House Democrats find new angle for taking down Donald Trump

| 10:00 pm EST January 14, 2019
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Donald Trump is a Russian operative, a traitor, a money launderer, and a killer of immigrant children. Once he’s ousted from office, he’ll be put on trial for all of his crimes, and he’ll never spend another day outside of prison. But before any of that can happen, the House Democrats have to find a way to oust the guy first. Now they’ve found a new angle for doing precisely that.

Last week the House Oversight Committee announced that Michael Cohen will voluntarily testify in public about the crimes he committed with Donald Trump. This prompted Trump to resume his previous insistence that Cohen’s father-in-law is a criminal who should be investigated. Trump has offered no evidence to support this, of course, meaning it’s probably little more than yet another attempt at intimidation. That’s a problem for Trump, because Cohen is now a congressional witness, which gives him a new level of protection.

The leaders of the top three House committees have jointly issued a warning to Donald Trump that he can’t engage in witness intimidation against Michael Cohen or anyone else who is going to testify. It’s not that the warning is necessarily going to stop Trump from continuing with this behavior, as he thinks he’s above the law. But it is laying the legal groundwork to nail Trump for contempt of Congress if he keeps making threats against people like Cohen.

Keep in mind that while the Watergate break-in is what put Richard Nixon on a path to ouster, the articles of impeachment that finally forced him to resign were based around obstruction of justice. Now the House is preparing to expose Donald Trump as an out of control “president” who tries to intimidate witnesses against him by threatening their families. That’s a far easier crime for the average American to understand than Trump’s complicated, if 100% treasonous, relationship with Russia. It’s also what could lead to his ouster.