Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen discussing plea deal with prosecutors
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I'd almost suspect it's so that whichever way it turns, he can claim he was right? That sounds like something a pathological liar/narcissist would do.
So when faced with his lawyer making a deal, knowing that he has recorded evidence of Trump committing crimes, his response is to...shit-talk him even more?
69d backgammon at work again?
You don't get it. Trump isn't playing 69d backgammon because he doesn't play GAMES. He plays for REALS
This is exactly the kind of ballsy patriotism and fiery, uncompromising sense of justice I'd expect from America's most controversial political figure.
Trump’s power to deny reality is one he utilized every single day.
I can’t wait to see the tweets over the next few days..
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1032071989433966598?s=20
Ah, yes, the "But Mom, EVERYONE does it!" Defense.
Dershowitz is a Trump stooge pushing Trump's agenda for what I expect is considerable personal benefit.
Besides, if "everybody does it", why hasn't the Republican-led Congress been Benghazi'ing Hillary all over again for the alleged campaign finance violations by over $300,000 she "definitely" did? You'd think that'd provide so much red meat for their voters they'd be gagging to do it.
Medical science needs to biopsy these people and find out how they can maintain coherent thought and fine motor control when so much of their body mass is pure shit.
Waiting for “everyone breaks the law! Wtf is the big deal?!?!?” galaxy brain.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/22/michael-cohen-paid-a-mysterious-tech-company-50000-in-connection-with-trumps-campaign.html
Buried in the legal documents released Tuesday as part of Cohen's guilty plea on eight felony counts, there was a new, previously unreported payment Cohen made in 2016 to help Trump: $50,000 for work that
prosecutors say Cohen "solicited from a technology company during and in connection with the campaign."
The documents do not identify which tech company Cohen paid the money to, or what, exactly, the company did for him. But the mere existence of the previously unknown payment suggests that Cohen may have
been doing more for Trump, and for the Trump campaign, than simply paying off women.
Furthermore, the way that Cohen reported the $50,000 expense to the Trump Organization in January 2017 suggests the money may not have been paid out through traditional financial channels. According to
prosecutors, Cohen presented Trump executives with bank records for several of the expenses he incurred on Trump's behalf. But for his $50,000 payment to a tech company, Cohen provided no paperwork, just a
handwritten sum at the top of one of the other bank documents.
The Trump Organization would later say that the $50,000 was a "payment for tech services." However, prosecutors say the $50,000 "was in fact related to work Cohen had solicited from a technology company
during and in connection with the campaign."
Cohen is not believed to have played any part in the official digital operations of the Trump 2016 campaign, nor did Cohen ever have a formal staff position on the campaign itself.
All of which only deepens the mystery of exactly what tech services Cohen was buying to help Trump's campaign.
Cohen "is happy to tell the special counsel all that he knows, not just about the obvious possibility of a conspiracy to collude and corrupt the American democracy system in the 2016 election … but also,
knowledge about the computer crime of hacking and whether or not Mr. Trump knew ahead of time about that crime and even cheered it on," Davis said during an appearance on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow
Show" on Tuesday night.
Despite Davis' cryptic clues, there is nothing so far to indicate that the $50,000 in services that Cohen bought from the anonymous tech company were in any way related to the Russian cyber crimes and theft
of emails that damaged Trump's Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
It is also unclear whether the special counsel has interviewed Cohen yet. A Mueller spokesman declined to comment.
What if it is for Twitter as a payment to prevent them from banning Trump's account
So which line of the narcissist's prayer does this count as?
Is it just my imagination, or is the tone of Trump's tweets objectively getting more desperate? His explanations of the 'true' state of affairs gets more and more convoluted and ridiculous with each new tweetstorm. Man, I really hope his tweets are used as aggravating evidence in his sentencing.
Remember, he's a raging narcissist. He lives in a bubble of lies he erects to explain away anything that could possibly make him look bad. It's why he yells "fake news" at anything he doesn't like and slobbers over any reporting (almost exclusively from Fox News/alt-right mouthpieces) that feeds his ego.
Throughout his life, anytime he's gotten into legal trouble, he's been able to pay his way out.
To become President, he has apparently written checks his ass cannot cash. He's in too deep to pay his way out; the left is, broadly speaking, demanding impeachment and a life sentence in jail for crimes he knows he's committed. The cost of doing dirty business has finally exceeded what cash can cover, and Mueller's on his scent.
Trump's a cornered animal and, despite being President, he's impotent to stop it because his attorney general rightfully recused himself instead of protecting him, the deputy attorney general is the one who authorized and continues to run the Mueller probe (meaning he's an enemy), and the Special Councel[sic] Bob Mueller is leading a "witch hunt" against him and his aides and lawyers have been telling him for over a year that if he fires Mueller he will face impeachment. Expect him to go metaphorically nuclear and attempt to fire Rosenstein or Mueller directly if one of his sons or Kushner is raided.
He's going to become more and more unstable and unhinged as investigators get closer to him and his immediate family. The Trump Organization is already under investigation, effectively, which crosses Trump's red line.
If not the tone, then the fact that he's raging at 1 in the fucking morning like a 12 year old playing comp CS:GO
It's also worth noting that the further his presidency goes (and the further the investigation goes), the more damaging and awful his policy changes are, the first half of the first year was pretty mellow, now he's just a raging monkey in a preschool. I think it's not just a sign of him getting more comfortable in office, but that he's becoming more unstable and doesn't trust anyone around him anymore.
Let me guess: they made the decision to buy and bury the Playboy model story because they were paid off by Trump.
On September 30, 2016, Cohen created Resolution Consultants LLC, a Delaware shell company, to purchase the rights to McDougal's story from the National Enquirer, though the rights to the story were ultimately
never purchased.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cohen_(lawyer)
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