CBS News This Morning just missed the best Chyron. It said 'The President's Felons'. It was missing one word: All.
So, you see, whatever value Cohen actually had, he also has the value of shifting the narrative if only slightly. Trump' s former personal attorney is calling him out as a horrible, stupid person. The media is rather forced to report on it.
It won't shift the hardcore 37%, but they aren't the targets. Not for the next few months, anyway.
CBS News This Morning just missed the best Chyron. It said 'The President's Felons'. It was missing one word: All.
So, you see, whatever value Cohen actually had, he also has the value of shifting the narrative if only slightly. Trump' s former personal attorney is calling him out as a horrible, stupid person. The media is rather forced to report on it.
It won't shift the hardcore 37%, but they aren't the targets. Not for the next few months, anyway.
Don’t worry, the New York Daily News had your back:
Hannity handouts, give me those lurid details. Who did he need Cohen to pay off. Muller has tons of evidence on Trump, but dismantling the conservative mouthpieces is a necessary part of getting things right again.
Trump: Michael Cohen plead guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime. President Obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily settled!
Campaign Finance Violations are not crimes. UNLESS YOU'RE OBAMA.
I’ve been seeing that “Michael Cohen admitted to violating laws he didn’t violate!” thing doing the rounds all morning, long before Trump tweeted about it. I haven’t looked into it yet, but I’m assuming it’s the usual sort of spin from someone on Fox News or something.
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I'm probably late to the party but I woke up to Cohen's lawyer on NPR saying in no uncertain terms that crimes were committed by candidate Trump. It was an interesting interview.
"He has not pled guilty to a crime, but his own lawyers have described him directing somebody to do something that is a criminal act — which is to hush up his affairs with two women," Davis says. "And that's not what this is about: It's about his hushing up those affairs in order to influence the outcome of an election."
The major sticking point for the FEC appeared to be a series of missing 48-hour notices for nearly 1,300 contributions totaling more than $1.8 million — an issue that lawyers familiar with the commission’s work say the FEC takes seriously. The notices must be filed on contributions of $1,000 or more that are received within the 20-day window of Election Day.
More than half of those contributions were transferred from the Obama Victory Fund,a joint committee between the campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Sources said the fine resulting from the settlement agreement has been paid, with $230,000 coming from the Obama campaign’s coffers and the remainder from the DNC.
The document outlined other violations, such as erroneous contribution dates on some campaign reports. The Obama campaign was also late returning some contributions that exceeded the legal limit.
Nothing suggests Obama was responsible or that they were knowing violations.
The major sticking point for the FEC appeared to be a series of missing 48-hour notices for nearly 1,300 contributions totaling more than $1.8 million — an issue that lawyers familiar with the commission’s work say the FEC takes seriously. The notices must be filed on contributions of $1,000 or more that are received within the 20-day window of Election Day.
More than half of those contributions were transferred from the Obama Victory Fund,a joint committee between the campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Sources said the fine resulting from the settlement agreement has been paid, with $230,000 coming from the Obama campaign’s coffers and the remainder from the DNC.
The document outlined other violations, such as erroneous contribution dates on some campaign reports. The Obama campaign was also late returning some contributions that exceeded the legal limit.
Nothing suggests Obama was responsible or that they were knowing violations.
not to mention they paid for the violations regardless
As has often been quoted by the Pod (Save America) Bros, 'it's not the crime, it's the cover-up'.
Hell, they've also speculated (in the past) that it's possible that Trump (and/or his team) could have committed obstruction of justice over things that aren't actually crimes.
I think we're past the point of believing he hasn't done anything criminal (easy there, hot takers, I know, I know), but at least from their perspective (and insight I've come to trust so far), the 'whataboutism' falls so very flat, doubly so while they're apparently busy committing ALL THE CRIMES.
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First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER!
Trump: Michael Cohen plead guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime. President Obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily settled!
Campaign Finance Violations are not crimes. UNLESS YOU'RE OBAMA.
The pertinent distinction here is that in past cases the defense argued that third party expenditures to, say, mistresses, were not to help the campaign; and the state failed to prove they were.
I’ve been seeing that “Michael Cohen admitted to violating laws he didn’t violate!” thing doing the rounds all morning, long before Trump tweeted about it. I haven’t looked into it yet, but I’m assuming it’s the usual sort of spin from someone on Fox News or something.
Of course it is. Trump is never an active initiator of this shit. He's not in control of the conservative media bubble, he's a passive consumer of it.
I’ve been seeing that “Michael Cohen admitted to violating laws he didn’t violate!” thing doing the rounds all morning, long before Trump tweeted about it. I haven’t looked into it yet, but I’m assuming it’s the usual sort of spin from someone on Fox News or something.
Yeah, SDNY has already stated Cohen was admitting to things they had other evidence of. It wasn't a spontaneous admission. They knew, he knew they knew, they knew he knew they knew, so he took a plea.
