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The truth about the Fairness in Womens Sports Act

Gov. Kelly vetoed the Fairness in Womens Sports Act, betraying the needs of girls for the demands of the radical Left. There are many lies about this bill, and its time to set the record straight.

Fact: the Fairness in Womens Sports Act still lets transgender kids play sports. The only thing the bill does is keep biological boys from stealing sports opportunities in meant for biological women. Before Title IX, just 295,000 women participated in high school athletics in 1972. Today, 3.4 million girls play sports, 42,000 Kansas girls compete in high school athletics.

And heres why it matters that girls have their own teams: Males have a normal strength, agility, and speed advantage over females. Without a female-specific team, many women would have no opportunity to engage in competitive sports.

Our opponents say younger generation doesnt support this bill. But the youngest female senator in Kansas history, Kristen OShea, along with many young former KU athletes and a former Olympian, are just a few of the young women who support this bill. Not to mention, I am a woman in my 20s who personally benefited from womens sports.

Fact: Policies from the KSSHA and the NCAA are allowing biological males into girls sports. Both policies are similar to the policy in Connecticut that has allowed two biological males to steal 15 state championships from 10 girls who previously held the titles. We cannot allow Kansas to become Connecticut. Our girls deserve better.

Brittany Jones (director of advocacy, Family Policy Alliance of Kansas), Topeka

My mind spins at the words "trillion dollars." Most people in America can't even tell you how many zeroes that is, let alone what you could spend it on. The national debt has been maxed out for all my life, yet there is no sign that anyone in Congress can balance their check book.

America spent $17 trillion on a helicopter that spent five seconds landing on Mars. When Americans go to Mars will we be called "aliens"and be greeted with open arms?

Everyday I receive fiverequests for money to help feed Americans, but $3.4 million dollars was spent to replace road signs. Hi-Crest streets haven't been resurfaced for 50 years, yet the choice of the money managers make more amusement parks andwalking trailsthat people of low income can't afford to use. Having fun isn't all there is.

It's not lack of education only that keeps the hungry wanting more free stuff; it's the lack of learning responsibility for taking care of things they have. Give a man a fish, and he will be back tomorrow for more.

School is teaching computers, electronic devices, but not common sense as to how their parents worked (some day and night) to give them nicer things. In many cases you can't be at every ball gameand provide for the family, too.

Compromise is a part of life. The unending expectations of unmet needs will lead you right where hard feelings will eventually be your fault.

How sad to see the system isn't working.

Joyce Stuckey, Topeka

Diversity means variety and is the opposite of uniformity. However, when the left speaks of diversity, they purposely divide this nation into racial and intellectual groups, judging everyone by skin color and beliefs. In the process, they promote racism, bigotry, hate and cancel tactics.

Many diverse groups are attracted to this country due to the great energy, love, devotion, work ethic and success of our forefathers. Many of their countries were destroyed by the craziness that the left is promoting.

Democrats support "Black Lives Matter,"which is an admitted communist organization that encourages protests and destruction of our democracy. Support real Black lives instead by donating to their churches, legitimate organizations, inner city neighborhoods, jobs, schools and families. Dont support BLM, which only exists to spew hate, corruption and violence while undermining the true Black middle classand American progress.

Cancel policies have been around forever. The Democrats cancel movement is being used as a tool for domination and suppression. If one erases the history of our forefathers, those same liars can promote diverse views and indoctrinate weak minds with insane propaganda.

Democrat leftists and monopolies want to define what one should think and do. This defies our basic freedoms and principles.

Our forefathers foresaw and made laws to keep monopolies from controlling our democracy. Yet giant telecoms and corporations enjoy monopolistic powers, enabled by federal law and political ineptness, to assert their will over ours. Boycott them.

Michael C. Welch, Topeka

My fellow Kansans, it is with concern and hope that I am writing today.

Vaccinations are readily available to most citizens and in the long run, these could preserve your lifetimes.

Kansas may well have turned the corner and also the rest of our country if people continue to be vaccinated. COVID-19 was responsible for over half a million deaths in this country. The relief is there and it is time to be vaccinated!

