Crimes aren't crimes: Trump and his allies are moving the goalposts to legally protect him

“You can make anything a crime under the current laws.”

RYAN KORONOWSKI
DEC 11, 2018, 8:00 AM

During an interview with David Frost in 1977, Richard Nixon explained what he believed a president was allowed to do in order to protect “national security,” saying that “when the president [breaks the law]…it is not illegal.”

This is not perhaps the ideal defense strategy for President Trump, nor his crew of loyalists on Capitol Hill — but it appears they’re trying it anyway.

The most recent court filings from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office and the Southern District of New York reveal Trump directed former lawyer Michael Cohen to make hush money payments to two women who claimed to have had affairs with the president, ahead of the 2016 election — allegations that might have prevented Trump from being elected president if they went public. Trump was also pursuing a business deal in Moscow shortly before clinching the GOP nomination, about which Cohen lied to Congress.

Directing one’s lawyer to commit multiple felonies to win an election is itself a felony. Trump and his allies, however, are now claiming that while Trump may have taken part in such acts, none of them should be considered crimes.

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-republicans-mueller-crimes-arent-crimes-cohen-guilty-05ceec449670/


Hey, traitorous asshole some of us saw this being played out in the 1972-1974.....................this time there will be no pardon for a traitor and his allies, that have been enabling your crimes---------------------your a fucking liar................your attorney basically said so..........................you committed two felonies for now..............................you have been implicated in a cover-up in campaign finance laws....................and this coming January, 4, 2019 , I know someone(s) that will get your tax returns............Rep. Elijah Cummings D-MD...........and Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass..................

We already know that your "gang" didn't pay over 400 million state taxes in New York alone.................

The goal posts will not be moved..........................we are coming in 24 days ..................