[Free Beacon] With some even saying to "forget" about the Robert Mueller Russia investigation, press members said the Southern District of New York's investigation of the Trump organization was where the real threat to President Donald Trump was.Last week, SDNY prosecutors revealed their investigation into hush money payments to women Michael Cohen claims to have made at Trump's direction had ended. Fox News reported this meant there are likely no charges to be filed against Trump or other members of the Trump Organization.
CNN reported it was a "significant victory" for Trump's family business:
The conclusion of federal prosecutors' investigation of the Trump company's role in the Cohen matter marks a significant victory for the President's family business, although it likely doesn't come as a complete surprise. There had been no contact between the Manhattan US Attorney's office and officials at the Trump Organization in more than five months, CNN reported Friday.
Yet this development could come as a surprise to pundits and reporters who believed, for instance, that "this is where it ends for this president."
So said MSNBC host Donny Deutsch in February about the SDNY's investigation. Deutsch also remarked that "what is going to destroy everything he ever built and his children is a 30-year dishonest criminal enterprise."
"Many analysts have said that the Manhattan office of the Justice Department, the Southern District of New York, poses the real threat to the president," MSNBC's Brian Williams said on March