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*WSJ: Federal prosecutors granted immunity to David Pecker, CEO of company that publishes National Enquirer, in Cohen investigation

*WSJ: Pecker met with prosecutors to describe involvement of Cohen, Trump in hush-money deals to women ahead of 2016 election

*WSJ: Pecker is a longtime friend of Cohen, Trump

*WSJ: Prosecutors indicate Dylan Howard, chief content officer of National Enquirer parent, also won’t be charged in criminal investigation of Cohen


 
Put mike on suicide watch

https://davidharrisjr.com/politics/bombshell-lanny-davis-says-cnn-all-wrong-client-has-no-knowledge-of-any-trump-wrongdoing/
 




*WSJ: Federal prosecutors granted immunity to David Pecker, CEO of company that publishes National Enquirer, in Cohen investigation

*WSJ: Pecker met with prosecutors to describe involvement of Cohen, Trump in hush-money deals to women ahead of 2016 election

*WSJ: Pecker is a longtime friend of Cohen, Trump

*WSJ: Prosecutors indicate Dylan Howard, chief content officer of National Enquirer parent, also won’t be charged in criminal investigation of Cohen




And now Trump’s most powerful media ally next to Fox News has broken with him. According to two sources briefed on the Cohen investigation, prosecutors granted immunity to David Pecker, chairman of The National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc., and A.M.I.’s chief content officer, Dylan Howard, so they would describe Trump’s involvement in Cohen’s payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal during the 2016 campaign. The Wall Street Journal first reportedPecker’s cooperation on Wednesday night. (Pecker and Howard did not respond to multiple requests for comment. A spokesperson for the Southern District of New York declined to comment.)

Pecker’s apparent decision to corroborate Cohen’s account, and implicate Trump in a federal crime, is another vivid example of how isolated Trump is becoming as the walls close in and his former friends look for ways out. “Holy shit, I thought Pecker would be the last one to turn,” a Trump friend told me when I brought up the news. Trump and Pecker have been close for years. According to the Trump friend, Pecker regularly flew on Trump’s plane from New York to Florida. In July 2013, Trump tweeted that Pecker should become C.E.O. of Time magazine. “He’d make it exciting and win awards!”
 


Legal experts agree that meddling in the electoral college (an actual rigged election) is different from conspiring with a foreign power or illegally paying hush money:

But both interfere with the democratic process, said Laurence H. Tribe, a law professor at Harvard, the other author of “To End a Presidency” and a frequent critic of Mr. Trump.

“The felonies of which Cohen, in statements that were self-incriminating and thus particularly trustworthy, accused his former client, the president, didn’t literally involve bribery,” he said, referring to Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former lawyer, “but certainly involved criminal conduct designed to reduce the risk that disclosure of his extramarital affairs and dalliances on the eve of the election would cost him the votes he ended up needing in places like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.”

The short answer is that a conscientious House member who concluded that Trump intentionally violated the law in winning the presidency would certainly be acting in accordance with the framers’ design if he voted to impeach. A member of the Senate would likewise fulfill his constitutional obligation by voting to convict.

We conclude therefore that right now, if lawmakers believe Cohen’s assertion that Trump directed him to violate the law in order to pay off two alleged paramours, they could well conclude that Trump should be impeached. At the very least, there are grounds to begin the discussion and the congressional fact-finding process.
 


The emphases here are mine. To conservatives reading this column, ask yourselves the following questions:

If breaking the law (by lying under oath) to conceal an affair was impeachable, why is breaking the law (by violating campaign-finance laws) to conceal an affair not impeachable?

If “cheating the electoral system” (by means of a burglary) was impeachable, why is cheating the electoral system (by means of illicit hush money) not impeachable?

If cheating “our institutions” (by means of an “assault” in “every way” on the legal system) is impeachable, why is cheating those institutions (by means of nonstop presidential mendacity and relentless attacks on the Justice Department and the F.B.I.) not impeachable?

Pragmatists will rejoin that there’s no sense in advocating impeachment when the G.O.P. controls Congress. I’m sorry that so many congressional Republicans have lost their sense of moral principle and institutional self-respect, but that’s a reason to seek Democratic victories in the fall. The Constitution matters more than a tax cut. What the Constitution demands is the impeachment and removal from office of this lawless president.
 


Casting a lifeline to the sinking coal industry and its shrinking work force, the Trump administration announced on Tuesday a plan to weaken regulations of coal-fired power plants that President Barack Obama had put in place as part of an effort to reduce America’s emissions of planet-warming gases. The plan is wrongheaded on every level.

It favors an old, dirty fuel and does nothing to accelerate the push toward the cleaner, renewable fuels on whose development the world is depending for real progress against global warming. It offers another false promise to the coal miners, whose industry is threatened not by some sinister “war on coal,” as President Trump would have it, but by market forces, including plentiful supplies of cleaner natural gas. And it is another sign — the latest of many — that the president has no remorse for abdicating the leadership America once claimed in the struggle against climate change.

For good measure, the proposal would also weaken provisions in the clean air laws designed to regulate pollutants like smog and soot and, in so doing, cause as many as 1,400 additional premature deaths annually by 2030, as well as many thousands of respiratory infections because of increases in fine particulate matter linked to heart and lung disease.
 
Bullshit. Complete Bullshit. The world will be using coal as long as its available. The half black thing tried to eliminate it for political reasons only.


Casting a lifeline to the sinking coal industry and its shrinking work force, the Trump administration announced on Tuesday a plan to weaken regulations of coal-fired power plants that President Barack Obama had put in place as part of an effort to reduce America’s emissions of planet-warming gases. The plan is wrongheaded on every level.

It favors an old, dirty fuel and does nothing to accelerate the push toward the cleaner, renewable fuels on whose development the world is depending for real progress against global warming. It offers another false promise to the coal miners, whose industry is threatened not by some sinister “war on coal,” as President Trump would have it, but by market forces, including plentiful supplies of cleaner natural gas. And it is another sign — the latest of many — that the president has no remorse for abdicating the leadership America once claimed in the struggle against climate change.

For good measure, the proposal would also weaken provisions in the clean air laws designed to regulate pollutants like smog and soot and, in so doing, cause as many as 1,400 additional premature deaths annually by 2030, as well as many thousands of respiratory infections because of increases in fine particulate matter linked to heart and lung disease.
 
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