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https://politicalwire.com/2018/12/11/trump-allies-starting-to-worry-about-investigations/
Trump Allies Starting to Worry About Investigations
December 11, 2018 at 7:16 am EST By Taegan Goddard
President Trumps intensifying legal troubles are unnerving some of his fellow Republicans. Despite his brash stance, they believe the turmoil has left him increasingly vulnerable as he gears up for what is sure to be a nasty fight for re-election, the AP reports.
Trump, ever confident of his ability to bend story lines to his will, mocks the investigations into his conduct as candidate and president as a witch hunt and insists he will survive the threats.
But a shift began to unfold over the weekend after prosecutors in New York for the first time linked Trump to a federal crime of illegal hush payments. That left some of his associates fearful that his customary bravado is unwarranted. For some Republicans, the implication that the president may have directed a campaign finance violation, which would be a felony, could foreshadow a true turning point in the Republican relationship with him when special counsel Robert Mueller releases his report on the Russia investigation.
Mike Allen: Last weeks stunning court filings detonated what one official calls a reality tremor that has White House officials and key allies increasingly aware of President Trumps rising legal and political vulnerability.
Trump, ever confident of his ability to bend story lines to his will, mocks the investigations into his conduct as candidate and president as a witch hunt and insists he will survive the threats.
But a shift began to unfold over the weekend after prosecutors in New York for the first time linked Trump to a federal crime of illegal hush payments. That left some of his associates fearful that his customary bravado is unwarranted. For some Republicans, the implication that the president may have directed a campaign finance violation, which would be a felony, could foreshadow a true turning point in the Republican relationship with him when special counsel Robert Mueller releases his report on the Russia investigation.
Mike Allen: Last weeks stunning court filings detonated what one official calls a reality tremor that has White House officials and key allies increasingly aware of President Trumps rising legal and political vulnerability.
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Trump Allies Starting to Worry About Investigations (Original Post)
babylonsister
Dec 2018
OP
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)1. More than a few have profited from the Russian conspiracy
They've got to be worried.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)3. Conspiracy law can possibly do great things.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)4. And rightwing billionaires enabled it through Cit U and dark money
empedocles
(15,751 posts)2. The various, shifting maneuvers, - wil be interesting to try and track.