It is very possible that the president of the United States is a criminal. And it is very possible that his criminality aided and abetted his assumption of the position. Last week, prosecutors made clear in a sentencing memo for Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, that Trump himself had directed Cohen to break campaign finance laws. Yes, there is the question of obstruction of justice, which I believe has already been proven by Trump’s own actions in public. But beyond all that, we now have an actual, and one assumes provable, crime.

Source: New York Times December 10, 2018 00:45 UTC