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Trojan horse strategy like this, certainly at a visible place, but the reason we are able to get at these guys ask because they are not that good at it. they are terrible liars. they talk public all the time. they have strategies that kids on the street wouldn t have. and luckily because of it, the republican may be saved. not to make light of t but you only have to get through the first through episodes of season one of the wire to know not to send text messages. there is another piece not only for lies but for doing the opposite of what he has claimed that he was cooperating. in the new filing we have, prosecutors say he wasn t cooperating enough and thus they ....
Filing. if you read the three pages of the filing and add them up, it is a damning document and i can assure you no one i know would want to be cleared in this way. i got to tell control room, someone is holding down the button, so i am not hearing neal. say something else or give some analysis so they can fix my audio. now i hear you. great. the president, like many people willfully reading things that he is seeing, oh, you know, this isn t a big deal, i am cleared. the words are the words, and the words are damning right now. and if i am the president to want, i am besides myself and frankly frightened. we know the president has capacity for self-delusion but this one is a hard one. ....
Related matters that are quote core to his investigation. learned about all of these things because of his quote regular contact to unnamed people in the trump organization. could be employees could be family members. federal prosecutors in new york not impressed at all. i was reading the filing and it is a thrashing. they hammer him and they note that he wasn t ever actually a cooperating witness, that he didn t do everything he could have done. and committed four distinct federal crimes they say that he was motivated by personal greed, that he used his own power and influence for deception. and they note where the law ....
The filing which said that cohen made these campaign finance payments at the direction of trump. and what we are talking about here are payments made to two women for their silence. and what happened was that cohen paid those folks and did so at a time when you are only supposed to give $2,700 to a campaign. and congress has said we don t want rich people buying elections. so on page 11, the southern district prosecutors say that was done at the direction of trump. and the next page, page 12, quote the agreement principal purpose to suppress this women s story. prevent it from influencing the election. they are taking away the trump defense. i was doing it to protect my ....
Committed and the only get out of jail card that he seems to be holding is that i am a president, you can t indict me. go home. what you are suggesting in terms of journalistic rigor and fairness, i want to make sure we explore the other side of this. we are talking about a filing that talks directly to court about the president being an unindicted co-conspirator. making it worse for the president. and on the flip side apart from the constitutional argument of indicting, isn t there a defense to the president that he may have been dealing with someone who was overzealous and did this the wrong way. he didn t direct quote-unquote the criminal intent. to a degree that it became a ....