President Donald Trump pauses while speaking with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in the Cabinet Room at the White House, Monday, Aug. 27, 2018. | AP Photo/Alex Brandon Law And Order After last week’s dramatic events, many on the left assume the president is in legal peril. Here’s why they’re wrong. By ERIC COLUMBUS August 27, 2018 After a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week, are the walls starting to close in on Donald Trump? Don’t be so sure—despite the current New Yorker magazine cover showing baying hounds chasing a terrified president, the dogs aren’t much closer to catching him than when last week began. As a new week dawns, the key questions remain political, not legal. Due to Justice Department precedents, a sitting president won’t face a criminal trial while in office. So did last week’s developments boost the chances for removal via the impeachment process? Probably not. Story Continued Below Let’s start with longtime Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to, among other things, facilitating hush money payments to Trump’s mistresses in violation of campaign finance laws. A Republican Party that has tolerated — and often cheered — countless Trump horrors won’t dump him for essentially failing to report a campaign expenditure. Trump could have legally paid off Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal as long as he had paid them himself and his campaign reported the payments — with a description as bland as “litigation settlement” or “legal services.” In fact, the October 27, 2016, Daniels payment need not have been reported until after Election Day under Federal Election Commission rules. Coupled with the failed 2012 prosecution of former presidential candidate John Edwards, who similarly used campaign funds to pay off a mistress, and the fact that courts have held that a campaign finance violation can constitute a crime only if the violator knew that he was acting illegally, the GOP will likely give Trum
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