Can Cohen's Plea Really Derail The Trump Train?

With the conviction of Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer and fixer, the President is now ‘formally’ implicated in a criminal conspiracy.

Trump has already spent much effort in portraying Mueller’s investigation as a witch hunt. With Cohen’s recent ridiculous guilty plea, it appears that the questionable practices of the Mueller Investigation have reached a new low.

It was just about a month ago that Trump lashed out at Michael Cohen over his release of a secret audio recording of their conversation regarding payment discussions to a Playboy model to whom Trump had an affair with. Recently on Tuesday, August 21 Michael Cohen, Trump’s longtime lawyer and confidante had pleaded guilty to eight different federal crimes which include his admission to making illegal campaign contributions and paying porn star Stormy Daniels ex-Playboy model Karen Mc Dougal for their silence.

The truth is, if a violation even occurred, it was a minor one and certainly not justification for such a severe 3 to 5 year prison sentence.

He made his stunning guilty plea just within minutes of a Virginia jury convicting Paul Manafort who is formerly Trump’s campaign chairman on eight counts following his trial on fraud and tax charges. Manafort is now waiting for his sentence and second trial.

Although referring to Trump as Individual-1 in the documents, Cohen spoke in the open court acknowledging the payments saying that he did so “in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office with the goal of influencing the 2016 presidential election”.

Now that Cohen has pleaded guilty in the court, he is attempting to indicate that Trump had instructed him to break campaign-finance laws by paying both Daniels and Mc Dougal so that the two will not publicly disclose the affairs they had with Trump.

So, does the Cohen and Manafort Convictions in Court Vindicate special counsel Mueller’s Investigation?

In a deal that according to New York Times report does not include Cohen’s agreement to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, the former Trump lawyer and fixer is now on his own and is facing a jail time of up to four years. Some legal experts, however, are speculating that Cohen is now cooperating with Mueller’s probe and that he was facing more charges than he intended to plead to.

As the timing of the events appears to be in favor with Mueller, some experts have reason to speculate that he is attempting to intimidate Cohen and Manafort into fabricating evidence against Trump. Recently, Trump’s camp has upped its efforts towards imposing arbitrary deadline on Mueller’s investigation.

Nonetheless, with the conviction of both Cohen and Manafort, Mueller has once again won a momentum against Trump and it seems that more than ever the law is on the special counsel’s side.

Despite being unrelated to the Russian collusion issue, the deepening legal trouble that has befallen to Cohen and Manafort will likely have add significant “fake momentum” for Mueller’s current investigation. Their conviction just highlighted that prosecutors are potentially looking past more severe crimes for the opportunity to “Trump Up” claims against the President.