CNN screwed up (as did other networks) having Davis on; never believe the word of a paid sycophant.
Tell me though, do you truly think there are "no laws broken" when Cohen has pleaded guilty to serious charges and all but named Trump as the person who has directed him to pay off women with whom he's had affairs? Do our elected officials having ethics, integrity, and morals not matter to you?
You can't be so naive as to think that Trump is innocent with so many of his colleagues having been found guilty or pleading guilty in exchange for reduced sentences or offering to cooperate? I remember when there was a brouhaha about Obama's association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright who was caught spouting inflammatory rhetoric, and how that had to mean something about who Obama was. Well, now Manafort has been guilty by a jury of 12 Americans of being guilty on 8 federal counts, several of Trump's campaign committee have pleaded guilty to various egregious charges and are awaiting sentencing. Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Foundation's Chief Financial Officer, David Pecker, Chairman and CEO of American Media, and Dylan Howard, AMI's chief content officer all got immunity deals last week - every single one of these men know Trump's deepest, darkest secrets, helped bury them for him, and now are cooperating in exchange for immunity. If you still think Trump is innocent and this is a witch hunt, I have coastline to sell you.
Don't be surprised if Donald Trump Jr is indicted soon.
AP: National Enquirer hid damaging Trump stories in a safe
By Jeff Horwitz | AP
August 23
WASHINGTON — The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents on hush money payments and other damaging stories it killed as part of its cozy relationship with Donald Trump leading up to the 2016 presidential election, people familiar with the arrangement told The Associated Press.
The detail came as several media outlets reported on Thursday that federal prosecutors had granted immunity to National Enquirer chief David Pecker, potentially laying bare his efforts to protect his longtime friend Trump.
Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg granted immunity in Cohen probe
Kevin Breuninger | Tucker Higgins
Published 10:48 AM ET Fri, 24 Aug 2018
Allen Weisselberg, longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, has been granted immunity by federal prosecutors as part of their investigation into President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, NBC News reported Friday, citing multiple people with knowledge of the matter.
On Tuesday, without using Weisselberg's name, federal prosecutors accused him in a document of instructing an unidentified Trump Organization employee to reimburse Cohen for hush-money payments to one of two women who claimed they had extramarital affairs with Trump.
The immunity grant to Weisselberg, who is referred to as "Executive 1" in the Manhattan federal court documents, adds to the legal woes of the president.
Immunity for Trump CFO Is a Potential Game-Changer
Prosecutors know that Allen Weisselberg is privy to the Trump Organization’s most sensitive information.
By Timothy L. O'Brien, Bloomberg Opinion
August 24, 2018
Allen Weisselberg is an unassuming, soft-spoken guy who has spent decades avoiding the limelight, first in the 1970s as an accountant for President Donald Trump’s father, Fred, and then as the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer.
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Weisselberg — who has also watched over the president’s personal finances and tax returns while currently running the Trump Organization with Trump’s two eldest sons — received immunity from federal prosecutors in their case against Trump’s lawyer and self-described fixer, Michael Cohen.
Weisselberg’s cooperation is a potentially momentous turn of events for the president. Depending on how prosecutors proceed, it may take the federal tax- and bank-fraud investigation of Cohen — and, more important, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe involving Russian interference in the 2016 election — out of some of the relatively low-stakes legal issues in play so far and into the heart of the Trump Organization and the president’s business and financial dealings.
Last month, it was reported that a grand jury had subpoenaed Weisselberg to testify in the federal investigation of Cohen and Trump’s hush-money payments to two Trump paramours during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Pecker’s immunity agreement may, therefore, be relatively narrow and limited to the prosecution of Cohen by the Manhattan U.S. attorney. Weisselberg, on the other hand, surely knows things that travel beyond the borders of the Cohen investigation and into the more sprawling landscape of potential crimes that Mueller is investigating — including obstruction of justice, aiding and abetting a fraud, conspiracy against the U.S., and, in the words of the Constitution’s impeachment clause, possible “high crimes and misdemeanors” in the Oval Office.
And remember: It was a forensic accountant — the guy who knew all the boring details about taxes and buried financial bodies — who ultimately brought down Al Capone.
https://twitter.com/SpicyFiles/status/1033147622046031873
Dear MSM,
The next twitter thread is just for you.
1) Trump + Pecker + Cohen circa 2010
2) you should really read the next tweet because I spent a few hours doing the research for you on the random 2011 PAC.
Wait for it...
No really you should probably dig deeper into this and at some point you will understand why the Trump Foundation and Iowa are oh so important
maddogpac.com/blogs/spicy-files/donald-trump-foundation-redux
John Oberlin @OMGno2trump Aug 25
Here's the situation. The Cohen case identifies 2 Trump executives and a media company as co-conspirators. The media company is Pecker, execute-1 is Weisselberg, CFO for Trump. So, Cohen, Pecker and Weisselberg have immunity to testify against executive-2. That's Trump Jr.
Natasha Bertrand Verified Account @NatashaBertrand Aug 24
Jerry George, the former LA bureau chief of the National Enquirer, tells @CNN that Trump had stories killed about his kids, ex-wives, and Melania, too. Says David Pecker knows about all of it.
Joyce Alene Verified account @JoyceWhiteVance Aug 24
You don’t give Trump Org CFO Weisselberg & David Pecker immunity just to prosecute Michael Cohen.
Kyle Griffin Verified account @kylegriffin1 Aug 23
The Manhattan district attorney's office is considering pursuing criminal charges against the Trump Organization and two senior company officials in connection with Michael Cohen's hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, NYT reports.
www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/nyregion/trum...l-charges-vance.html
Walter Shaub Verified account @waltshaub Aug 24
Lying in an OGE disclosure form is a crime. These can't be reconciled:
“Mr. Weisselberg arranged for the Trump Organization to reimburse Mr. Cohen” (WSJ)
The payments “came from me" (Trump on Wednesday)
“Mr. Trump fully reimbursed Mr. Cohen in 2017” (Trump's OGE disclosure)
