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Did Trump admit he has committed crimes?

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1) We didn’t do it!

2) Well, maybe we did it!

3) Well, everybody does it!

4) OK, we did it, but it wasn’t illegal!

5) Ok, it was illegal, whatcha gonna do?
 
Trump: My Crimes Can’t Be Investigated While I’m President | Vanity Fair
I do not know if anyone else has posted about this, but it would seem that Trump has admitted he committed crimes but says he can not be investigated while in office. Is this another example of doing illegal stuff out in the open and then saying it can not be illegal as I did it out in the open?

In response to your thread title, the answer is I don't know, but from a simple reading of the article, it does not seem so.

I read through the entire citation and did not see a single quote attributed to Mr. Trump at all, much less one where he states "My crimes can't be investigated while I'm President." Not even a link to such a quote source.

Clearly he did not admit to having committed any crimes, nor is there anything in the article which shows he even alluded to having done so.

Did I miss something, or is this (as it clearly seems from a reading) just another misleading headline based on a writer's interpretation of what Trump's legal team is doing?
 
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In response to your thread title, the answer is I don't know, but from a simple reading of the article, it does not seem so.

I read through the entire citation and did not see a single quote attributed to Mr. Trump at all, much less one where he states "My crimes can't be investigated while I'm President." Not even a link to such a quote source.

Did I miss something, or is this (as it clearly seems from a reading) just another misleading headline based on a writer's interpretation of what Trump's legal team is doing?

In other words, more leftist bull****.
 
In response to your thread title, the answer is I don't know, but from a simple reading of the article, it does not seem so.

I read through the entire citation and did not see a single quote attributed to Mr. Trump at all, much less one where he states "My crimes can't be investigated while I'm President." Not even a link to such a quote source.

Did I miss something, or is this (as it clearly seems from a reading) just another misleading headline based on a writer's interpretation of what Trump's legal team is doing?

From Trump’s lips:

Speaking to a crowd of young conservatives at a Turning Point USA conference in the nation's capital, Trump on Tuesday said, "Then I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president."



Trump falsely says Constitution gives him unlimited power as president - Business Insider
 
1) We didn’t do it!

2) Well, maybe we did it!

3) Well, everybody does it!

4) OK, we did it, but it wasn’t illegal!

5) Ok, it was illegal, whatcha gonna do?

This.
 
In response to your thread title, the answer is I don't know, but from a simple reading of the article, it does not seem so.

I read through the entire citation and did not see a single quote attributed to Mr. Trump at all, much less one where he states "My crimes can't be investigated while I'm President." Not even a link to such a quote source.

Clearly he did not admit to having committed any crimes, nor is there anything in the article which shows he even alluded to having done so.

Did I miss something, or is this (as it clearly seems from a reading) just another misleading headline based on a writer's interpretation of what Trump's legal team is doing?

Lulz. He just admitted to having done so this morning on TV.

I'll give you a couple of minutes so you can come up with some nonsensical rationalization of his criminality.
 
From Trump’s lips:

Speaking to a crowd of young conservatives at a Turning Point USA conference in the nation's capital, Trump on Tuesday said, "Then I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president."



Trump falsely says Constitution gives him unlimited power as president - Business Insider

Red herring. Not at ALL an admission he has committed any crime.

Try again. :coffeepap:

Lulz. He just admitted to having done so this morning on TV.

I'll give you a couple of minutes so you can come up with some nonsensical rationalization of his criminality.

Citation please, otherwise it is just your naked word...meaning no proof at all. :coffeepap:
 
Citation please, otherwise it is just your naked word...meaning no proof at all.

It really doesn't bother you that Trump was squeezing a foreign president for campaign dirt on Biden does it?
 
Thread title: Did Trump admit he has committed crimes?

He may or may not have committed a crime and admitted to it in the prosecutorial sense in strong arming the Ukrainian President. Easily could qualify as "crimes and misdemeanors" in the sense of Impeachment and Removal.

The DNI has without question committed a crime in blocking the IG from reporting to Congress. If the DNI was "encouraged" in the committing of that crime then whomever encouraged the DNI has also committed a crime. That means you Bill Barr.

Lets face it, it hardly matters in Trump's case. If he explicitly offered a quid pro quo that would be problematic for him. If there implicitly was a quid pro quo, then less problematic for Trump as it would be harder to prove. Trump would do exactly as he is doing in any case...deny it, then own it, then tell us there was nothing wrong with having done it.

Haven't we seen this charade enough in the recent past?
 
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The problem with your citation is, interpretation.

Trump did think that election "dirt" was fair game, while contributions of money or other "things of value" would not be.

But the citation used cites this code in support:

§30121. Contributions and donations by foreign nationals
(a) Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for-
(1) a foreign national, directly or indirectly, to make-
(A) a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State, or local election;...
[USC02] 52 USC 30121: Contributions and donations by foreign nationals

It then asserts that "other thing of value" would apply to simple information ("dirt"). However, there does not appear (to me at least) any such definition, which is why the title of the article says "what might well be a crime."

Other things of value typically refers to donations of material aid in lieu of direct cash donations, contributing things like cars, tickets, paid advertising, paid venues, etc..

Simple information, on the other hand, is hard to quantify in value. Unless of course, the source demands payment of some amount of money in exchange.

Note, your article did not say IS a crime. They go on to explain how hiring Fusion GPS as a "go-between" to seek such information does not appear to be a crime, as if using a "cut-out" would change the fact that the dirt was sourced from a foreign agency.

So Trump's "musings" are another red herring, and prove NOTHING except more innuendo which is par for the course when it comes to the "resistance." :coffeepap:
 
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