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No "Smocking Gun?" Incoming top Democrats predict impeachment and jail time for Donald Trump

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Mod: If Donald says there was no collusion, or a "smocking gun" if you must, that for me is pretty strong evidence that there was. But look, if Donny Two Fruits can be jailed over paying off Stormy Daniels alone? I'm good. Whatever it takes to lock him up.

Incoming top Democrats predict impeachment and jail time for Trump with increasing confidence (Business Insider link): The incoming chairs of two powerful House committees have predicted a "real prospect of jail time" for President Donald Trump, and said that new accusations about Michael Cohen's illegal hush payments are "impeachable offenses."Rep. Adam Schiff, the incoming chair of the House Intelligence Committee, told the CBS show "Face the Nation" on Sunday: "There's a very real prospect that 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 real prospect of jail time.

"We have been discussing the issue of pardons that the president may offer to people or dangle in front of people. The bigger pardon question may come down the road as the next president has to determine whether to pardon Donald Trump."

Schiff was responding to the latest sentencing document from federal prosecutors on Friday, which said that longtime Trump lawyer and confidant Michael Cohen"acted in coordination with and at the direction of Individual-1."

Individual-1 is widely believed to be Trump. The coordination relates to payments to two women who said they had affairs with Trump.

"With respect to both payments, Cohen acted with the intent to influence the 2016 presidential election," the memo said.

"In particular, and as Cohen himself has now admitted, with respect to both payments, he acted in coordination with and at the direction of Individual-1," it added. "As a result of Cohen's actions, neither woman spoke to the press prior to the election."

Rep. Jerry Nadler, the incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, also told CNN that, if it is proved that Trump directed the payments, that would amount to "impeachable offenses."

Christie: "Feds Have Evidence Against Trump Beyond Cohen"(MSN.comlink): Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said that President Donald Trump’s team should be concerned about the indictment against Michael Cohen because the language used in it suggests that federal prosecutors have further corroborating evidence.

"The language in the sentencing memo is different from what we've heard before,"Christie explained. "The only thing that would concern me if I was the president's team this morning about this sentencing memo is the language."

"The language sounds very definite. And what I'd be concerned about is, what corroboration do they have?" he continued. “Because everyone knows that Michael Cohen is not going to be the most effective or trustworthy witness on the stand, given some of his past statements."

“When prosecutors sound that definitive they've got more usually than just one witness."

Lindsey the Prophet?


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