“The Mueller investigation is but a fraction of the president’s troubles,' Bradley Moss, a national security lawyer, told Newsweek.
Special counsel Robert Mueller has finally completed his nearly two-year investigation into Russian election interference, handing off his highly anticipated report to the attorney general on Friday. But legal experts warn that even though Mueller's probe has stopped, there are still plenty more legal woes facing President Donald Trump.
Mueller’s probe into Russian election meddling and possible collusion with the Trump campaign has already brought down a number of the president’s former associates, including former lawyer Michael Cohen, onetime campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former national security adviser Michael Flynn. And many speculate that the findings can potentially be just as damaging for Trump.
“There’s just a lot of really problematic conduct that is being investigated, and that’s not to say that what special counsel Mueller found is not going to be incredibly important…but there’s some danger to looking at whatever he produces as the definitive statement on whether or not this president did anything wrong,” he said.
The SDNY also obtained a guilty plea from Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney and self-described “fixer.” Cohen admitted to eight felony counts, two of which involved campaign finance violations involving hush money payments made to two women before the 2016 election. The former attorney said that he was directed to commit the crimes by the president himself.
“The SDNY investigation, in the end, has to be far more concerning for the president,” Moss said, adding that Trump is effectively “already an unindicted co-conspirator” in Cohen’s crimes. “Depending on what it finds, Congress will probe into the matter in line with its multi-pronged inquiries into possible impeachment charges,” Moss said.
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