JUST AS I PREDICTED FIVE OR SIX MONTHS AGO - THEY TURN ON CROOKED DONALD TRUMP
Michael D. Cohen, CROOKED DONALD TRUMP'S former lawyer, may have begun that education on Wednesday.
A small group of Republican strategists opposed to President Trump, branding themselves Defending Democracy Together, quietly conducted polling and focus groups last fall to gauge whether the president was vulnerable to a primary challenge in 2020. Assembling a presentation for sympathetic political donors, they listed points of weakness for Mr. Trump such as “tweeting/temperament” and “criminality/corruption.”
The group concluded that CROOKED DONALD TRUMP'S scandals were not yet badly damaging him with Republican-leaning voters: “Even relatively high information voters aren’t paying particularly close attention to day-to-day scandals,” the presentation stated. But it added that there was “room to educate voters” on the subject.
Michael D. Cohen, CROOKED DONALD TRUMP'S former lawyer, may have begun that education on Wednesday.
With Mr. Cohen’s appearance before a House committee, the public airing of ethical transgressions by CROOKED DONALD TRUMP'S reached a new phase, one that may be harder to ignore for friends and foes alike. The spectacle of CROOKED DONALD TRUMP'S onetime enforcer denouncing him in televised proceedings, detailing a catalog of allegations of cruelty and crimes, signaled the pressure the president’s already strained coalition could feel in the coming months as Congress scrutinizes him, and as the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III completes his investigation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/us/politics/michael-cohen-trump-reelection.html
Michael D. Cohen, CROOKED DONALD TRUMP'S former lawyer, may have begun that education on Wednesday.
A small group of Republican strategists opposed to President Trump, branding themselves Defending Democracy Together, quietly conducted polling and focus groups last fall to gauge whether the president was vulnerable to a primary challenge in 2020. Assembling a presentation for sympathetic political donors, they listed points of weakness for Mr. Trump such as “tweeting/temperament” and “criminality/corruption.”
The group concluded that CROOKED DONALD TRUMP'S scandals were not yet badly damaging him with Republican-leaning voters: “Even relatively high information voters aren’t paying particularly close attention to day-to-day scandals,” the presentation stated. But it added that there was “room to educate voters” on the subject.
Michael D. Cohen, CROOKED DONALD TRUMP'S former lawyer, may have begun that education on Wednesday.
With Mr. Cohen’s appearance before a House committee, the public airing of ethical transgressions by CROOKED DONALD TRUMP'S reached a new phase, one that may be harder to ignore for friends and foes alike. The spectacle of CROOKED DONALD TRUMP'S onetime enforcer denouncing him in televised proceedings, detailing a catalog of allegations of cruelty and crimes, signaled the pressure the president’s already strained coalition could feel in the coming months as Congress scrutinizes him, and as the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III completes his investigation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/us/politics/michael-cohen-trump-reelection.html
