President Trump wants more out of a second term than that far-from-built wall.
As multiple investigations continue to swirl, Trump has taken comfort in the fact that current Justice Department policy says "a president cannot be indicted while in office," people close to Trump tell The New York Times. In fact, the promise of using the presidency as a legal shield is reportedly one of the reasons Trump wants to stay in the White House.
On Tuesday, the Times published copies of six checks Trump paid to his former lawyer Michael Cohen. They're among 11 checks Cohen received to cover "hush payments to prevent alleged sexual misconduct from being exposed before the 2016 presidential election," the Times says. Cohen provided two of those checks to Congress last week, and pleaded guilty last year to financial crimes relating to those payments.
Cohen implicated Trump in his campaign finance crimes last year, and these check copies only add to the "quality of the evidence" against Cohen and Trump, former White House counsel Robert Bauer tells the Times. This "now leaves little doubt that [Trump] faces criminal prosecution after he leaves office," says Bauer, who served under former President Barack Obama. So it's no wonder that Trump is trying to hunker down in the Oval Office as long as he can. Read more at The New York Times. Kathryn Krawczyk
freakincampers on March 6th, 2019 at 15:21 UTC »
Any statute of limitations should pause while you are President.
The President shouldn't be able to commit a crime, and simply wait out the time while in office.
cerevant on March 6th, 2019 at 15:15 UTC »
My fantasy image of Jan 2021 is Trump being perp-walked out of the White House.
Don_Obi_Wan on March 6th, 2019 at 15:00 UTC »
Just indict him now and let's end the ridiculousness of not indicting a sitting President.