Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "How Obama's presidency impacted Trump's rise to power" video.

  1. When Trump leaves the White House in January, he will lose the constitutional protection from prosecution afforded to a sitting president. It's safe to say that Trump will be in legal jeopardy for the rest of his unnatural life. After Jan. 20, Trump will be more vulnerable than ever to a pending grand jury investigation by the Manhattan district attorney into his crooked family business and its practices, as well as his taxes. Trump claims that the investigation by the district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr, is a politically motivated fishing expedition. But if the Supreme Court rules that Vance is entitled to the records, and he uncovers possible crimes, Trump could face a reckoning with law enforcement — raising the possibility of a criminal conviction, or even prison, for a former president. Vance’s subpoena, which sought eight years of Trump’s personal and corporate tax returns and other records from his accounting firm, suggested in court papers that they were investigating a range of potential financial crimes. They include insurance fraud and criminal tax evasion, as well as grand larceny and scheming to defraud — which together are NY State’s equivalent of federal bank fraud charges. Michael Cohen testified under oath before Congress that Trump often inflated the value of his assets when dealing with lenders or potential business partners, but deflated them when it benefited him for tax purposes. Part of Vance's criminal investigation pertains to payments made during Trump's 2016 campaign to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal to prevent them from publicly acknowledging they had affairs with him. Cohen pleaded guilty to orchestrating the payments, which Manhattan federal prosecutors said amounted to illegal gifts to Trump's campaign. They identified Trump in court filings as having directed Cohen's efforts, but he was not charged. Trump has said that he has the “absolute right” to pardon himself for any federal offenses, but that preposterous concept remains untested, because until now,  no president has ever been so corrupt and morally depraved to attempt to do so. A 1974 Justice Department opinion said presidents could not pardon themselves because that would violate the “fundamental rule that no one may be a judge in his own case.
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  2. Rudy: "I've got this leprechaun in my pocket, but here's the thing, I can't show him to you, because he doesn't want to be harassed, and have his entire life torn apart. Plus, the fake news media is always after his lucky charms. So you're just going to have to take my word for it, that there is in fact, a leprechaun in my pocket."
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  3.  @agnosticatheist7529  True. That DoJ guideline/memo has never been challenged.
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