George Conway Takes Down Trump On Twitter After More Cohen Case Immunity News

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s world just keeps getting smaller and smaller. This past week, he lost his former lawyer Michael Cohen and his former campaign manager Paul Manafort to the law. Each man faced a number of felony charges, and Cohen pleaded guilty while Manafort was ruled guilty by a jury. Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway’s husband George has again taken to offering public comment on the situation via the president’s own favorite medium — Twitter.

He mocked the predicament in which Trump has found himself in response to a post about authorities’ decision to grant longtime Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg immunity as part of their probe into Cohen.

Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti started a thread by asking:

‘What does the grant of immunity to Trump Organization CFO Alan Weisselberg tell us?’

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In response, George Conway quipped:

‘It means that Individual-1 needs a real lawyer.’

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“Individual-1” is how prosecutors identify Trump in their court filings against Cohen, Mariotti himself noted.

Although the identification isn’t “Donald Trump,” it’s not as though there’s a question who it is. Cohen further confirmed that Trump can’t get away from this situation via telling a court that he committed some of his crimes in question at the direction of a candidate for federal office. It’s not as though Cohen worked for candidates for federal office other than Donald Trump.

Cohen pleaded guilty to — among other crimes — two campaign finance law violations. The hush money Cohen helped get out to adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal constitutes those crimes. Both women say they had affairs with the man who is now president, and Cohen says he tried to secretly shut them up with massive sums of cash at Trump’s direction.

The campaign finance law violations aren’t the only crimes Cohen pleaded guilty to this week, but that aspect of the case does seem to be what drew in Weisselberg. Although he helped set up Trump’s payments to Cohen reimbursing him for the hush money, he reportedly didn’t know what the money was for. Concurrent to the campaign finance law violations he was still involved in, he could also have faced criminal liability for bank fraud pre-immunity, Mariotti explained. It depends on how far the twisted Trump Organization records went. If Weisselberg or someone else submitted them to a bank in search of loans, “that’s bank fraud,” he says.

Weisselberg isn’t the first eye-catching name to come out as having been granted immunity as part of the Cohen case. Thursday, reports circulated that American Media, Inc.’s David Pecker had also been granted immunity as part of testimony he offered. Pecker, whose company publishes the National Enquirer, assisted Cohen in his hush money efforts.

It all adds up to a pressure-filled week for President Trump — the law keeps getting closer and closer to him.

Trump has spent his time ranting, of course, jabbing at Michael Cohen for pleading guilty since that’s what “rats” do. He added in a Fox News interview that he thinks cooperating with authorities should be illegal altogether — but he can’t just rant his way out of legal accountability.

Check out Twitter’s response to George Conway below.

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