I will so like to see him in impeached and in jail not just because of what he has done but it will be a good message for any future presidents that think they can just do what they want to America because they think they are untouchable.
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Trump was at August 2015 meeting about hush money payments, source says. Donald Trump attended an August 2015 meeting that federal prosecutors believe was central to a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws to help Trump win the presidency, according to a source familiar with the matter.
According to court filings, Trump was joined by Michael Cohen, who was his attorney at the time, and David Pecker, the chairman of American Media Inc., parent company of the National Enquirer.
During the meeting, the group discussed a plan to shield Trump from potentially damaging stories. Prosecutors say this amounted to illegal donations to Trump's campaign. Ref. CNN.
Could a Trump impeachment backfire? Lessons learned from Bill Clinton's saga, 20 years later. Democrats who are contemplating impeaching President Donald Trump after they take control of the House of Representatives next month are considering a cautionary tale: what happened the last time a president was impeached. President Bill Clinton survived, but his top accuser, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, didn't, and it was the Republican Party that lost seats in the next election. Ref. USAToday.
'I know Putin, and I’ll tell you what: We get along with Putin.' How a drumbeat of 2018 revelations is shadowing Trump. Donald Trump spoke warmly of his relationship with Vladimir Putin at a 2015 gathering in Las Vegas - comments flatly at odds with his later public denials of any ties to the Russian president. Trump's response to a question posed by Russian gun-rights activist Maria Butina was one of many episodes detailed in disclosures during 2018 in ongoing federal probes. USA TODAY takes a look at a series of year-end developments and what they could mean. Source 5x.