Chump continues to tweet
about Mueller and his posse of angry Democrats. Of course, that's a
lie. Let's look at the Cohen sentencing memo coming from the Southern
District of NY. This was not Mueller. Chump
failed to nominate a US attorney for the Southern District after he
fired Preet Bharara.. So the forty or so judges in the district
unanimously agreed to appoint Geoffrey Berman, using an unusual
provision in the law. Berman is a lifelong Republican. After
being appointed, Berman recused himself from the Cohen matter,
presumably because he had a conflict of interest. So his deputy Robert
Khuzami took over the Cohen investigation. Khuzami is also a
Republican.
Khuzami's sentencing memo
was a blistering rebuke of Cohen's payment of hush money in order to
help swing the election for Chump. Most importantly the memo explicitly
stated that Cohen acted at the direction of Chump (identified
as individual one, who was running for president). This means that
Khuzami stated that Chump committed a crime. In fact, the crime
wasn't merely payment of hush money, it was a conspiracy to commit the
crime which makes it more serious than the crime
itself. There is no explanation why Chump was not indicted since the
prosecutor said he committed a crime. Maybe it was in keeping with the
Justice Department policy that a president can not be charged with a
crime. Maybe Khazami buckled under the enormity
of such an action. Or maybe, Chump got a little bit of a break because
the republican U.S. attorney could not bring himself to indict a
republican president. There should be no doubt in anyone's mind,
however, that in official court documents the Justice
Department has stated the Donald J. Chump has committed a serious
felony.
As is my wont, I watched
coverage of the memos obsessively on MSNBC and CNN. All of the
commentators correctly stated that these memos were huge. My problem
with the commentators is that they repeatedly said that it looks like
Mueller is wrapping up the investigation. I don't think so. The
crimes committed by Cohen, Flynn and Manafort identified so far, by and
large are not related to Russian interference in the election and
Russian conspiracy with Chump, his children and his
son in law. Nothing so far has touched on the infamous Trump Tower
meeting. Nothing has touched upon Chump's statement before the meeting
that in the next week there would be a pile of information about
Hillary. The Tower meeting turned out to be a bust,
and Chump did not deliver the goods as promised. How can there be any
doubt that Chump had advance knowledge of the meeting? Chump had a
personal interest in writing the false narrative about the meeting. I
believe that Mueller will eventually report far
more facts about Chump's conspiracy with Russia than anyone outside of
Mueller knows. I suspect that the redactions in the Flynn memo are
explosive. They almost certainly involve Russia. And for good measure I
am willing to bet that Chump committed perjury
when he answered Mueller's questions.
The crime which may be
charged is a conspiracy to cause harm to the United States. How is that
for a sitting president? Some might call it treason. Chump has
attempted to destroy the institutions of government which make our
country great. The institutions are much stronger than this two bit
criminal.
I could go on with a
college course of more things to say.. The problem is that our brains
can explode with all of this stuff. So I hope my little bit of analysis
puts all of this into perspective. As always, thanks for listening.
Richard
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