It must feel pretty good to be vindicated after having your name run through the mud and constantly called a liar by men who get the benefit of the doubt through the circumstances of their birth
Stormy Daniels is one of the two women Donald Trump and Michael Cohen illegally paid off prior to the 2016 election
I still don't like her. None of this is altruistic on her part. It's about money, knowing she can make even more money making noise about it now than she did keeping quiet about it. It serves a purpose, but still, fuck Stormy Daniels. If she'd told the world instead of being a $130k hooker in 2016, we wouldn't be here right now.
I still don't like her. None of this is altruistic on her part. It's about money, knowing she can make even more money making noise about it now than she did keeping quiet about it. It serves a purpose, but still, fuck Stormy Daniels. If she'd told the world instead of being a $130k hooker in 2016, we wouldn't be here right now.
If she had been physically threatened as she says, I can believe she would keep quiet until she got proper legal help. But until then, her own lawyer was conspiring with Cohen to keep her mouth shut.
She was up against the fucking mob. Cut her some slack.
I still don't like her. None of this is altruistic on her part. It's about money, knowing she can make even more money making noise about it now than she did keeping quiet about it. It serves a purpose, but still, fuck Stormy Daniels. If she'd told the world instead of being a $130k hooker in 2016, we wouldn't be here right now.
If she had been physically threatened as she says, I can believe she would keep quiet until she got proper legal help. But until then, her own lawyer was conspiring with Cohen to keep her mouth shut.
She was up against the fucking mob. Cut her some slack.
Also calling someone a "hooker" as an insult for taking payment for her story is fucking gross dude.
She likely took the money because like everyone she thought Trump would lose so it didn't matter and after he didn't she wanted to talk about the issue. And also it's become fairly clear she got fucking cheated by Cohen on the NDA thing, given who was supposedly representing her interests in the case.
If they were able to threaten her into keeping quiet they wouldn't have paid her $130k. I literally don't believe anything anyone on either side of this story is saying.
It is indeed worth remembering that her legal help (who was supposed to be looking out for her best interests), was actually working with Trump the whole time.
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So, you see, whatever value Cohen actually had, he also has the value of shifting the narrative if only slightly. Trump' s former personal attorney is calling him out as a horrible, stupid person. The media is rather forced to report on it.
It won't shift the hardcore 37%, but they aren't the targets. Not for the next few months, anyway.
Don’t worry, the New York Daily News had your back:
Hahahahaha!
Donald Trump is currently the President.
Alternatively, what if I’m looking for a criminal lawyer?
Fixed that for you, asshole.
He got caught basically the first time anyone bothered to look, so he wasn't great at that either.
The republic is burning, but I love a good zinger. Good one tiny hands!
he is demonstrably a bad criminal lawyer
I'm going to call it, I think this may be trumps best tweet ever. I strongly suspect it was ghostwritten.
The first Trump tweet I actually agree with
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The president of the United states of America shit talking his shit attorney for blabbing to the feds like we're aren't all seeing this shit.
Like I don't think that was meant to be ironic...i don't think the president is self aware enough to be making the joke about how fucked he might be.
It reads like a parody account tweet
Neil Peart can’t play swing?
I... what.
Does he not understand what settlements are?
Campaign Finance Violations are not crimes. UNLESS YOU'RE OBAMA.
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/22/640795902/michael-cohens-lawyer-says-hed-never-accept-a-pardon-from-president-trump
https://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/obama-2008-campaign-fined-375000-085784 Nothing suggests Obama was responsible or that they were knowing violations.
not to mention they paid for the violations regardless
Hell, they've also speculated (in the past) that it's possible that Trump (and/or his team) could have committed obstruction of justice over things that aren't actually crimes.
I think we're past the point of believing he hasn't done anything criminal (easy there, hot takers, I know, I know), but at least from their perspective (and insight I've come to trust so far), the 'whataboutism' falls so very flat, doubly so while they're apparently busy committing ALL THE CRIMES.
The pertinent distinction here is that in past cases the defense argued that third party expenditures to, say, mistresses, were not to help the campaign; and the state failed to prove they were.
Cohen flat out admits it.
Of course it is. Trump is never an active initiator of this shit. He's not in control of the conservative media bubble, he's a passive consumer of it.
Yeah, SDNY has already stated Cohen was admitting to things they had other evidence of. It wasn't a spontaneous admission. They knew, he knew they knew, they knew he knew they knew, so he took a plea.
It must feel pretty good to be vindicated after having your name run through the mud and constantly called a liar by men who get the benefit of the doubt through the circumstances of their birth
Stormy Daniels is one of the two women Donald Trump and Michael Cohen illegally paid off prior to the 2016 election
If she had been physically threatened as she says, I can believe she would keep quiet until she got proper legal help. But until then, her own lawyer was conspiring with Cohen to keep her mouth shut.
She was up against the fucking mob. Cut her some slack.
Also calling someone a "hooker" as an insult for taking payment for her story is fucking gross dude.
She likely took the money because like everyone she thought Trump would lose so it didn't matter and after he didn't she wanted to talk about the issue. And also it's become fairly clear she got fucking cheated by Cohen on the NDA thing, given who was supposedly representing her interests in the case.