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White House said today that lawyers directed moving documents to highly secure system.
Trump has a history of using his lawyers to commit crimes for him—on the incorrect presumption they can't testify against him. He did it again here: shaking down a foreign power using his lawyer as a criminal instrument.
This Ukraine incident, and it consists of more than just his phone call, would be described—were it anyone but this president—as a crime spree: extortion, bribery, witness tampering, conspiracy, illegal solicitation of foreign campaign donations, obstruction of justice, Logan Act crimes and more. It's a historic scandal.
But the part that's truly crazy, and I know astonishes criminal lawyers the nation over, is that all of the principals have either confessed to the crimes, confessed to intent to commit the crimes, or accused other people of the same conduct and called the conduct criminal.
If you think Clinton committed a crime by hiring a law firm that hired a nonpartisan research firm that hired an independent contractor to conduct routine opposition research, you also think presidents can't extort foreign leaders for personal gain. Not f*cking rocket science.
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