Natasha Bertrand: ‘More Immediate Criminal Jeopardy’ for Trump Is With Cohen and the SDNY

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BERTRAND: “Not even the tmp campaign thought they would win, they were using it as a platform for trump. He did not think he was going to win on election night as shocked as everyone else, according to all of the reporting we have seen, but I think Michael Cohen is an opporistic person. He lost the president’s support after he was raided, and he is talking to whoever will. If the Mueller report is brief and provides the attorney general, if it is lengthy, it is this kind of thing, the business practices that will come under scrutiny by investigators under the southern district of new York and that is the kind of investigation that Michael Cohen can help with. He may be helping with the Russian aspect of it, but it is my understanding that he has not been as helpful on that has he has been to prosecutors in the southern district and the new York state attorney general that is investigating the trump foundation, for example. But I think this is where the more immediate criminal jeopardy for the president may lie even if Mueller does not find evidence of a conspiracy that can be charged as such between the Trump campaign and Russia. When we look at what Michael Cohen will do, we know it will not be Russia related, but there is a lot of people’s eyes, especially in Congress, when they’re considering whether or not to watch impeachment proceedings, for what the president has been doing for the last 30 years of his business career and especially the last ten when Russia has really come under skrooutny.”