Coming Clean, Doing Time In Trumpland

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S former campaign manager and former attorney, the one who once said he'd take a bullet for Donald J. Trump, are now convicted felons, joining Trump's former national security adviser, former assistant campaign director, et al, on the black and white stripe brigade. To paraphrase Trump supporters: "lock 'em up!" The president's next move will probably be to claim that he never heard of any of these people, and that if he did, he never knew them well, and if he knew them well, they did not work for him long, and if they worked for him long, they didn't commit crimes, but if they did commit crimes, they were not serious crimes...the old Rudy Giuliani approach. he may even include Stormi Daniels in the never heard of list, but, wow, did he ever "hear her". Musta been a good time. According to Cohen, Trump instructed him to pay Stormi hush money, for the purpose of influencing the election which gave Trump the presidency, a definite no no, which directly implicates the president in a crime. The time is fast approaching when will be forced between resigning,, or facing impeachment and removal.For Trump to issue pardons to Manafort, Cohen, and all others who committed crimes on his behalf would not only cause the American people to pitch a conniption, but would also create a new set of legal difficulties for the current president, especially if such pardons occurred before the November elections. if they occurred after the elections, it may be too late. Mueller is basically done with the substantive part of his investigation; if Trump fire shim now, the cat is already out of the bag, so to speak, or soon will be. will trump;s allies in congress abandon him, or will they be too bush dealing with their own criminal indictments? What about his right wing Christian supporters? When will they give up the ghost, as it were, admit that they made a terrible mistake, and move on? probably not before they scream "witch hunt" a few more times, and accuse the left wing and the biased liberal media of concocting a massive conspiracy to force Trump's son to meet with Russian operatives, and inventing the very existence of Stormi Daniels and the army of women who have accused the president of sexual misconduct. The talking heads, people like Sean Hannity, will probably keep talking about Hillary Clinton's emails, Barack Obama's African birth, or anything else, other than their dear leader who has already made American great again.