Why am I preaching? Myself, I am 72 years old and have had two vaccines of the Pfizer product with no repercussions. However, I do understand that younger persons in their 30s to 50s have experienced flulike symptoms for a few days. It may well be worth a trip to the family doctor to determine if it can be tolerated. A few hours or one or two days of discomfort may be necessary if it will protect your lives in the long run.

The Center for Disease Control is still advising us to proceed with caution.

My fellow Kansans, it is because I care about my fellow citizens that I feel compelled to write. Please take care of one another and most of all, be safe!

Sandra Powell, Topeka

Hopefully President Biden will make nuclear deals with Iran and North Korea. However, it is equally to be hoped that he does not repeat the fatal flaw of the first Iran deal: It imposed a waiting period for the inspection of suspected sites.

This would have allowed them to move the materials for making a nuclear weapon such as enriched uranium to a second site during the waiting period for the first site; then when the second site would come under suspicion, it would have a waiting period during which the material could be moved to a third site; and so on. (That is why a future president may cancel the deal again.)

Alvin Blake, Topeka

Donald Trump is Americas Adolph Hitler wannabe. Trumps speech and behavior, which reflect his thinking, are those of a raging Nazi. His blatant Nazi tactics include fomenting hatred toward Asian-Americans and other minority groups, inciting the insurrection with its carnage and deaths in the nations capitol and continuing to try to overturn the fair and honest 2020 election.

How can Republicans who fancy themselves closer to God, more patriotic and more in love with America, liberty and freedom than other groups give their overwhelming support and adoration to a buffoon who shows no respect for the Constitution and continues to try by any corrupt means to gain control of the country? Thats an imponderable issue of our era.

It requires a combination of Trumps skill as a liar and con artist coupled with unimaginable levels of gullibility and stupidity on the parts of millions of Republicans. Their brains are seemingly dead, numb or anesthetized.

Rest assured, the most dangerous threat to American democracy isnt Russia, China, North Korea or homegrown terrorists. Its Donald Trump. Sweet Jeepers! Unless theres a major enlightenment, were headed for big trouble.

Richard Schutz, Topeka

Institutional racism and white privilege exist. It is time, actually, past time, that these are discussed and understoodand that we undertake the necessary work of learning about our history which has been incomplete. What we do now is important.

One way to move forward is to empower women and strengthen communities by increasing the gender diversity of our city councils and school boards. Gender diversity improves public trust.

This past year definitely has shown us how important local government is to our daily lives. The COVID-19 pandemic, law enforcement, and racial justice movement remind us of the importance of having local governments (i.e., county commissions, city councils, school boards, as well as civic boards and commissions) that are truly representative of all voices in our communities.

At YWCA Northeast Kansas, we believe equitable representation of women, LGBTQIA+ individualsand minorities within the Topeka community is a necessary step toward a future free from racism, sexism, and all forms of oppression.

We would like to encourage citizens of this community to step into their power and consider running for office in an effort to normalize the underrepresented in positions of influence within the Topeka area. You may find information on how to register as a candidate atbit.ly/VoteTopekaand bit.ly/VoteShawneeCo. The deadline for submission is noonJune 01.

Please consider your role as a catalyst for positive change within this community, where women, children, and people of color are seen as equal, powerful, and unstoppable.

Alisha Saucedo (YWCA Northeast Kansas Advocacy Committee), Topeka

The FY2020 Kansas Department of Corrections Annual Report notes that 40% of our total prison population suffers from mental illness, with the majority of inmates diagnosed with serious mental illness, a condition that interrupts daily routine and requires managed care.

Did you know that the state of Kansas abolished the insanity defense in 1995? Since 1884, Kansas courts had employed the M'Naghten Rule as an affirmative defense of insanity, but now legislators were asked to do away with fundamental, common law.

Per K.S.A. 22-3220, now, K.S.A. 21-5209, a defendant can enter a plea of mental defect to trigger the prosecution's burden to prove mens rea or criminal intent. If the prosecution can prove that the defendant intended a crime, they have a "guilty mind." Mental disease or defect is not otherwise a defense.

In McLinn v. Kansas, one notion brought up by the prosecutor was a supposed, purposeful force Sarah McLinn used to sever Hal Sasko's head. This supposed, purposeful force satisfied a criminal intent to determine a "culpable mental state," but Sarah, diagnosed with multiple personalities, couldn't enter into evidence her pathology as a defense.

