silence women. It doesn’t necessarily have to be one or the other. It can be both.

Trump worst nightmare would be if all his scandals merged into one big timeline of corruption, and with the return of the Access Hollywood tape Trump’s biggest fears are closer to coming true.

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Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
2. Can you imagine, i mean can you IMAGINE
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 06:57 PM
Apr 2018

one one THOUSANDTH of his scandals and lies, what it would do to Hillary, Barack, any democrat!

NOTHING on Obama, NOTHING, 8 years. NOTHING on Hillary, NOTHING, how many years?

SO MUCH on rump we cant keep track.

This level of hypocrisy gives me heartburn.

yonder

(9,666 posts)
12. tan suit, stella artois, michelle's bare arms and brewing beer in the WH.
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 08:33 PM
Apr 2018

and the right effin flipped out. go figure

yardwork

(61,608 posts)
6. Cohen was the CFO for the RNC. Imagine....
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 07:04 PM
Apr 2018

Remember how Debbie Wasserman-Shultz was ripped apart for, um, preferring Hillary, something something pizza email, something....

Imagine if the CFO of the DNC - responsible for all the money! - had this happen to them.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
8. Michael Cohen was? WTF? I forgot that.
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 07:07 PM
Apr 2018

A democrat who did this would have to buy a spaceship from Space X, fly to Mars, take with him 200 Navy Seals, and would STILL not be safe from deplorables.

HopeAgain

(4,407 posts)
4. Supressing the tape is not illegal
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 07:00 PM
Apr 2018

Unless he offered campaign money or he was involved in threatening something illegal if they did run it. On the other hand, as Schiff said, if it was about Wikileaks, it probably wouldn't have been referred. Maybe there is something else we don't even know about with that tape?

BadGimp

(4,015 posts)
15. My "theory" regarding the Hollywood Access tape
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 10:07 PM
Apr 2018

It was leaked intentionally by Trump's Camp.

It had the effect of wiping the Obama admins announcement of Russian interference and hacking of the election AND the news of the Wikileaks release of the DNC hacked emails, OFF THE MEDIA RADAR.

Net: it was a win for Trump.

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