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TRUMP IN SERIOUS TROUBLE
Since taking office two years ago, President Trump’s life has been placed under a legal microscope and now his worst political nightmare is about to unfold in front of the American people. Months of damaging legal revelations have left his political career clouded by criminality and his life, his presidency and his business empire under assault by relentless prosecutors on multiple fronts.
Several months of investigations, court filings, flipped witnesses, hurtful disclosures, indictments and guilty pleas by key associates have delivered severe blows to Trump that could expose him to deep legal and political trouble and the possibility of being impeached.
The volume of material being churned out by special counsel Robert Mueller and other federal prosecutors have exposed Trump’s presidency, beset by a number of scandals and illegalities that are staggering, breathless and difficult for the mind to comprehend.
The seventeen active criminal investigations currently underway at federal, state and local levels against the Trump presidency, his campaign, his inaugural committee, his business, his organization and his charity foundation speak volumes of a man who during the campaign had said that if elected president, he would drain the swamp in Washington.
President Trump has angered so many Americans that not even his fellow Republicans are prepared to give him and his associates a free pass. He has been indirectly fingered in criminal attempts to subvert the campaign finance laws by the US attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York, Trump’s own appointee. Meanwhile, many of his key associates have pleaded guilty, some for offences unrelated to the President but which have offered prosecutors with insightful information of Mr. Trump’s own conduct.
His former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is in jail on charges unrelated to Trump’s campaign. His former attorney Michael Cohen who once said that he would take a bullet for President Trump has flipped, pleaded guilty to a felony, and has been sentenced to three years in prison. His deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates is now a convicted felon. George Papadopoulos, a former member of his foreign policy advisory team has pleaded guilty to a felony charge and served 30 days in jail. His former national security adviser Michael Flynn may avoid prison because he presented solid information to Special Counsel after turning against his former boss. These guilty deals have added to the already perilous state of President Trump’s legal and political woes.
The trail of dishonesty and deceit is evident even before Special Counsel Robert Mueller has delivered what could ultimately be his most explosive findings – that is if he found evidence that the President’s campaign cooperated with Russia and obstructed justice in the firing of former FBI Director James Comey in an effort to thwart the Mueller investigations.
A full assessment of the depth of Trump’s political and legal predicament may only become clear next year when the Democrats take control of the House. But the President has already expressed concern that he could be impeached. But even if he is impeached by Democrats in the House, it is not likely that he will be removed from office, because it would require two-third of the votes in the Senate, which is controlled by Republicans, to remove him from office. However, unless there are charges of high crimes and misdemeanours against Mr. Trump, it seems unlikely that Democrats in the House will risk an impeachment process.
Even if Mr. Trump is cleared of all wrongdoing, his presidency would still be remembered as one of the most scandal-ridden of modern history. He has maintained that he did nothing wrong but is being investigated by rogue prosecutors who have always hated him. While much has been learned about the President’s legal problems recently, the true extent of his liability remains to be seen.
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