Sunday, December 09, 2018

He's their crook


And the Republicans in Congress are sticking with The Orange Humperdoo come hell or high water, for the time being. If one listens to their various apologia of his crimes one can almost hear the calculations running through their heads as to how long they should do this.
Republicans on Sunday defended President Trump amid mounting legal woes stemming from the special counsel probe led by Robert S. Mueller III, with some brushing aside new court filings that detail previously unreported contacts between Russia and Trump’s 2016 campaign and directly implicate the president in plans to buy women’s silence.

In an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) played down the alleged campaign finance violations detailed by prosecutors, arguing that such missteps should not be “over-criminalized.”

“I personally think that if someone makes an error in filing paperwork or not categorizing, it shouldn’t be jail time, it ought to be a fine,” Paul said. He added that if campaign finance violations are aggressively prosecuted, “we’re going to become a banana republic, where every president gets prosecuted and every president gets thrown in jail when they’re done with office.”

The senator also contended that there was nothing illegal about Trump’s efforts to build a hotel in Moscow during the 2016 campaign, so long as he didn’t promise anything in exchange for it.
That is a big if there Senator. And while the gun isn't smoking it sure is pointed at his having done so.
On Friday, federal prosecutors filed new court papers implicating Trump in plans to buy the silence of women who might go public with allegations of affairs with him. The documents also revealed that Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney, told prosecutors about what appeared to be a previously unknown November 2015 contact with a Russian national who offered the Trump campaign “synergy on a government level.”

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Sunday on CBS News’s “Face the Nation” that “there’s no reason to not stand by anybody in this moment,” drawing a distinction between individuals who have been accused of crimes and pleaded guilty and others, presumably Trump. Rubio emphasized “the right of someone to argue that the evidence is not what you say it is.”
While it is true that even The Orange Humperdoo is innocent until proven guilty, they are particularly chary of calling for full support of the Mueller investigation to exonerate OH as everything coming out so far has gone the other way. But the Republicans have hitched their horse to OH and, in the spirit of mixing my metaphors, see no reason to break their rice bowls yet.

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