OUR MOB-BOSS PRESIDENT HAS NO RESPECT FOR THE LAW

…Trump the Mob-Boss

Trump’s real personality as a Mafia-Don is finally showing.

You know, it’s been interesting to realize that our current president is actually more in line with former New York City mob bosses, than with any former US presidents.  Even the editorial team at the New York Times has said: “The Trump-Russia investigation looks more like a mob case.”

According to the opinion writer from the Washington Post, Eugene Robinson:  “There’s a reason President Trump increasingly sounds like the mob boss in a cliche-ridden gangster film: That’s basically what he is…and he must know how such movies usually end.”

If you question that statement, just look at the comments Trump has made about his former “fixer” attorney, Michael Cohen, and his former Campaign Manager, Paul Manafort: “I feel very badly for Paul Manafort and his wonderful family. ‘Justice’ took a 12 year old tax case, among other things, applied tremendous pressure on him and, unlike Michael Cohen, he refused to ‘break’ — or make up stories in order to get a ‘deal.’ Such respect for a brave man!”

For decades, Trump has been running his business like a mafia Don, and guess who get the most upset about “flippers”?  You know, those gangster underlings that get caught and turn on their mob bosses.  Of course, it’s the mob bosses themselves that complain the most.  Just like Trump, who is now down on his former lawyer that “flipped on him”, while he has so much respect for Paul Manafort.  That’s because the “Boss” respects the guy that didn’t “flip”.

These statements in support of Manafort and against Cohen were made only one day after this former Campaign Chairman was convicted of felonies in a federal courthouse, while his former longtime lawyer pleaded guilty to felonies in another.

Many people are saying that because the “Boss” respects Manafort so much, Trump will probably give Manafort a presidential pardon.

But here’s why, if Manafort gets a pardon, Manafort could still go to prison, and with receiving a pardon, he could also get the president in serious trouble.

Here’s how it works:

·       Trump gives Manafort a pardon. 

·       When you receive a presidential pardon, you also lose your right to take the 5^th Amendment.

·       The special prosecutor can then require Manafort to take the stand and he must give this testimony under oath.

·       If he has information that is against the president, and he tells the truth, that gets Trump in trouble.  But if he lies on the stand, he will be arrested, and he must stand trial for lying under oath, and that sentence could end up being longer than the sentence that he would have received, if he didn’t get a pardon.

·       It’s a classic “Catch 22” situation.

As for more examples of Trump as a mafia Don, Trump recently referred to John Dean,as a “RAT”, just as a mob boss would have done. 

Dean was the White House counsel whose truth-telling was instrumental in President Richard Nixon’s resignation.  (In all the gangster movies, the mob boss always call the guys that squeal on them, “RATS”.)  As expected, during the Trump / Fox News interview, Trump complained at length about defendants who “flip” and inform on higher-ups in exchange for leniency at sentencing: “This whole thing about flipping, they call it, I know all about flipping. For 30, 40 years I have been watching flippers. Everything’s wonderful and then they get 10 years in jail and they flip on whoever the next highest one is, or as high as you can go. It almost ought to be outlawed.”

So, just as every mob boss would want, Trump went on live TV and proclaimed that people that get caught and then testify against other law breakers, Trump thinks that should be against the law…..?

Amazing, but true!

The Post’s Robinson made the following comment about our mob president:

“Those were not the words of some two-bit hoodlum who feels the law closing in. They are the words of the president of the United States, who apparently feels the law closing in.

Trump speaks as though the Trump Organization, the Trump campaign and the Trump administration were one long continuing criminal enterprise. The man charged with faithfully executing the nation’s laws paints his own Justice Department as a villain and celebrates criminals who stoically go to prison rather than inform on higher-ups. Nixon talked that way in private, among friends and co-conspirators; Trump just blurts it out. He makes no bones about valuing personal loyalty over respect for the law.”

And Mr. Robinson is not alone.  The opinion writer Jennifer Rubin has also said: “The Mueller investigation is looking more and more like a mafia case.”

The more you look into just Paul Manafort’s situation, that case alone resembles a mob case, and he could have serious information that could be directed at Donald Trump.

Manafort, as Trump’s Campaign Manager, and who has dealt extensively with Russians and Ukrainians, might have much to tell about former contacts between the campaign and the Russians.  He has been silent thus far, but he was convicted in federal court on eight counts of bank and tax fraud.  He could easily receive what amounts to a life sentence for a 69-year-old man.

In addition, Manafort now faces a second trial, this time in federal court in DC, on conspiracy and other charges stemming from the influence-peddling work he did for Russia-backed politicians in the Ukraine.  And there is more documentation to support this trial than there was in the first trial.  The approaching trial could produce even more Manafort jail time.  It will definitely generate another crushing pile of legal bills for a man whose finances were shown to be exhausted.

After the verdict was read, a statement from Manafort’s defense team said nothing about possible appeals or the looming court proceedings. Instead, it said Manafort was examining his options.

It is obvious that Trump knows he is in trouble.  Even the latest TIME magazine cover illustration shows Trump in the oval office that is full of water up to Trump’s neck.  The caption just says: “In Deep!”

This could explain why Trump was up at 1 AM the day after the trial and Cohen’s guilty pleas, angrily tweeting: “NO COLLUSION — RIGGED WITCH HUNT!” all in Caps.

On top of this, during his Fox interview, Trump again made serious  statements against his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions.  Sessions finally responded declaring that the Justice Department “will not be improperly influenced by political considerations.” He must understand by now that Trump doesn’t care about justice. The president only wants protection from “his” Justice Department.

Donald Trump is so unqualified to be the President of the United States, and now he has definitively shown that he has no respect for our laws.

So sad.

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