I think this comment at Powerline is quite descriptive of the Michael Cohen plea situation: So the real trick here is pretty simple. Threaten a man with 8 counts that would cost him millions to defend and could send him … Continue reading →
Perhaps: Top Senate Republicans sent dueling signals on Thursday about whether it would be safe for President Donald Trump to fire the attorney general he can’t stand… The back-and-forth on the Hill came just as Sessions took the rare step … Continue reading →
My finger is not on the pulse of movies, and so I’d never heard of Asia Argento before the Weinstein scandal in which she was one of his earliest and most vocal accusers, a regular star of the #MeToo movement. … Continue reading →
McCarthy writes: The Justice Department has a history of treating serious campaign-finance transgressions as administrative violations, not felonies. A prominent example: The 2008 Obama campaign accepted nearly $2 million in illegal campaign contributions, but was permitted to settle the matter … Continue reading →
The first sentence of this article is telling, isn’t it?: President Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort on Tuesday was found guilty of eight of the 18 charges brought against him by special counsel Robert Mueller. It’s really quite simple: … Continue reading →
Pot’s illegality hasn’t stopped it from being used with great frequency in recent years by a great deal of the American public. So why not legalize it? Well, one reason might be that it would result in even higher use: … Continue reading →
Any prognosticators out there?
Continue reading →Another excellent article by Andrew C. McCarthy in National Review, this time on the way perjury traps are set. He starts out by talking about why Trump’s attorneys are saying that Trump shouldn’t talk to Mueller because of the likelihood … Continue reading →
Just read it.
Continue reading →I keep trying to get away from it, but something about this story keeps gnawing at me. So here are some more details of Gates’ testimony against Manafort [emphasis mine]: On the stand, Gates testified that he and Manafort knowingly … Continue reading →
I know I’ve already written recently about the Manafort trial and Rick Gates’s testimony but I feel the urge to link to this post by streiff at RedState because it contains some tweets with details of the courtroom shenanigans that … Continue reading →
I certainly wouldn’t—not unless there was convincing corroborating evidence of the truth of what he is saying. And really, that wouldn’t be believing Gates—it would be believing the corroborating evidence. Here’s the situation as it now stands: Manafort’s former business … Continue reading →