At least one House Intelligence Committee member thinks the special counsel’s investigation is getting closer to ensnaring the president.
Rep. Denny Heck, D-Wash., said in an interview Wednesday the last few weeks’ events — including the sentencing memos for President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen, who was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for financial crimes and lying to Congress — suggest to him the president is in trouble.
“In light of what happened today, in light of all the events of the last couple of weeks and all of the sentencing memos that have been filed, 36 indictments, three prison terms and the like, I’m prepared to say something I’ve never said,” he said. “The writing’s on the wall. The walls are closing in. This is the beginning of the end for the Trump administration.”
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling has not yet concluded. Mueller has handed off several related investigations to federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, including Cohen’s.
The sentencing memo in Cohen’s New York case, which had to do with financial crimes that included campaign finance violations related to payments made to two women for their silence regarding affairs with Trump, said Cohen had acted at the direction of “Individual 1,” widley known to be Trump.
