Michael Cohen received $500,000 from firm tied to Russian Oligarch

[xfb]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/us/politics/michael-cohen-shell-company-payments.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Mueller stopped Victor Vekselberg for questioning earlier this year.

[smurfy]

Uhhhhh Essential Consultants LLC appears to be a giant Trump slush fund

[🦇Pachira🦇]

I wish they could just jail these traitors already before they fuck us over even more. Trump and his cronies keep coming up with more ways to fuck this country and the rest of the world over day by day.

[elix]

https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/993963753736634368

https://twitter.com/EricBoehlert/status/993967611296788480

Cohen's finances are weird, for such a rich boi.

https://twitter.com/CharlesMBlow/status/993070229990379520

Also, a long Twitter thread about Stupid Cohen Tricks, aka why he's probably next to flip.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/993639157045121024

https://twitter.com/aliasvaughn/status/993640819281285120

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/2304/6a394da7-7de3-4cee-94ef-6b887b921802/image.png

Also, it's an editorial so it's not worth putting in its own thread, but it's relevant to Cohen: Why does billionaire boi Trump need to pay Cohen off in small monthly installments? Giuliani is making Trump look like he's lying about his wealth, and the only reason Trump shouldn't blame Giuliani for it is that Trump himself is the one who's making his boasts look like lies. And Cohen's financial picture is looking shaky, as referenced above, too -- just in time for when he needs to mount an expensive legal defense to fight off one portion of one of the most determined federal criminal investigations ever deployed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/get-there/wp/2018/05/08/trump-brags-that-hes-a-billionaire-but-he-doesnt-act-like-one/

[Bahamut88]

"WITCH HUNT! NO COLLUSION!!" Mhm, sure Trumpy.

[BuffaloHops]

https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/993983493033086977

[elix]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-attorney-michael-cohen-was-hired-by-us-affiliate-of-russian-company/2018/05/08/12a218c8-52f6-11e8-abd8-265bd07a9859_story.html

And this is why he was paid. So that's interesting.

The rabbit hole just keeps getting deeper and wider.

[BuffaloHops]

https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/994027381185830917

[xfb]

I can't believe Cohen used the same shell company for seemingly everything.

Cohen's idiocy and documentation of everything is a giant gift to the investigation.

[BuffaloHops]

This truly is Stupid Watergate.

[Bahamut88]

Stupid Gate is definitely the way to describe this.

[Potusandrew]

https://twitter.com/jonswaine/status/993998424365203456?s=19

This is relevant to me because someone I know is applying to Novartis. Curious to know what it could be about.

[Zero-Point]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4ee14ubeA0

Jesus tap-dancing Christ, that's a pretty significant revelation.