How does Donald Trump avoid a criminal conviction and possible prison time when he is no longer President?
There are two possible paths for him to follow. He could hope he is re-elected in 2020 and the statute of limitations on what appears to be his crime will have run its course by 2022.
The crime, as outlined in a sentencing memo from federal prosecutors in the Michael Cohen case, is an election violation as candidate Trump ordered Cohen to make hush money payments to two women in order to conceal Trump’s extra marital affairs before the 2016 election.
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