In his 1998 criticism of the Kansas abolition of the insanity defense, Marc Rosen explains "there is one major limitation on the defendant's ability to introduce evidence corroborating or showing the existence of a mental disease or defect. Such evidence is only admissible as it specifically relates to the requisite mens rea of the offense."

Now KDOC wants taxpayer dollars for the needs of mentally ill inmates when we have funded state hospitals to treat defendants. It is time to restore an insanity defense in Kansas.

Keri Strahler, Topeka

The best news of 2021 has been the invention of a vaccine that protects the population against a raging pandemic. The COVID-19 vaccine has been given to a large segment of the population and the pandemic has been subsiding.

The most vulnerable of our population are elderly folks living in their homes, assisted living facilitiesand nursing homes. In the effort to vaccinate our seniors, we have allowed some of most vulnerable population to slip through the cracks.

My mother-in-law went to a nursing home in February, after the first wave of the vaccine had been given to the residents. We have requested that she be given the vaccine and have been told by the nursing home staff that she is on the list. Yet, days and weeks go by and she has not been offered the vaccine.

Because of the pandemic, we have not been able to visit her room, meet her new friendsor tour the facility. We would gladly take her to get the vaccine ourselves, but we are not allowed to take her out of the nursing home.

The home has tested my mother-in-law for the virus on a regular basis but has yet to arrange to take her to get vaccinated. How can we say we care for our most vulnerable loved ones when we do not give them an opportunity to be properly vaccinated? We should ensure that the most vulnerable members of society to get vaccinated.

Maurice Hime, Topeka

CJ recently published an article about 10 people who listed their UPS addresses on voter forms.

When Congressman Steve Watkins did the same thing, he was charged with three felonies, costing him an election.

D.A. Mike Kagay, are these 10 folks felons? Logically, it doesnt seem so, because now Kagay is saying he doesn't investigate allegations of voter fraud or direct law enforcement to do so and avoids followup questions. Whats with the double-standard?

After an investigation that dragged on a year, Watkins was served miraculously moments before a debate, which was also somehow the day before voting. Hmm.

Which is more likely: It was the biggest coincidence in the history of Kansas politicsor Kagay and Jake LaTurners people executed an unethical swamp-style political ambush?

Kansans lost what would have been the next great, smart, honest, charismatic, war veteran in Congressman Watkins. But the real losers are those involved in this cabal, including and especially Kagay and LaTurner.

Andrew Wallentine, Topeka

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What happens if an ex-president goes to jail (hypothetically speaking)? It wouldn’t be pretty – Salon

The United States has never had a president go to prison. Neithera sitting president, nor a former one. Arguably there are a few who should have although that's another matter.

Donald Trump couldchange that. Perhaps that's not surprising: Trump will already be remembered by history as the first president to be impeached twice, the first president to refuse to accept losing an election, the first president to lack any prior political or military experience and one of five presidents to be elected without winning the popular vote. He has rackedup questionable distinctions like Tom Brady winsSuper Bowl rings.

Now Trump may facejail timefor alleged financial crimes in New York or his efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, or his speech to the Jan. 6 rioters. Given his pattern of ethically iffy business dealings and ripping off the taxpayers, as well as his shady actions in Russia and Ukraine, something completely unforeseen could also arise during current investigations that lands him in jail.

At any rate,if Trump goes to prison, it will be a first in the history of this country. What, if anything, does that say about the state of our democracy?

We can start by looking at the closest equivalents to Trump's situation, which occurred shortly after the Civil War. Without question the most volatile such case was the potential trial of Jefferson Davis, who had been president of the Confederacy and intended to arguethat he did nothing illegal by siding with Mississippi once it seceded. (Whether the Confederate States of America counts as a real nation, and Davis as a real president, is a contested question.) Given that the Civil War had ended only a few years earlier, it is entirely conceivable that Davis' trial would have sparked violencewhether he was convicted. Fortunately for him, President Andrew Johnson pardoned Davis and other former leading Confederates forthe crime of treason, so we don'tknow how such atrial would have played out.

