Michael Cohen’s warning to the TrumpubliCON inquisitors rings true: they are doing exactly what got him in so much trouble — covering up for Trump. And we have to keep reminding everyone: Cohen pled guilty for lying to Congress. The lie he got convicted for telling was to say that TRUMP HAD DONE NOTHING WRONG.
Republicans keep saying that Cohen is a rat (which is true).
But he was TRUMP’s rat. Trump is the one who hired Cohen and so many, many other rats, while bragging that he hires “only the best people.”
And same for the RepubliCON National Committee (RNC) who now judges him so harshly: THEY HIRED HIM AS THEIR DEPUTY FINANCE CHAIRMAN.
Cohen is a long-time hired liar, thug and mobster. But mobster thugs can be valued witnesses when they turn state’s evidence, with the promise that they can receive lenience ONLY if they tell the truth and can corroborate it with supporting evidence and documents.
Cohen already has a three-year sentence hanging over his head for the crimes to which he pled guilty. His only chance to reduce it is to tell the truth. And as he has already learned, lying to congress sends you to jail. If he does it again, he will not only lose any chance to reduce his three-year sentence, he will get a whole new sentence for a whole new crime.
That is why mobster thugs, and Michael Cohen, can be trusted.
The only lifeline they have is to tell the truth and provide documents and evidence, and Cohen is bringing checks, financial documents AND TAPES.
That’s a little harsh. The congressional GOP isn’t a mob-like fixer for Trump. It’s a mob-like fixer for corporations. They’re just using Trump to further their own goals. The moment he stops being useful, they’ll kick him to the curb like yesterday’s trash.
Seriously, has the G.O.P.’s BLATANT HYPOCRISY EVER been more fully displayed then over the last couple of days??
Remember, in the next election, you have a choice. You can vote for the Candidate that BELIEVES in the U.S. Constitution and the Rule Of Law, OR you can vote for the Republican Candidate. THAT’S your choice.
There is something hideously wrong when a conservative group morphs into an anti-conservative, anti-democratic, anti-republican, anti-US-Constitution bent on excluding the vast majority of citizens from having a voice in Congress or court and derisively calls themselves Republicans when their agenda is overtly authoritarian counting heavily on bias, fear, anger and tons of misinformation. How much longer will real Americans allow these scoundrels to the defame the name of a once honorable conservative political party that once worked with progressives to create moderate legislation that everyone could live/prosper with?
DD Whiz recommended an excellent book, which I’d advise everybody to either purchase or get from the library and read! “Everything Trump Touches Dies” was written by Rick Wilson, who was a Republican political strategist and media consultant. This man knows the Trump Machine inside and out. He predicted Cohen’s downfall, and has some sobering things to say about the Republicans and the fate of America.
As idiotic as the members of the modern Republican party have become (trying, desperately, and mostly successfully, to drag themselves down to the depths of the Trump Dunce), the funniest thing of all was their insistence that Cohen (like Trump, a proven liar) was lying in his testimony. People, people (and also you members of the Republican party), you know who was watching that testimony, besides the rest of the world? ROBERT MUELLER. If members of Congress are getting sick and tired of Cohen, after a few days of testimony, imagine how sick and tired of Cohen Mueller’s Crimebusting team is! The point? IF Cohen lied to this Congressional committee, that is a felony. And, the Crimebusters were watching and comparing and contrasting all the hundreds of hours of testimony Cohen gave to THEM. Talk about the most DISincentive to lie to a bunch of little kids pretending to be Republican legislators…….
