Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Bookminder, executive director for citizens for responsibilities and ethics. And Midwin Charles is an attorney. President trump reacted to cohens plea this morning on twitter where he writes if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, i would strongly suggest you that dont retain the services of Michael Cohen. Okay. Lets remind our audience, the president is downplaying this. Being funny, almost cute. Theres nothing cute about it. The president of the United States is the chief Law Enforcement officer. That is what he is. And yesterday, he has been accused as a coconspirator of a federal crime, maybe multiple. So, please, let that sit in. Midwin what is your take here . My take is this is consistent with donald trump. We have seen him react this way to a varietydifferent thinks
even when accused of Sexual Assault by women. Now, what is shocking that i think all of us need to recognize on august 21st, 2018, the Trump P
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i want to go to the point raised by congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez. she s talking about asset inflation. has donald trump ever engaged in asset inflation to which she got a very quick yes from michael cohen. it seems to be a matter of asset inflation for insurance purposes which then could lead to insurance fraud and are there other worms in that can? a couple of things. first the insurance fraud is implicated here directly. but that s both federal and state insurance fraud. the key thing is always looking whether it s a state criminal liability. because that deals with which other prosecutors might get involved. new york state prosecutors. and that prevents the pardon problem. but that also implicates state tax fraud. so all of these actors could be implicated. and the bigger picture, there could be indictments of trump organizati organization, additional indictments of trump foundation
to pardon. it may be an abuse of power. it may be obstruction by the president. but he can do it. when you get convicted of federal tax crimes and federal tax fraught that means you committed state tax fraud. when the state prosecutes you for state tax fraud that cannot be pardoned. he s in a world of trouble, fred. the president hasn t necessarily said he s going to do it. he just simply has left the door open, right, you know, avery, by praising manafort and saying, you know, he hasn t done anything that s anything unlike a lot of other people who have done stuff. lobbyists, et cetera. think about this, fredricka. he talked about the trial in northern virginia against manafort as a, quote, hoax. well, my goodness, gracious. you had literally all 18. in fact, it s very possible you
this is a guy who was a proud fixer. we heard him on tape threatening saying he was going to gut him like a fish. i don t believe it s in his self-interest to accept a pardon. why? because if he has exposure for violating state laws, as well as federal laws which he almost certainly does, anytime you commit federal tax fraud, guess what, you ve also committed state tax fraud. and the president, even if he were to issue a pardon can t extinguish all of his criminal liability. so the only game in time is cooperation. yes, this whereas a noncooperation agreement, but what will we haven t heard about is that prosecutor entering into superseding cooperation agreements all the time. this is the first time for michael cohen. we got to turn to the paul manafort trial. was it the first win for the mueller team in the courtroom
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