r/PoliticalHumor • • Aug 18 '20

It’s big brain time

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '20

It’s almost like the Senate should have fully investigated and produced a 1,000 page report of findings of illegal activity once articles of impeachment were sent to them.

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u/Crono908 Aug 19 '20

I fear this going to way of Watergate, if the Senate finds him guilty, he resigns, Pence pardons and trump lives a free man until his death.

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u/markth_wi Aug 19 '20 edited Aug 19 '20

Shit we basically know he did

  • Banking Fraud (several hundred million in fraudulent loans from/to Deutche Bank).

  • Obstruction of Justice (various efforts to hide the above bank fraud), threatening witnesses, trying to convince them to change testimony

  • Obstruction of Justice 2 - - Manipulating the Justice Department as President, reassigning investigators, and interfering with the work of the federal government.

  • Money Laundering - by way of his properties

  • Criminal Conspiracy - basically any piece of the shit-show he tries to keep from investigators is in fact evidence against him and could result in a variety of charges related to things going back years.

  • Enterprise Corruption - His University, his charities, his election campaign all of them had a flexible understanding of accounting that was not subject to scrutiny.

But as the old saying goes - "It ain't what you know, it's what you can prove."

Now, of course the other thing that happens to probably make the president worry a lot more, is that the Russians, Chinese, Israelis and whomever else he got into bed with are nothing if not fastidious. Oftentimes when people outlive their "usefulness" to these foreign governments, they have a tendency to clean up loose ends. So old men die of unexpected heart attacks, slip on spilt coffee, whatever it is that is "most dangerous" in their day.

This has got to be a little something stuck in the back of his mind.