Conservative pundit David Brooks: "I often wonder who didn’t love Donald Trump. I often wonder who left an affection void that he has tried to fill by winning attention, which is not the same thing. He’s turned his life into a marketing strategy. As Michael Cohen said in his testimony on Wednesday, even the presidential campaign was a marketing campaign to build the Trump brand.In turning himself into a brand he’s turned himself into a human shell, so brittle and gilded that there is no place for people close to him to attach. His desperate attempts to be loved have made him unable to receive love.Imagine what your own life would be like if you had no love in it, if you were just using people and being used. Trump, personifying the worst elements in our culture, is like a providentially sent gong meant to wake us up and direct us toward a better path…..Getting arrested seems to have been a good education for Cohen. He now realizes that Trump will not provide him with the sustenance he needs. I believe that Cohen basically told the truth in his testimony on Wednesday, but I don’t believe that he is a changed man…….Cohen has left the Thugs for Trump club and passed that baton to certain House Republicans. I would have loved to have been in the strategy session when the House Republicans decided to be incurious about Trump’s sins and crimes but to rip the skin off Cohen.Normal people have moral sentiments. Normal people are repulsed when the president of their own nation lies, cheats, practices bigotry, allegedly pays off porn star mistresses. Were Republican House members enthusiastic or morose as they decided to turn off their own moral circuits, when they decided to be monumentally unconcerned by the fact that their leader may be a moral cretin?
It would be interesting, once people compute how much Trump has underpaid in taxes, to then see how long a stretch of Trump’s vanity wall would be able to be paid for if he finally reimbursed the nation for what he owes.
DD Wiz Premium Member about 5 years ago
Michael Cohen’s warning to the TrumpubliCON inquisitors rings true: they are doing exactly what got him in so much trouble — covering up for Trump. And we have to keep reminding everyone: Cohen pled guilty for lying to Congress. The lie he got convicted for telling was to say that TRUMP HAD DONE NOTHING WRONG.
Republicans keep saying that Cohen is a rat (which is true).
But he was TRUMP’s rat. Trump is the one who hired Cohen and so many, many other rats, while bragging that he hires “only the best people.”
And same for the RepubliCON National Committee (RNC) who now judges him so harshly: THEY HIRED HIM AS THEIR DEPUTY FINANCE CHAIRMAN.
Cohen is a long-time hired liar, thug and mobster. But mobster thugs can be valued witnesses when they turn state’s evidence, with the promise that they can receive lenience ONLY if they tell the truth and can corroborate it with supporting evidence and documents.
Cohen already has a three-year sentence hanging over his head for the crimes to which he pled guilty. His only chance to reduce it is to tell the truth. And as he has already learned, lying to congress sends you to jail. If he does it again, he will not only lose any chance to reduce his three-year sentence, he will get a whole new sentence for a whole new crime.
That is why mobster thugs, and Michael Cohen, can be trusted.
The only lifeline they have is to tell the truth and provide documents and evidence, and Cohen is bringing checks, financial documents AND TAPES.
feverjr Premium Member about 5 years ago
Daeder about 5 years ago
It’s hilarious to hear Republicans protest so loudly about not being able to trust a liar.
Jason Allen about 5 years ago
That’s a little harsh. The congressional GOP isn’t a mob-like fixer for Trump. It’s a mob-like fixer for corporations. They’re just using Trump to further their own goals. The moment he stops being useful, they’ll kick him to the curb like yesterday’s trash.
Zev about 5 years ago
Yeah, he’s a mob-like fixer for a mob-like orange capo. What of it?
Masterskrain Premium Member about 5 years ago
Seriously, has the G.O.P.’s BLATANT HYPOCRISY EVER been more fully displayed then over the last couple of days??
Remember, in the next election, you have a choice. You can vote for the Candidate that BELIEVES in the U.S. Constitution and the Rule Of Law, OR you can vote for the Republican Candidate. THAT’S your choice.
superposition about 5 years ago
There is something hideously wrong when a conservative group morphs into an anti-conservative, anti-democratic, anti-republican, anti-US-Constitution bent on excluding the vast majority of citizens from having a voice in Congress or court and derisively calls themselves Republicans when their agenda is overtly authoritarian counting heavily on bias, fear, anger and tons of misinformation. How much longer will real Americans allow these scoundrels to the defame the name of a once honorable conservative political party that once worked with progressives to create moderate legislation that everyone could live/prosper with?
NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 5 years ago
Mr Jordan should know.
Darsan54 Premium Member about 5 years ago
Nailed it.
Radish the wordsmith about 5 years ago
“Liar, liar, pants on fire,” is apparently official Republican policy.
Dani Rice about 5 years ago
DD Whiz recommended an excellent book, which I’d advise everybody to either purchase or get from the library and read! “Everything Trump Touches Dies” was written by Rick Wilson, who was a Republican political strategist and media consultant. This man knows the Trump Machine inside and out. He predicted Cohen’s downfall, and has some sobering things to say about the Republicans and the fate of America.
Godfreydaniel about 5 years ago
As idiotic as the members of the modern Republican party have become (trying, desperately, and mostly successfully, to drag themselves down to the depths of the Trump Dunce), the funniest thing of all was their insistence that Cohen (like Trump, a proven liar) was lying in his testimony. People, people (and also you members of the Republican party), you know who was watching that testimony, besides the rest of the world? ROBERT MUELLER. If members of Congress are getting sick and tired of Cohen, after a few days of testimony, imagine how sick and tired of Cohen Mueller’s Crimebusting team is! The point? IF Cohen lied to this Congressional committee, that is a felony. And, the Crimebusters were watching and comparing and contrasting all the hundreds of hours of testimony Cohen gave to THEM. Talk about the most DISincentive to lie to a bunch of little kids pretending to be Republican legislators…….
Ally2005 about 5 years ago
The GOP loved Cohen when he was lying for their hero Trump. Now they despise him for telling the truth. Trump and the GOP mob deserve each other.
Godfreydaniel about 5 years ago
Conservative pundit David Brooks: "I often wonder who didn’t love Donald Trump. I often wonder who left an affection void that he has tried to fill by winning attention, which is not the same thing. He’s turned his life into a marketing strategy. As Michael Cohen said in his testimony on Wednesday, even the presidential campaign was a marketing campaign to build the Trump brand.In turning himself into a brand he’s turned himself into a human shell, so brittle and gilded that there is no place for people close to him to attach. His desperate attempts to be loved have made him unable to receive love.Imagine what your own life would be like if you had no love in it, if you were just using people and being used. Trump, personifying the worst elements in our culture, is like a providentially sent gong meant to wake us up and direct us toward a better path…..Getting arrested seems to have been a good education for Cohen. He now realizes that Trump will not provide him with the sustenance he needs. I believe that Cohen basically told the truth in his testimony on Wednesday, but I don’t believe that he is a changed man…….Cohen has left the Thugs for Trump club and passed that baton to certain House Republicans. I would have loved to have been in the strategy session when the House Republicans decided to be incurious about Trump’s sins and crimes but to rip the skin off Cohen.Normal people have moral sentiments. Normal people are repulsed when the president of their own nation lies, cheats, practices bigotry, allegedly pays off porn star mistresses. Were Republican House members enthusiastic or morose as they decided to turn off their own moral circuits, when they decided to be monumentally unconcerned by the fact that their leader may be a moral cretin?
Ontman about 5 years ago
Thus has it been for a while now with the GOP.
Scoutmaster77 about 5 years ago
If the shoe fits…
Bookworm about 5 years ago
Mr. Pot, please meet Mr. Kettle. Mr. Kettle, this is Mr. Pot. Oh, you know each other? How nice.
SukieCrandall Premium Member about 5 years ago
It would be interesting, once people compute how much Trump has underpaid in taxes, to then see how long a stretch of Trump’s vanity wall would be able to be paid for if he finally reimbursed the nation for what he owes.
pamela welch Premium Member about 5 years ago
SNAP! Most Excellent Rob ♥
kaffekup about 5 years ago
I mean, it’s not like he was deputy finance chairman for the RNC as well as fixer for trump or anything, is it?
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 5 years ago
What disease do Michael Cohen and Kim Jong Un have in common?
KevinSheridan about 5 years ago
See: Henry Hillhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hill