Abbreviated pundit roundup: From bad to worse for Donald Trump
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Fresh off the heels of his personal lawyer being sentences to prison and implicating him in campaign finance crimes comes news that Trump’s inauguration committee is reportedly under criminal investigation. We begin today’s roundup with Michelle GoldbergAbbreviated pundit roundup: From bad to worse for Donald Trump
Fresh off the heels of his personal lawyer being sentences to prison and implicating him in campaign finance crimes comes news that Trump’s inauguration committee is reportedly under criminal investigation. We begin today’s roundup with Michelle Goldberg’s take at The New York Times on the year justice began catching up with Trumpworld: [2018] was a year of justice and accountability for at least some of those who foisted this administration on the country. An awful menagerie of lowlifes was swept into power by Trump’s victory two years ago. In 2018, at least some of them started to fall back out again. [...] when you consider the events of the last 12 months together, it becomes clear how relentlessly justice has ground forward, and how much Trump and his flunkies have lost. As I was writing this, news broke that federal prosecutors have started a criminal investigation into Trump’s inaugural committee, adding to inquiries into his business, foundation, campaign and presidency. America is still in a perilous place, and even a weakened Trump can torment migrants, pack the courts, wreck the environment and suck up to tyrants. Nevertheless, this is the first year since 2015, when Trump rode down that cursed escalator to launch his bid for office, that is ending more hopefully than it began. Eugene Robinson at The Washington Post explains how Trump’s lies may be catching up to him: Now the law is beginning to squeeze him from all directions. [...] The bottom line is that two witnesses, Cohen and AMI, independently now implicate the president of the United States in the commission of two felonies. The campaign finance case is being brought by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York. Back in Washington, meanwhile, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has been busy, as well. [...] Trump’s longtime accountant, Allen Weisselberg, has turned state’s evidence. He may be the Virgil who guides federal, state and local prosecutors through a Trumpian inferno of shell companies and opaque transactions. The outlines of Trump’s fate begin to emerge. Read more