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Jewish Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Sunday said President Donald Trump could spend time in jail once he leaves the White House.

“My takeaway is there’s a very real prospect that on the day Donald Trump leaves office, the Justice Department may indict him. That he may be the first president in quite some time to face the real prospect of jail time,” Schiff, a former prosecutor and the incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said on “Face the Nation” on CBS.

The suggestion comes after federal prosecutors on Friday said Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney, was directed by Trump in 2016 to make hush money payments to two women who claimed affairs with Trump, who was then a candidate for the Oval Office. The statement came in a memo that suggested Cohen serve a “substantial” prison sentence of 51 to 63 months.

“We have been discussing the issue of pardons that the president may offer to people or dangle in front of people,” said Schiff. “The bigger pardon question may come down the road as the next president has to determine whether to pardon Donald Trump.”

The congressman added he thinks prosecutors made a “powerful case against that idea” in their sentencing memo.

“This was the argument for putting Michael Cohen in jail on these campaign violations. That argument I think was equally made with respect to Individual-1, the president of the United States,” according to Schiff.

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  1. God help us … Jewish Rep. Adam Schiff … ‘influential voice for the Democratic Party on foreign policy and national security issues in the House of Representatives’ … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Schiff
    ‘National’? ‘Security’? Surely some mistake?
    Naturellement, the Schiffster voted in favor of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq at behest of Israhell. It was SUCH a matter of ‘national sekurity’, doncha know.
    ‘In February 2015, discussing how or whether to tailor Bush-era plans from 2001 and 2002 to fight ISIS, Schiff was asked if he regretted voting to invade. He said, “Absolutely. Unfortunately, our intelligence was dead wrong on that, on Saddam at that time. [The vote] set in motion a cascading series of events which have [had] disastrous consequences.”’
    Aw shucks. That of course is why the US is STILL in Iraq. AND Afghanistan. Just an unfortunate continuation of a cascading series of events with disastrous consequences.
    “We have been discussing the issue of pardons that the president may offer to people or dangle in front of people,” said Schiff. “The bigger pardon question may come down the road as the next president has to determine whether to pardon Donald Trump.”
    You can bet yer bottom dollar that they will try to punish Trump put away good ‘n proper. As a ‘deterrent’ to any uppity ‘Goy’ who thinks they can defy the Will of USURA.
    Put me in mind of another personage, it do. ‘Cept the punishment in that case was hanging on a cross.
    Christ he told his mother
    Christ he told her not to bother
    Cos he’s alright in the city
    Cos he’s high above the ground
    He’s just hanging around (hanging around)
    He’s just hanging around (hanging around)
    – The Stranglers

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