Well, that was certainly a news cycle to remember.
Many others have written about what this might mean for Trump. Perhaps more important is what this might mean for the GOP. If we continue to have a steady drumbeat of admitted and convicted law breaking from now to November...that could be enough to tip several otherwise close Congressional races from Red to Blue. I'm talking about seats like Mississippi or Nebraska Senate races.
It's also important to note what this shows about Robert Mueller. He's been the sphinx at the middle of this riddle. I can't recall a more airtight operation. He is methodical, calm and steady in ways that Trump and his team simply are incapable of being. Mueller, for instance, almost certainly has Trump's tax returns. He almost certainly has hard evidence of Trump's tax evasion and money laundering in hand, right now. He has all of Michael Cohen's cooperative testimony, outlining Trump's violation of campaign finance law. I would guess that he has significant information from Gates about conspiratorial actions taken with Russia.
As I wrote yesterday (before all of this broke), Trump's Deplorables don't care. Their reaction to the news was: "collusion wasn't proven, not a crime." Cohen directly implicated Trump in a crime, and likely has evidence to prove it. It won't matter. "Everyone pays off their porn star mistresses before elections."
The Deplorables aren't the point. They have never been the point. The point is all the other people who may have voted for Trump because they hated Hillary or because they were life-long Republicans. Will they vote? And will they vote to continue to enable the criminal enterprise that is the modern GOP?
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