Indictment-O-Rama, Act 3: Cohen Up the River

[The Mikado]

3 years is a substantial amount of time for a first offender on this sort of nonviolent crime. Cohen's not getting off easy. Won't be eligible for early release for 2 1/2 years.

Has to report to prison in March.

[The Mikado]

https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/1073328975634669569

Mike Pence was chairman of the inaugural committee. As Spiro Agnew learned, yes the VP can be indicted. I would love to see a sitting VP get indicted. Maybe Pence could cooperate with the feds against Trump?

That was never tested. He literally resigned from the Vice Presidency in the courthouse about 10 minutes before pleading guilty, as part of a pre-negotiated deal. So he was indicted and pleaded guilty as a private citizen, minutes after ceasing to be Vice President.

[The Mikado]

Side note: does anyone else feel like Atlas as a whole has severely underestimated the scope and potential impact of this investigation since it started?

Part of the problem is that, as this is a political forum, people tend to only care about the political ramifications, rather than the other ones, of which there are many. The Trump Organization as a business will likely not exist at all five or even three years from now, for example.

[The Mikado]

If the Senate Judiciary Committee is hearing from Barr next week, confirmation will likely be, what, two weeks from now? And Rosenstein's leaving when Barr comes in, right? Two weeks is not a very long time. Mueller either needs to reach an understanding with Barr (possible, but I'm not betting on it) or just dump everything relatively soon.

[The Mikado]

Could Trump get the death penalty?

"Treason" isn't on the cards no matter what as the US isn't at war with Russia. (Same thing with the Rosenbergs, actually)

[The Mikado]

https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1085721427402092

This video is 100% must watch right now.

[The Mikado]

Oh.

It was just the Chris Cuomo clip.

https://twitter.com/CuomoPrimeTime/status/1085725959653871616

Watch it, though.

[The Mikado]

Just leaving these here:

https://twitter.com/JoaquinCastrotx/status/1086116842224140289

https://twitter.com/davidcicilline/status/1086104186704539649

[The Mikado]

We're getting closer to the 'invasion of Sicily' moment when Trump's supporters on the GOP will all turn on him at once, especially now Trump has caved on the wall.

Which 'invasion of Sicily' are you referring to?  There are so many.  The one in which the Athenians overplayed their hand during the Peloponnesian War and lost decisively, or the allied invasion after North Africa was secured from the Nazis and General Rommel expelled with his army?  And then there's the Roman invasion that led to the Punic Wars, and ultimately resulted in Rome -at the expense of Carthage, it's closest rival- becoming the undisputed master of Mediterranean world.  And I haven't even touched on the medieval period yet.    

I think the implicit comparison is being made of il douchebag Trump to il duce Mussolini, and therefore the reference is to. If this is really the right analogy, then I guess Putin must be Hitler, and eventually after things go too far downhill for him there will be a Spetsnaz raid to rescue Trump from the clutches of Mueller, but it will turn out to be for naught.

If you're going with this, what small resort town plays the role of Salo? Aspen?

[The Mikado]

https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/1098281341840441345

They're gonna try and cover this up

I don't see how. Any report exonerating Trump is obviously worthless. After all, he's spent the last two years telling us it's a fake witch hunt. The House should redo the whole thing in an impartial fashion.

If we don't get a public report and become aware that we most likely may never get one, the House must either acquiesce to the cover up or conduct their own investigation. The absolute worse case for Democrats if they go forward with their own investigation is that this becomes their next Benghazi level conspiracy theory. The best case for Democrats if they let it go is that it becomes the next birth certificate level conspiracy theory.  These are the absolute worst case scenario because dozens of people are either in jail or going to jail over this. There's a there there and there is obviously fire. Anything short of something at least recommending the start of impeachment proceedings will make the entire Mueller thing look like a massive cover up.  

Maybe our friends on the far-left are right that  we are spending too much time on the issues of corruption and enemy intelligence infiltration in the Federal government. But they are important issues.

It's easy enough to deal with a "cover-up" by having Judiciary invite Mueller to testify publicly and subpoenaing the original report that Barr's summary is going to be based on.