Euphoric over the victory in the House of Representatives in the Nov. 8 Midterm elections, Democrats threatened to impeach and toss 72-year-old President Donald Trump in jail. Incoming House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), one of Trump’s biggest critics on Capitol Hill, threatened to impeach and lock up the president for allegedly paying hush money to alleged former mistresses, adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal. New postings by Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicate that Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen paid hush money to Daniels and McDougal in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. Schiff insists that Trump approved Cohen’s payouts to Daniels and McDougal, something illegal under campaign finance laws. Schiff’s aware that former Democrat VP candidate John Edwards was acquitted in 2012 on similar charges.
Federal prosecutors could never prove Edwards motive for buying the silence of a former mistress Rielle Hunter. Acquitting Edwards May 31, 2012 of campaign finance violations, the jury could not establish Edward’s motive in trying by pay for Hunter’s silence. Schiff and other zealous Democrats think they have a smoking gun with Trump, when, all they really have, is more bad publicity. If and when any jury gets in front of two of Trump’s alleged affairs, they’ll find it difficult to ascertain a motive for trying to silence his alleged mistresses. Yet Schiff has already tried, convicted and sentenced Trump, when no one really knows whether some alleged 12-year-old affair would play well in the federal courts. While there are real questions whether or not an incumbent president can be criminally charged and prosecuted, Schiff thinks, as the Dem’s new Intel Committee Chairman, he can lock Trump up.
Hanging on every word, Schiff knows how to titillate the media, all hoping that Trump gets tossed from office. ”There’s a very real prospect on the day Donald Trump leaves office, the Justice Department may indict him, that he may be the first president in quite some time to face the very real prospect of jail time,” Schiff said, grossly exaggerating the facts pandering to the tabloid-hungry press. Schiff knows that Trump will never do jail time for alleged affairs 12 years before taking office, because it assumes facts not in evidence. No one, other than Schiff and the most partisan members of Congress and U.S. media, believes Trump has committed impeachable offenses, let alone real crimes. With 13 women coming forward with women’s rights Atty. Lisa Bloom claiming affairs with Trump before the 2016 election, how’s it possible for Schiff to prove Trump’s motives in 2016 presidential election?
Even the worst case scenario that the Justice Department proves its case that Cohen paid Daniels and McDougal for their silence, that still doesn’t explain Trump’s motive other that disposing of nuisance accusations. Incoming House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) went over the deep-end accusing Trump of fraud. Nadler thinks Mueller’s filing about Michael Cohen’s payouts to Daniels and McDougal shows that Trump was “at the center of a massive fraud.” Democrats jumped all over Mueller’s recent filings about Cohen’s payouts because it looks like a “smoking gun,” but actually has nothing to do with Russian meddling or alleged Trump collusion in the 2016 presidential election. Nadler knows there’s nothing in Mueller’s findings that shows impeachable offences since Trump’s been in office. Talking about 12-year-old alleged affairs show Democrats desperation.
With Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling and alleged Trump collusion, drawing to an end, it’s uncertain whether or not Mueller will ever issue a final report to the Justice Department. Trump officials indicated they would write a rebuttal to any Mueller report, despite the fact that no such report may ever come out. Mueller might be content to prosecute and convict low hanging fruit, never answering the mandated question over whether Russia meddled in the 2016 or whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin. “I think we also need to see this as a part of a broader patter of potential misconduct by the president, and it’s that broad pattern, I think, that will lead us to conclusion whether it rises to the level to warrant removal from office,” Nadler said, pumped up with new his job as House Judiciary Committee Chairman, looking forward to 2019.
Democrats have jumped the gun on what they plan to do to either impeach the president or see that he’s charged with any crimes. Mueller’s recent postings offer nothing new about Trump’s alleged attempts to pay-for-silence with two formers mistresses. Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) urged his Democrats colleagues to take a more cautious approach to the Mueller investigation, especially when it comes to Trump’s impeachment or criminal conduct. Even some Republicans like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fl.), still bitter over his 2016 loss to Trump in the primaries, likes talking smack about Trump on cable and network news shows. Rubio warned Trump about pardoning former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort charged by Mueller with bank fraud, money laundering and tax evasion. All the Dem’s chatter about Trump’s impeachment and criminal prosecution make sensational headlines.
