Bush admin ethics chief: Trump's only way out is a plea deal and resigning
13 replies, posted
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/richard-painter-trump-way-out_us_5c11ca15e4b0449012f67e3c
President Donald Trump is out of options, according to Richard Painter, the former chief ethics attorney for President George W. Bush. “It’s quite clear his goose is cooked here,” he said
Wednesday on MSNBC.
Painter said the three-year prison sentence handed down on Wednesday to Michael Cohen, Trump’s former longtime personal attorney, should be a warning sign to the White House.
“If the lawyer gets three years, how much time should the client get?” he asked.
Painter added that Cohen’s crimes don’t even include any allegations related to Russia, currently the subject of special counsel Robert Mueller investigation. He said Trump has just
one way out to protect himself and his family: a comprehensive plea deal to federal and state charges in exchange for his resignation.
“Donald Trump is in serious trouble. His lawyers ought to be telling him to negotiate a plea deal,” Painter said. “Get him out of the White House. Have him resign, plead guilty to lower
charges and let’s move on as a country.” Later, on Twitter, Painter called it “The Art of the Plea Bargain,” a not-so-subtle reference to Trump’s book The Art of The Deal, and he urged
Trump to act fast.
Painter served in the Bush White House from 2005-2007, but has since turned into a vocal Trump critic. He was a lifelong Republican until this year, when he ran and lost in a primary
as a Democrat against Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith. Earlier this year, he predicted prison sentences for Trump insiders over Mueller’s Russia investigation.
https://puu.sh/ChhIC.png
describes the trump administration completely.
oh god give me time to make the finale please donny
He wont
He's gonna crash and burn
The Bush administration had an Ethics chief?
"for the good of the country"
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA even if this wasn't trump, they did that once with nixon and the right responded by building their own anti leftist news networks and began conditioning voters to hate the left because the higher ups in the gop believed it was the left that took out nixon not that he was a fucking awful person.
there will be no "for the good of the country" moment. this will be long, protracted, ugly, and brutal.
Well they got a year to finish the investigations or they can't do much for fear of influencing the 2020 election.
The Art of the Plea Bargain
"I make the best pleas"
What was so bad about Watergate was that Nixon p much won by sabotaging peace talks that The McGovern Campaign was undergoing with the North Vietnamese. George McGovern is probably the best person who ever ran for president in my book.
then he came in and got more people killed so he could have peace talks on his terms.
yeah and he seized the convertibility of federal reserve notes to gold in order to fund it.
did you know that there are leftest economic scholars who say something to the effect of "we went off the gold standard so that the bourgeois' money will no longer be tied to something tangible?"
I don't really think the gold standard would have survived the 70s anyways. the fed was actually completely clueless at managing the economy back then. it wasn't till the 90s they started targeting inflation but that's not exactly lead us down a good path either what with it outpacing wage growth consistantly
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.
