Con Man Or President?

first the nation is awaiting a potential

criminal indictment of former president

Donald Trump since he entered that

building he was officially under arrest

quiet quiet it's a fight against his

rejection of Truth Trump for his part

denies any wrong to it in April 2023

former president Donald Trump was

arrested for 34 felonies involving his

hush money payments to adult film star

Stormy Daniels he earned the nickname

Teflon Don because in the past none of

his alleged crimes and Scandals seemed

to stick to him now however he will

potentially face the consequences for

his role in instigating the January 6th

Riot on the capitol hiding top secret

documents in his home and trying to

convince a Georgia election official to

find votes for him that didn't exist

April 2023 saw a first in U.S history

the indictment of a former president

after being twice impeached while in

office another record Donald Trump was

indicted on 34 felonies involving his

hush money payment to adult film star

Stormy Daniels these aren't new

accusations though the alleged crimes

took place in 2016 shortly before

election day Trump went on to defeat

Hillary Clinton in the election but

before that he needed to tie up some

political Loose Ends he had an alleged

affair with Daniels in 2006 and wanted

to make sure it wasn't revealed as an

11th Hour Scandal potentially costing

him votes so he had his lawyer slash

fixer Michael Cohen paid Daniels 130

thousand dollars to make sure she didn't

talk about their Affair oddly enough

there's literally nothing illegal about

paying off someone to keep them quiet

the potential crimes came after this

hush money payment because when they had

to account for that money it was logged

as a legal fees payment to Cohen and

that's where the felonies start to apply

you aren't allowed to falsify business

records like that which is a bit of a

catch-22 when it comes to hush money if

you're trying to secretly pay someone

off for their silence you can't exactly

log it into your records as adult film

star keep quiet about affair right

according to the D.A Prosecuting the

case Alvin Bragg the act of concealing

with the payment was really for was

unlawful because it constituted hiding

damaging information about a

presidential candidate before and after

an election now jail time would

potentially be more likely when it comes

to things like stealing nuclear secrets

one of President Trump's final scandals

as he left office was taking a bunch of

top secret documents and storing them in

his Mar-A-Lago home and according to the

presidential records act a president is

not allowed to keep presidential records

and they have to turn them into the

National Archives president Trump

actually signed a law in 2018 that

increased the penalty from one year in

prison to five years for anyone who

removes and keeps classified

governmental information so it's

actually kind of wild that the first

person we know of who might have

actually committed this crime was the

man who signed the law it goes without

saying that if top secret documents fell

into the hands of enemy countries it

would be incredibly damaging and keeping

them in a random room in your home where

people can Mill about is playing pretty

fast and loose with the safety of this

sensitive info after realizing there was

a fair amount missing from the archives

the National Archives and Records

Administration or Nara reached out to

Trump's people and asked for them to

turn anything over that they had kept

that resulted in a return of 184

documents some of which were in the

secret and top secret classifications at

first it seemed like that would be the

end of it but it turns out Trump was in

possession of even more boxes and he or

his people at least allegedly lied about

still having them so the FBI and doj got

involved got a warrant and raided

Mar-A-Lago to retrieve the missing boxes

in all more than thirteen thousand

documents were found including some

nuclear info and other super sensitive

National Security documents and since

then two more classified docs have been

found at other trump-based locations you

know it's definitely not scandalous

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saying another trump-based location if

