A Liberal Calls Out His Own

The mania for driving President Donald Trump from office
by any means possible has reached epic, and epically
desperate proportions. The Liberal Establishment and their
"Deep State" chums, along with the ever-compliant, always
reliable propaganda machine-cum-lamestream media have
been trying their absolute damndest to find or manufacture
some charge(s) to impeach and remove the president from
office. Now they have seized on this stratagem: tie President
Trump to his now ex-lawyer Michael Cohen and the latter's
recent guilty plea to violation of campaign finance laws in
arranging monetary payments to Stormy McDaniels and
Karen McDougal, two women that Trump had allegedly
had affairs with long before he ran for the presidency.

Esteemed Harvard University Constitutional law Professor
Alan Dershowitz, who has voiced his discomfort regarding
the attempts to remove President Trump from office
and the dogging of people close, or formerly close to the
president, told Fox News this week that "The law is clear
that a president may contribute to his own campaign so if
the President had paid $280,000 to these two women even
if he had done so in order to help his campaign that (it)
would be no problem, that's legal, and if Cohen had made
the contribution that would be unlawful because he has a
limit of $5,200 so the complicated issue is what if Trump
told him to do it as Cohen says?" Cohen perhaps was coaxed
by the prosecution to confess to a campaign law violation
which, according to Prof. Dershowitz was not a campaign
law violation at all, in order to have Cohen say something
negative about the President in order to have something to
pin on him with an eye toward impeachment.

Dershowitz explained that, in that case, it would still not
constitute a crime because Cohen would be acting as
President Trump's representative. He further averred
"The campaign contribution would be lawful as long as the
president ultimately paid for it, so the prosecutor's in a
bit of a Catch-22. If he believes Cohen that the president
directed him to do it then it's not a crime at all; if he
doesn't believe Cohen then Cohen committed a crime
but not the president." That is to say that if the prosecutor
believes that Cohen isn't being truthful here, then Cohen
was acting on his own, separately from the president.
Many Democrat senators along with the establishment
press have been trying to pin the label of "unindicted
co-conspirator" on President Trump regarding the actions
of Cohen, who had fallen out with the president over, among
other things, Cohen having secretly taped conversations
with him in 2016 re: transferring money to someone they
called "a friend". The audio was muddled so it was not clear
whether or not Trump had directed Cohen to "pay with cash"
or to not so pay more than one woman with whom Trump
had allegedly had an affair. CNN obtained it and ran with
it to try to implicate Trump in something illegal, and
some prominent Senate democrats joined in after Cohen's
guilty plea.

But the details from that tape were obscured and therefore
sketchy at best, causing Prof. Dershowitz dismissed the label of
"co-conspirator" on that basis. The professor stated "You don't
become an unindicted co-conspirator if your action is lawful even
though the action of the other person is unlawful.And why did
Cohen tape his discussions with Trump regarding monetary
payments to anyone? What was his reason? What motivation
had he? It sounds like he had violated his duty to confidentiality
between himself and his client. Admittedly your factual Peasant
doesn't have the answers to these questions, but hopes that
they are soon revealed and brought before the public. It certainly
seems understandable though as to why Trump had dropped
Cohen as his attorney and confidant.

So if Trump ultimately made the payment through his then-
representative and attorney Cohen, reimbursing the campaign
fund, then indeed no crime was committed. The prosecution
must make the case that Cohen did not act on instruction by
Trump in making the payments, but there is no solid evidence
indicating this. But anything to tarnish the name and reputation
of a president who is so reviled by the establishment creatures
in what President Trump and his supporters have labeled
"The Swamp", so as to weaken him and his presidency and,
quite possibly, impeach and remove him from office. Prof.
Dershowitz, though a political liberal and longtime member
of the Democrat Party, has shown that he is unafraid to call
out and criticize those on his side of the political spectrum
when they act in a manner contrary to the constitutional
protections that safeguard us all, including the president.
He is a man of great integrity, and someone on the Left
whom I have great respect and regard for; I cannot say that
about very many over there! If Prof. Dershowitz cannot
shame his fellow Democrats out of their unconstitutional
and deranged quest to drive from office a duly elected
president who enjoys the support of many Americans, then
the Democrats simply have no shame.

And these people would therefore be unfit to govern.


MEM