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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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The bigger risk for Trump is legal jeopardy. Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, pled guilty to campaign-finance violations for his role as a middleman in the 2016 payments to the two women. It stands to reason that if Cohen was guilty of a felony for those payments, Trump is too, since he signed the checks. Federal legal proceedings in Cohen’s case referred to Trump as “Individual 1” and depicted him as a conspirator in cahoots with Cohen, which Cohen corroborated in Congressional testimony last year. Justice Dept. policy, however, discourages federal prosecution of a sitting president.

That doesn’t apply to state prosecutions, however, and Vance in New York may be carrying forward an investigation where federal prosecutors left off. After the Supreme Court ruling, Vance said his inability to get Trump’s financial records had delayed his investigation by nearly a year. The probe will now resume, he said. That raises the possibility that Vance could indict Trump before Election Day on Nov. 3. Vance is a Democrat, and while he insists his office is above politics, he’d still have the pretext to bring charges for something that happened four years ago.

Cohen pled guilty to the campaign-finance violations as part of a broader deal that also involved financial fraud and other crimes unrelated to Trump. The combative Trump seems unlikely to plead guilty to anything. One certainty of the Supreme Court ruling is that Trump’s legal battles will continue into the foreseeable future.
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