Rachel Maddow has a way to bring all the things together and explain them in a manner we can all understand. Don Jr., Eric, and Ivanka Trump are in deep shit for their involvement in the Trump Organization and Foundation. Nor can they be that smart as to avoid detection for hidden crimes. For it will be exposed sooner or later that all this family does is illegal and should be shut down.

To see the Trumps poor and down on their luck will bring joy to millions. All their properties and goods confiscated to pay back the Treasury the BILLIONS they stole over the years, and sent to prison for the rest of their wretched lives. The years of criminality and dirty deeds will not come cheap. There will be a greater penalty for them to pay....their Freedom!

Look, I'd like to see Trump indicted / impeached as much as anyone else here.

But I've said it before, and I'll say it again. What will affect him most would be for a massive takedown of the "Trump Organization" that not only came after him directly, but also implicated his demon spawn.

And yes, we can have both, if the investigations produce the necessary evidence.

The presidency will always be a "goof" to him, an ego-stroking roll of the dice that came up in his favor. His ego would take a hit if he were impeached or forced to take a deal that ended in his resignation.

Eradicating the brand and locking up the Children of the Corn would be the scenario that would he could not deal with, on any level.

I concur with your assessment here. The elder Trump children's involvement with this has implicated them in high crimes. There is no way they can use the "Sergeant Schultz defense of ....I KNOW NOTHING!"

to common folk here in the US however im sure foreign countries will allow him to benefit.

After listening to Cohen's statement to the Judge several times, my guess about his limited cooperation with SDNY is about the threats on him and his family. There are probably some from Trumps base and there very well may be some from his former "friends and comtacts" in NYC.

I remember the video of Cohen's visit at a New York sidewalk coffee shop. There were three men talking to him and he did not look happy to see them. Another guess is that Cohen insisted on meeting with them in a public place so that there would be witnesses if anything happened to him. I think that Cohen was reminded of their mutual friends who could make people disappear.

Just guessing.