The political climate is changing. After Friday, temperatures are rising higher and the leading denier, of course, is Donald Trump, who after last week’s bombshells could only turn to social media.
“Totally clears the President. Thank you.” Tweeted @realDonaldTrump.
But the release last Friday of those federal prosecutor’s memos about President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, does anything but clear the president. For the first time the memos link Trump to real criminality, the organizing of hush payments to two female companions so as not to hurt his presidential campaign, a violation of campaign finance laws.
One memo by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York says Cohen “acted in coordination and at the direction of Individual 1”.
Individual 1? It was an obvious reference to Trump.
If your jaw didn’t drop at the news, then maybe it’s because we’ve gotten used to bombshells during the Trump era. But let me assure you, it is not an everyday thing to see the president of the United States, the leader of the free world, implicated in an illegal scheme.
A law-breaking president and commander- in-chief isn’t an example of an innovative positive disruption in governance.