A lesser known case involving an authentic, no-doubt president is that ofJohn Tyler, who was president from 1841 to 1845, following the death of William Henry Harrison. No one ever accused Tyler of dishonesty, but he sided with hishome state of Virginia when it seceded from the Union, in 1861,servingin various Confederate legislative bodies. Tyler died of a stroke early in 1862, three years before the Civil Warended, sohe was never held legally accountable for his actions and there's no way to know how events would have played out. Tyler offers, however, the only clear example of a former U.S. president committing treason. (Until now, some would say.)

Around the same time that Jefferson Davis faced an uncertainlegal fate, the president who pardoned him, Andrew Johnson,became the first president to beimpeached, in his case by a Republican-controlled Congress that opposed his lenient policies toward the conquered South. But Johnson was charged with no crime after leaving office, whereas Richard Nixon who resigned before he could be impeached probably would have been had Gerald Ford not pardoned him. Bill Clinton, the second president to be impeached, was accused by his enemies of all kinds of imaginary crimes, but never faced any serious threat of criminal prosecution for any aspect of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

So American historyprovides no clear oruseful parallels, and we have to cast the net more widely still without finding any obvious similar instances. One thing we can say is that a criminal conviction wouldn't necessarily end Trump's political career, and another is that the chances of an actual head of state literally winding up behind bars appear very low. Former Italian prime ministerSilvio Berlusconiwas convicted of tax fraud in 2013 also one of Trump's more plausible crimes and served his "prison sentence" by doing unpaid community work because of his age. Despite hisconviction, Berlusconi remains a powerful figure on the Italian right andeventually returned to politics, winning election to theEuropean Parliament in 2019.

One case very much in the news isIsrael, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuhas held power for the last 12 years(after also serving as prime minister in the late '90s). Hewasindicted in 2019 for accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust but has refused to leave office, clinging to power through several indecisive elections thanks to the loyalty of the Israeli right. With a new coalition government reportedly emerging this week that could end Netanyahu's tenure, the danger of conviction and prison time is now real.

Former French prime ministerFranois Fillon could well be heading to prison but even in France, this isn't a huge story. (In the French political system, the president holds executive power and the prime minister is perhaps closer to the House speaker in the U.S.)An old-school center-right conservative,Fillon was allied with formerPresident Nicolas Sarkozy and was was briefly seen as the frontrunner in the 2017 presidential election (eventually won by Emmanuel Macron). After Fillon wascharged with embezzlement,his political fortunes collapsed, and last year he was finally convicted of fraud and misusing funds. He was sentenced to five years in prison, with three of them suspended, and is currently appealing his sentence.

What lessons have we learned about the prospect of Donald Trumpending up in a prison jumpsuit? Pretty much none. Trump is perhaps vaguely similar to the examples ofBerlusconi,Netanyahu andDavis in that he has a passionate following, and leadsa movement that is unwaveringly devoted to him as an individual. As with Berlusconiand Netanyahu, hissupporters are unlikely to abandon him even if he is indicted or convicted. If anything, a criminal trial might turn him into a martyr, and increasehis followers'sensepersecution,emboldening them to do who knows what.

John Tyler, Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton never commanded that kind of slavish devotion. Nothing even close.

Consider also that there's no legal or constitutional impediment toan eligible citizenrunning for president while incarcerated.Trump could orchestrate apolitical resurrection from a prison cell, being "restored" to what his followers deem his rightful placeeither by legitimately being elected or (far more likely)because the recent wave ofvoter suppression laws enacted by Republicanscreate a situation where he can't lose. Much as Hitler proclaimed his ascension to power as a vindication of the nine months he served in prison aftertheBeer Hall Putsch, Trump's miraculous election-from-prison would be embraced by his followers as proof that it was all worth it. Most of them would shy away from the Hitler parallels, of course but some, if QAnonrhetoric is to be believed, may not.

If Trump is actually put on trial, it will become a spectacle unlike any otherin American history. Anypossible verdict acquittal, conviction or mistrial will be received by his supporters as a great victory. No matter what happens,such a trial wouldserve as a flashpoint for a far-right, anti-democratic movement the likes of which has never before existed in this country. On balance, that sounds really bad.

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Liberal Media Scream: ‘Some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them’ – msnNOW

Alex Brandon/AP Former President Donald Trump in March 2020 spoke about the coronavirus, calling it the China virus." The media called it a fringe theory but are now embracing.

