Prisoner's Dilemma unfolding in real time

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... if true, Mueller is one giant step closer to proving that Trump knowingly and intentionally participated in an illegal quid pro quo (a “this” for “that” exchange); namely, accepting “dirt” on Hillary Clinton in exchange for the promise to reduce, eliminate, or withhold sanctions on Russian senior officials and oligarchs.

Critically important to this analysis is the fact that federal bribery law – 18 U.S.C. § 201 – criminalizes such conduct not as of the date a candidate is sworn into office as Trump was on January 20, 2017, but rather much earlier as of the date a candidate is “nominated’ for office or “officially informed” that he will be so nominated. Those dates are July 19, 2016 or earlier, making Cohen’s allegation extremely significant.

http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/399435-michael-cohens-bombshell-what-it-means-legally-and-why-he-probably-isnt

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release/tables?rid=53&eid=12914&od=#

Comments

[tijd]

Don't mess with genius:

The left doesn't care about our economic success. All they want to do is make noise, but it's nothing more than background noise. White noise. The truth? Nobody is paying attention to them. Donald Trump's numbers continue to increase, his popularity just keeps going up. And after he met with Putin and was accused of everything from collusion to treason, an offense by the way punishable by death, his numbers continued to go up.
When are they going to realize that their yelling and screaming is nothing but a distraction, nobody cares. We care about food on the table, paying the rent, the mortgage, paying for kids' clothing, for school. But no, they want to talk about whores and porn stars or about a lawyer who they are squeezing so tight he'll confess to sinking the Titanic.
And yet, despite a media focused on a whack-a-mole Trump-Russia collusion nonsense and the haters continuing to hate, the outsider president has thundered forward with his America First agenda.
And with a kryptonite proof aura of invisibility, the 45th outsider President often working without the support of his own party has produced a GDP that no one thought possible, 4.1% and we are on track to hit the highest average growth rate in over 13 years. What have you got to say to that, Barack, Hillary and all you geniuses? We are flying folks. This is the America Donald Trump had in mind when he asked us, "What do you have to lose?"
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/07/29/donald-trump-economic-growth-judge-jeanine-praises-president-accomplishments