Why Deep State Sabotage Is Way Worse Than Trump’s Atrocious Infidelities
If the left succeeds in forcing Donald Trump out of office, the damage to our democratic republic cannot be overstated.
By Margot Cleveland
August 28, 2018
Character counts. But so do the consequences of criminalizing the election of the “wrong†president. That’s what I concluded after noodling over last week’s guilty plea by President Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, and the reignited calls for his impeachment or a forced resignation.
Cohen’s claim that he paid off stripper Stormy Daniels at the behest of Trump rallied the anti-Trump brigade around a new theory for ousting him from the Oval Office: Trump’s purported campaign-finance violations. But the allegation of criminal campaign-finance wrongdoing fails on several levels.
Legal experts disagree on whether the payment would constitute a violation of election law, even if Trump had told Cohen to pay for Daniels’ silence. To reach the level necessary for criminal liability — as opposed to a civil Federal Election Commission fine — Trump would have needed to possess the requisite intent. Given the disagreement among election-law attorneys concerning whether a violation even occurred, a prosecutor would be hard-pressed to prove Trump committed a criminal offense. And then the “high crimes and misdemeanors†hurdle would trip up any impeachment scenario.
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