This weeks Liberal Media Scream features a top critic of the Trump years, ABCs Jonathan Karl, who finally said out loud what supporters of President Trump already knew: The White House press corps had such contempt for the president that they dismissed everything he said.

Or, in Karls words, some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them.

Karl on Sundays This Week grudgingly conceded Trump may have been correct in pointing to a lab in Wuhan, China as the source of COVID-19. He blamed Trump, not journalists, for ignoring the lab as the source because of how Trump used racist terms in describing the virus.

During the roundtable segment on Sundays This Week, after host Martha Raddatz suggested some people have egg on their face for being so dismissive of the possibility the COVID-19 virus came out of a lab in China, Karl said:

Yes, I think a lot of people have egg on their face. This was an idea that was first put forward by Mike Pompeo, secretary of State, Donald Trump. And look, some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them. And there was - because Trump was saying so much else that was just out of control, and because he was, you know, making a frankly racist appeal talking about kung-flu and the China virus, his notion that he put forward that this may have, or he said flatly that this came from that lab, was widely dismissed, but actually there is some real reason -- we dont know, by the way, we still dont know, we absolutely dont know, but now serious people are saying it needs a serious inquiry.

Media Research Center Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly pick: Karl said out loud what everyone already presumed: So many in the Washington press corps had such contempt for President Trump that they dismissed anything he said they could characterize in their minds as coming from foul motives. Thus, journalists proudly rationalized putting their prejudices first. But that meant the media failed in its basic duty to inform the public of the best information available about the source of a pandemic which has killed 3.5 million worldwide.

Rating: FIVE out of FIVE screams.

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Opinion | Release the Barr-Trump Memo on Obstruction of Justice – The New York Times

These shenanigans came after Mr. Barr was revealed to have written a memo for Mr. Trump while a private citizen, a long document that concluded that, yes, you guessed it, the president was not guilty of obstruction of justice.

The Justice Department is the one cabinet agency that has a value in its name justice. Its iconography a blindfolded Lady Justice underscores the idea that everyone has to play by the same rules. Mr. Barr appears to have desecrated that cardinal principle. The public has a right to know what he and his Justice Department lawyers did and why they did it.

We already had one by-the-book official, the special counsel, Robert Mueller, try to apply regular principles to a deeply abnormal presidency, and we witnessed the result: a distorted impeachment and the nullification of potential criminal charges.

The problem for the new Justice Department is: What does it do now? Should it depart from ordinary rules because the last administration did so? If it doesnt appeal Judge Jacksons decision, isnt the department allowing a precedent to be set that private litigants can ask for and get all sorts of prosecutorial materials?

No. Good surgeons dont always operate, and good appeals lawyers dont always appeal. Here, Justice Department lawyers could have safeguarded the departments interests by saying they disagreed with the decision, but because it was a trial court decision, it was not precedential for other cases and not appropriate to appeal.

And the department then could have voluntarily released the memo without conceding that it was required by the Freedom of Information Act. When the Justice Department doesnt appeal a decision, that doesnt mean it agrees with it. Lawyers there decide not to appeal all the time for many reasons. In short, there were better solutions here that would have walked the tightrope between the publics need to know and the Justice Departments general need to protect prosecutorial interests.

In the end, there must be a zone of confidential government decision-making and privacy. Good government depends on it. But that zone is a two-way street: It also depends on government officials who behave as if they deserve to be there. The Justice Departments decision to appeal Judge Jacksons order treated this case like any other garden-variety case.

It wasnt.

Neal K. Katyal is a professor at Georgetown Law School, was an acting solicitor general in the Obama administration and wrote, with Sam Koppelman, Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump.

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Michael Cohen reveals what Donald Trump really thinks about the LGBTQ community – LGBTQ Nation

Michael Cohen, the former fixer and personal attorney for former President Donald Trump, appeared on the Raw Story Podcastto discuss the latest development in criminal investigations into his former boss. Cohen, serving time on limited home confinement stemming from federal convictions on tax evasion and campaign finance violations, was asked about Trumps actual feelings about LGBTQ people.

