Two witches caught - the Wicked Witch of the West (West Wing) still in flight

Trump's long time personal lawyer and "fixer", Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to crimes of $4,000,000 in tax evasion (anyone remember what put Al Capone into prison?) and for campaign finance violations for paying off two women at Trump's direction to silence them just prior to the November election - felony conspiracy to affect the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

And Former Trump campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was found guilty on eight felony counts of bank and tax fraud and failing to disclose foreign bank accounts, and a mistrial on ten counts.  Plus he has another trial coming up next month or so.

The corrupt apples don't fall far from the corrupt apple tree of Donald J Trump.

What the Judge and Cohen said when he pleaded guilty -The judge asked him did he know what he was doing? Are you pleading guilty because you are guilty? Cohen sighs, Yes your honor.  And he pleaded guilty to eight counts - five of tax evasion, one on misleading a bank on a loan application, and two on finance campaign violations.

He said that he committed these campaign crimes at the direction of a candidate for federal office (Trump).  

The judge laid out the possible sentences totaling 65 years in jail, do you understand that? - Yes your honor. And you cannot withdraw your guilty plea no matter what you  might have heard about what your sentence will be? - Yes your honor.  Did you know when you did this that it was illegal and wrong? - Yes your honor.

Both men's crimes are essentially the same crimes that Trump has committed for many years (bank fraud, tax evasion) and during the campaign (felony conspiracy to rig the election in his favor).  So, the net tightens on this deeply corrupt man in the White House.

And we haven't even yet begun on money laundering crimes (of Russian oligarchs and mobsters), which I fully expect to be coming down the track at Mr Trump like a locomotive at full steam.

So, Trump tells us this is a witch hunt.  Well, they convicted two witches yesterday.

 
Coming soon, we are likely to see the conviction of another witch - the Wicked Witch of the West - the West Wing, that is....

Perhaps Mr Trump, like his employees, will find out that he is not above the law.