re: Alan Dershowitz: Cohen 'Pleading Guilty to a Crime that Doesn't Exist'

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Does anyone else find it a bit odd that Cohen chose Lanny Davis for legal counsel?

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The Cohen thing is a Dem op therefore a Long time Clinton operative is running Cohen.

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Dershowitz continued, “Even if it’s true that President Trump contributed $280,000 for the explicit purpose of paying hush money in order to prevent the public from knowing that he had these alleged affairs with these two women, that would simply not be a crime. It might be a political sin, but it would not be a crime.”

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All you need to know.

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What Cohen pleaded guilty to may not even be a crime, the part about the election campaign laws

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so someone with some legal expertise explain this to me. What is the recourse to someone pleading guilty to a crime that isn't a crime? This seems like a really bad legal precedent no matter what your political leanings.

Mark levin has been talking about this for months. A former chairman of the FEC has been on his show twice and he was very adamant that even if the allegations were true there would be no campaign finance violation. Not to mention that campaign finance violations aren’t even that big of a deal.

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so someone with some legal expertise explain this to me. What is the recourse to someone pleading guilty to a crime that isn't a crime? This seems like a really bad legal precedent no matter what your political leanings.

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It’s not a legal precedent whatsoever.

I agree with Professor Dershowitz.

However, it’s easy to say this when you are not the one that is facing the consequences of being found guilty and the fincancial ruin in mounting a defense to what the professor considers a non chargeable crime.

Easier said than done Professor

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I'm guessing Cohen had far greater worries than this.

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Oh yes.
He had 65yrs worth of financial accusations to deal with.

Had he not copped to a nonexistent crime allowing Trump to be labeled an unindicted co-conspirator to the same nonexistent crime, there would have been no plea deal. Inventing that angle was probably Lanny Davis's contribution.

The plea allows mission creep vis-a-vis Pecker, and the Trump Foundation CFO. Those folks were quickly granted immunity in hopes either will open up other doors toward gaining access to Trump's Tax Records.

Of course this approach is exactly opposite to Hillary's investigation where immunity was granted willy-nilly to prevent anyone getting anywhere near a HRC indictment.

The Cohen plea was immediately used as an excuse to break into the Trump Foundation via an immunity deal. If they can find ANY hint of a smidgen of alleged wrong-doing there, they'll do everything possible to lever it as an excuse to get to Trump's Personal Tax Records.

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Not to mention that campaign finance violations aren’t even that big of a deal.

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The threat is not the bullshite campaign finance accusation. The threat is using the bullshite plea to a bullshite nonexistent crime charge to expand the investigation toward its hyperpartisan goal of gaining access to Trump's Tax Records.

There is virtually no concern in direct claims of campaign finance violations here. The concern is those claims allow prosecutors to continue to expand the probe.

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Those folks were quickly granted immunity in hopes either will open up other doors toward gaining access to Trump's Tax Records. [

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Is there any doubt this is where Mueller is headed?

Alan Dershowitz is either losing it or he really was in on those underage sex parties with Trump and Epstein.

Campaign violations charged against Cohen include: 52 U.S.C. 30116(a)(7); 30116(a)(1)(A); 30109(d)(1)(A); 30118(a); and 18 U.S.C.2(b).

Those are crimes that most definitely exist.