you will is the state of Georgia where

president Trump is being investigated

for potentially trying to fix the

presidential election of 2020. a special

grand jury was convened in January of

2023 and while we don't know the

decisions they came to the Four Women of

the jury admitted that several people

were going to be indicted it's not clear

yet whether that'll include president

Trump but we know there have been

numerous leaked phone calls emails and

texts all of which seem to point to

Trump basically asking the governor of

Georgia and the election officials there

to help him overturn the results of the

peach State's 2020 election totals he's

on tape asking Georgia's Secretary of

State Brad raffensberger to quote find

just the right number of votes for him

to turn Georgia into a trump victory of

course since the tallies were certified

and accurate finding votes would have

meant illegally altering the numbers

we'll see if president Trump and others

from his team will end up facing legal

repercussions for this particular

Scandal another scandal from right

around that time involves the riots and

storming of the U.S Capitol building on

January 6th since then almost a thousand

people have been arrested for

participating and more than 500 have

been found guilty four people died on

the day and 140 officers were injured

and five officers died in the aftermath

of the riot four of them by Suicide and

while President Trump's connection to

the riots is potentially arguable it's

not clear whether or not he'll be

convicted or even charged with crimes

related to them the January 6th report

seemed to outline a clear pattern of

election denial attempts to overturn it

and consistently lying about the

election being stolen and even in his

speech down the street on January 6th

Trump did call for people to head to the

Capitol Building afterwards but at the

same time in a classic Trump way he

didn't overtly say for them to attack

and storm it people familiar with Trump

over the years have often pointed out

his tendency to make ambiguous requests

rather than demands so that makes it

harder to tie a direct link to him and

the actions of others such as the riots

on January 6th but as more people are

being called to testify in the ongoing

investigation such as former vice

president Mike Pence it's possible we

could be looking at charges against

Trump but at this point it's anyone's

guess one Scandal we don't have to make

guesses about is the Trump

organization's guilty charge in their

recent tax Scandal the business was

convicted on 17 counts of tax fraud and

some other related crimes and will be

forced to pay a fine of up to 1.62

million dollars Trump didn't get

directly charged for these tax evasions

though his name was consistently brought

up as being part of their illegal

activities but since you can't charge a

company with the same types of crimes as

a person nor put it in jail that will

likely be the end of this particular

Scandal of course one of the biggest

scandals of the Trump presidency was his

alleged relationship with Russia the

president made it pretty clear he

considered Vladimir Putin an ally even

in the face of mounting evidence that

that might not be the best move Ukraine

Invasion but long before that there were

allegations that the Trump campaign had

colluded with the Russian government to

try to influence the 2016 election and

that the Trump campaign had obstructed

Justice when the Government tried to

look into those charges the whole

Scandal was an incredibly polarizing one

with Trump allies feeling it was a Witch

Hunt due to partisan politics and Trump

foes convinced he and his campaign had

acted illegally and as you probably

recall ex-fbi had Robert Mueller was

brought in as special counsel to

investigate all of it the final results

were pretty meh for both sides the

report didn't find the campaign actively

sought out Russian help but that they

were aware the Russians were doing it

like crazy and it also didn't exonerate

Trump in the campaign of obstructing

justice but when Mueller was given

instructions that he basically wasn't

allowed to indict a sitting president he

had to say Trump kinda did obstruct

justice but that Congress would need to

decide what to do with that information

either way I think we can all agree

Robert Mueller has one of the most

impressively square jaws of all time

though right we can also agree that

President Trump was nothing if not a

unique holder of the office he was

impeached twice for starters that was an

American first the second time had to do

with the January 6th riots which I

talked about earlier the first time was

in 2019 and it involved Ukraine and

their president the now Super Famous

Vladimir zielinsky at the time most

Americans weren't really aware of him

but president Trump certainly was when

he reportedly withheld an arms package

we had already promised Ukraine because

he first wanted zelenski to help him out

in bashing his potential presidential

rival in the upcoming election Joe Biden

he allegedly tried to get zelinski to

help them investigate Joe and Hunter

Biden and to publicly acknowledge it was

a classic quid pro quo which suddenly

became everyone's favorite Latin phrase

for like a month mine is still in vino

veritas which means in wine there is

truth but that's for another video Trump

ended up getting impeached for two

counts because of this one count of

abusive power and one of obstruction of

justice of course while his double

impeachment made history some of the

Trump scandals were not too dissimilar

to other world leaders and U.S

presidents and by that I'm referring to

sex scandals that's certainly a topic

we've heard a lot about over the years

though perhaps the sheer number of women

who have credibly accused Trump of

sexual inappropriateness ranging from

things like assault and worse to

non-consensual groping and kissing is

what stands out regardless there have

been at least 25 women who have brought

various charges against the former

president he also got into hot water in

the court of public opinion when it came

to light that he used to go into the

dressing rooms of the Miss Universe

competitions which he owned Trump at one

point admitted in interview with Howard

Stern that he'd get away with walking

into the dressing rooms when the women

were naked because he owned the

competition perhaps not an illegal move

but a skeevy one to be sure okay all

this talk of scandals has me exhausted

so I think I've earned a nap then

probably some tacos because that's my

happy place have some thoughts about

presidential scandals pop them in the

comments section but keep it kind and

constructive we have gentle Hearts over

here you guys