President Donald Trump is insisting that there’s “no smoking gun” to charge him with committing federal crimes, but as has been the case for months, Kellyanne Conway’s husband George Conway was there to foil his wishful tantrum.
On Monday, Trump actually blamed his former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen for the two campaign finance felonies he directed him to commit and claimed prosecutors have no “smoking gun” evidence to prove collusion or campaign finance crimes.
“Democrats can’t find a Smocking Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey’s testimony. No Smocking Gun…No Collusion.” @FoxNews That’s because there was NO COLLUSION. So now the Dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution,…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 10, 2018
….which it was not (but even if it was, it is only a CIVIL CASE, like Obama’s – but it was done correctly by a lawyer and there would not even be a fine. Lawyer’s liability if he made a mistake, not me). Cohen just trying to get his sentence reduced. WITCH HUNT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 10, 2018
But George Conway hit Trump with a heavy dose of reality in response.
No, the criminal campaign-finance violations were found by professional line prosecutors in a Republican-controlled United States Department of Justice. It looks like a pretty good case. Kudos to them. https://t.co/PrtXErjcVI
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) December 10, 2018
National security expert Sam Vinograd agreed with Conway, and she doesn’t even have a law degree.
While I don’t have a law degree, the last time I checked a crime is a crime. I don’t think the 31 flavors of severity argument is a good look for those supposedly charged with upholding democratic freedoms.
— Sam Vinograd (@sam_vinograd) December 10, 2018
Former federal prosecutors and legal experts followed Conway’s lead and laughed at Trump ridiculous and pathetic defense.
This is a smocking good defense. I’s sure SDNY will now reconsider everything. https://t.co/JOI0lHh5Ka
— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) December 10, 2018
This tweet is itself a SMOKING GUN: Saying it was wrong to call his payments a “campaign contribution” implies he’s known all along that he wanted to make a campaign “expenditure” while hiding it from voters by funneling it off the books by contributing to a shell company https://t.co/yMkdBJoRDa
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 10, 2018
All those years as a prosecutor and I was looking for the smoking gun not the smocking gun! ?♀️ (And BTW they’ve got several actually). @realDonaldTrump
— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) December 10, 2018
Once again, George Conway schools Trump, and it’s probably time for Kellyanne Conway to jump ship while she still can.
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