Democrats want to know if a decades-old DOJ prohibition on indicting a sitting president played a role in the decision not to criminally charge Donald Trump over hush money payments he directed his fixer to pay to women
House Democrats want to know if a decades-old Justice Department prohibition on indicting a sitting president played a role in federal prosecutors' decision not to criminallyThe prohibition, laid out in a 2000 memo by the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel, was also a key factor of former special counsel Robert Mueller's decision to refrain from considering whether to charge Trump with obstruction of justice for his repeated attempts to thwart the investigation of Russian...
Cummings noted that he wrote directly to the SDNY prosecutors because of concerns about the accuracy of information provided to Congress by Attorney General William Barr in characterizing Mueller's findings in March — a month before it became public. Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to two campaign finance violations for arranging payments to two women who were preparing to accuse Trump of extramarital affairs in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election. One of them, porn actress Stormy Daniels, received $130,000 through a shell company that Cohen opened. The other, Karen McDougal, received a $150,000 "catch-and-kill" contract from Trump associates at the National Enquirer to bury her story just before the election.
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