Cohen shared his belief that Trump doesnt care if youre LGBTQ, cause you dont mean anything to him, and hes basically repulsed by the community. He then shared a story where Trump remarked that he knew someone who hates having a gay son.

Related: Trump supporter screams racist & antigay slurs at Joe Biden at ice cream shop

First, Cohen details his run-ins while taking a walk (allowed under the restrictions of his home confinement sentence) when he was verbally accosted by a Trump supporter in Central Park. He brushed it off at first, but then the same woman would approach him a few days later in the park.

Next thing I know, right back into my face is this lady again, her second time this time I was listening to Bohemian Rhapsody, Cohen recalled. The Queen song spurred Cohen to respond to the womans curses and negative remarks, and recorded her tirade.

This is typical of what Trump does to people, Cohen remarked. Its almost like she became empowered to act a complete asshole.

He added, [she] interfered with Queen, and thats just unacceptable.

Podcast co-host Shannyn Moore remarked, Virtually everything you have predicted over the last couple of years has come true. Youre sort of a Nostradamus on all things Trump-y. The host ask Cohen what he thinks will happen next to Trump and his associates, with New York City opening a criminal-investigative grand jury investigating the business activity of Trump.

Its going to be like the Olympics gymnastic team, Cohen remarked, theres going to be flipping all over the place.

Podcast co-host Mike Rogers then asks Cohen, What does Donald Trump think of the Central Park Five, [Barack] Obamas nationality, and the LGBT community?

Cohen answers that he wasnt working for Trump at that time since he was in junior high school, or high school at that time, but that its well-documented that Trump is a racist.

On Trumps predecessor, Cohen said that Barack Obama is a thorn in Trumps large ass. There is no other way to put it. He cites Obamas race, intelligence, and the fact he is really universally loved.

As for LGBTQ people, Cohen said, He thinks about them as much as he thinks about yknow, nothing. He doesnt care about the community. In fact, hes basically repulsed by the community.

Cohen cites a time Trump apparently told him, Oh, you know, a friend of mine has a son, whos gay, and you know, hes really rich his father hates it.'

So its not true. I happen to know the family. The father doesnt hate it, Cohen remarked. Now, would the father prefer him to be, you know, heterosexual? I dont know. I never asked him maybe yes, no, I dont know. Its none of my business, its between them. But Trump then puts himself into the dead center.

This is proof to Cohen that Trump doesnt have any regard for anyone. He doesnt care if youre Black, right? He doesnt like you. He doesnt care if youre white, he doesnt like you really, either unless, of course, youre a Trump supporter. Right?

He doesnt care if youre LGBTQ, cause you dont mean anything to him. Thats the problem, the man lacks any relationships. I mean, its why Donald Trump has no friends.

He then compares how Obama used to have friends from college and his pre-Presidential days that would visit him and be welcomed at the White House, to how Trump didnt have any friends or people he welcomed. People say to me, Im a friend of Donald Trump,' Cohen said, to which he replied, I know youre lying.

Cohen then expressed that while he wasnt completely ignorant about Trump prior to working for him in 2007 when he was the face of the top reality show on network television, The Apprentice, and half-owner of Miss Universe he didnt foresee what he would become and how his Presidential administration would turn out to become.

He stressed how he didnt . Yeah, I worked for a monster, Cohen admitted.

My wife, my children begged me, begged me not to take the job they begged me to quit, he recalled, admitting that Trump was disrespectful to my daughter in front of him. He still didnt have the wherewithal to quit.

I almost felt guilty its weird: the cult of Trump is a cult. Plain and simple, hes no different than any other cult leader, and he is the Jim Jones.

Cohen later said the low hanging fruits indictments against Barry Weisselberg and Allen Weisselberg will come first. Barry Weisselberg was the manager of Central Parks Wollman Rink, operated by the Trump Organization from 2001 to 2021, and Allen Weisselberg is the Chief Financial Officer of the Trump Organization.

Cohen then said he believes Trump will be indicted after that, before summer. That will be the first time in his entire life that he will be held responsible for his dirty deed, remarked Cohen.

Cohen said he believes Trump will face a hybrid form of punishment from the judicial system as opposed to a prison sentence, as sending a former President to jail is unprecedented and could cause complex issues, such as with Secret Service protection and sensitive national security information.

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