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DonViejo

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Mon May 7, 2018, 08:40 AM May 2018

Trump team makes the midterms about saving his presidency


The president has raised the specter of impeachment in cautioning his party against letting the House, and even the Senate, fall into Democratic control.

By CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO and DARREN SAMUELSOHN 05/06/2018 05:50 PM EDT

Rudy Giuliani’s revelation Sunday that he expects President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen to cooperate with prosecutors challenged the axiom that when you’re in a hole, stop digging.

Giuliani already had been forced to clarify an earlier interview in which he conceded that Trump reimbursed Cohen for the payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, contradicting repeated denials from the White House.

Still, he kept talking on Sunday, saying it was possible Cohen’s 2016 payment to Daniels wasn’t the only hush money paid out during the presidential campaign.

Legal experts say the decision by Trump’s chatty counsel to keep publicly chewing over Cohen’s situation risks drawing the president into more courtroom drama. But Giuliani seems content to keep the attention focused on that tabloid-friendly fight, as the White House appears to count on Trump’s base continuing to forgive his alleged moral lapses — and as his team seems to bet that GOP voters will turn out in November if they believe it’s the only way to save the president’s political skin.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/06/trump-midterms-republicans-presidency-571550
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Trump team makes the midterms about saving his presidency (Original Post) DonViejo May 2018 OP
That's pathetic C_U_L8R May 2018 #1
Everything is all about trump Gothmog May 2018 #2
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