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Top House Dems raise prospect of impeachment, jail for Trump Associated Press
2018-12-11 00:33:13
President Donald Trump crosses the field after the first half of an NCAA college football game between the Army and the Navy, Saturday, December 8, 2018, in Philadelphia. (Photo by MATT ROURKE / AP)
WASHINGTON --- Top House Democrats have raised the prospect of impeachment or the real possibility of prison time for President Donald Trump if it’s proved that he directed illegal hush money payments to women, adding to legal pressure on the president over the Russia investigation and other scandals.
“There’s a very real prospect that one day Donald Trump leaves office, the Justice Department may indict him, that he may be the first president in quite some time to face the real prospect of jail time, “The bigger pardon question may come down the road as the next president has to determine whether to pardon Donald Trump.”
Rep. Jerry Nadler, the incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, described the details in prosecutors’ filings Friday in the case of Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, as evidence that Trump was “at the center of a massive fraud.”
“They would be impeachable offences,” Nadler said.
In the filings, prosecutors in New York for the first time the link Trump to a federal crime of illegal payments to buy the silence of two women during the 2016 campaign.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office also laid out previously undisclosed contact between Trump associates and Russian intermediaries and suggested the Kremlin aimed early on to influence Trump and his Republican campaign by playing to both his political and personal business interest.
Trump has denied wrongdoing and has compared the investigation to a “witch hunt.”
Nadler, Democrat-New York, said it was too early to say whether Congress would pursue impeachment proceedings based on illegal payment alone because lawmakers would need to weigh the gravity of the offense to justify “overturning” The 2016 election.
Nadler and other lawmakers said Sunday they would await additional details of Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference and possible coordination with the Trump campaign to determine the extent of Trump’s misconduct.
Regarding the illegal payments, “whether they are important
2018-12-11 00:33:13
President Donald Trump crosses the field after the first half of an NCAA college football game between the Army and the Navy, Saturday, December 8, 2018, in Philadelphia. (Photo by MATT ROURKE / AP)
WASHINGTON --- Top House Democrats have raised the prospect of impeachment or the real possibility of prison time for President Donald Trump if it’s proved that he directed illegal hush money payments to women, adding to legal pressure on the president over the Russia investigation and other scandals.
“There’s a very real prospect that one day Donald Trump leaves office, the Justice Department may indict him, that he may be the first president in quite some time to face the real prospect of jail time, “The bigger pardon question may come down the road as the next president has to determine whether to pardon Donald Trump.”
Rep. Jerry Nadler, the incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, described the details in prosecutors’ filings Friday in the case of Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, as evidence that Trump was “at the center of a massive fraud.”
“They would be impeachable offences,” Nadler said.
In the filings, prosecutors in New York for the first time the link Trump to a federal crime of illegal payments to buy the silence of two women during the 2016 campaign.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office also laid out previously undisclosed contact between Trump associates and Russian intermediaries and suggested the Kremlin aimed early on to influence Trump and his Republican campaign by playing to both his political and personal business interest.
Trump has denied wrongdoing and has compared the investigation to a “witch hunt.”
Nadler, Democrat-New York, said it was too early to say whether Congress would pursue impeachment proceedings based on illegal payment alone because lawmakers would need to weigh the gravity of the offense to justify “overturning” The 2016 election.
Nadler and other lawmakers said Sunday they would await additional details of Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference and possible coordination with the Trump campaign to determine the extent of Trump’s misconduct.
Regarding the illegal payments, “whether they are important
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