MGB:_The problem is that Trump believes the propaganda he sees on FoxNews, as do his Tea Party Alt Right supporters. Trump is desparate to believe that a bad FISA warrant might trigger some sort of exclusonary rule that ends the case. His lawyers might even believe that. He needs real lawyers. One of them, James Sukolow, promised the pro-life movement that he could write the Amicus that got Roe overturned in the Carhart case. Not even two recent Bush appointees voted with him. I am sure this fiasco is the result of the same kind of over-promise. I don’t think our institutions are in any danger from this Clown Cart of attorneys, theobviously incompentent Chairman Nunes and Speaker Ryan or the angy old people who keep FoxNews on all day. None of these will stop Democrats in November.
Thing is, Trump thinks he can get off. The election violations are all FEC fines. The Foreign Corrupt Practices violations could be jail but will likely be fines (Trump is dead to rights on both). The clumsey attepts at obstruction likely will earn him censure. It is the hint of a deal between blocking the Russian sanctions and Russian money laundering that gets him. Trump probably thought he just really got great deals in dealing with the Oligarchs. He did not know he or someone in his family is in their pockets and because he is behind lifting the sanctions the arrow points to him. Unless he throws Eric, Don, Jr., Ivanka and/or Jared under the bus and pleads not only ignorance but idiocy (even if true), he can’t blame the case on FISA warrants. Any asset manager with a computer (like Fusion GPS pre Steele) can demonstrate De Novo that these deals were fishy. Whether this is enough to get GOP leaders to get Trump to resign before or after November is hard to say. Harder is whether enough GOP Senators will turn or stay away from a trial in the Senate to get a conviction.
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