You Won't Believe Who's Calling for Impeachment Now!
Donald Trump’s presidency is at risk of imploding today – at least according to the latest pundit to jump on the impeachment bandwagon.
It all began with new filings made by Special Counsel Robert Mueller this week that outline President Trump’s involvement with Michael Cohen’s payments to two women who attempted to extort the sitting President for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Trump certainly believes that this falls outside of the scope of Mueller’s intended quest to find “Russian collusion” – something that these filings make no direct mention of.
Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC, however, believes that this could send the President packing.
“If Donald Trump lost the election and federal prosecutors were pursuing this same case, he would be pursuing exactly the same consequences as Michael Cohen,” O’Donnell saidon the Last Word Friday night. “He would be charged with exactly the same two campaign finance violation crimes for arranging secret payments to two women during the campaign to buy their silence about their sexual affairs with Donald Trump.”
“And so if history means anything in the Trump era, if precedent means anything in the Trump era, Donald Trump will be, must be, impeached because of the crimes prosecutors say he committed in the Michael Cohen case,” he added.
O’Donnell’s comments came after federal prosecutors recommended Cohen serve “substantial” prison time for his crimes, even though he cooperated with the Mueller investigation.
For many Americans, it is difficult to stomach the idea that Donald Trump’s presidency would be ended by a Robert Mueller filing regarding Michael Cohen – especially one that doesn’t meet the longstanding expectations of Russian collusion investigation set forth by democrats a year and a half ago.