COHEN PLEADS GUILTY AND IMPLICATES TRUMP

By artappraiser on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 3:27pm |

Edit: GO TO COMMENTS FOR UPDATED NEWS; the below was the first breaking with my old headline: Michael Cohen Surrenders to the FBI; Plea Deal (Twitter thread):

I will remember where I was on this day https://t.co/bwRN8fi9nj
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) August 21, 2018

Cross link to earlier thread: COHEN, TRUMP’S EX-LAWYER, BEING INVESTIGATED FOR BANK FRAUD IN EXCESS OF $20 MILLION

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https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1031973955341434880

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He may not be. But it’s the part that Trump’s folks are watching. https://t.co/BhiD25lKth
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 21, 2018

Again - watch the campaign finance piece https://t.co/Q5JkUqS2wV
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 21, 2018

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 3:33pm

Cohen agreed to a deal after prosecutors claimed he risked more than a dozen years in prison, one person told The Post https://t.co/pGFcD3NzBQ
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 21, 2018

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 3:34pm

Update @ CNN. Headline COHEN PLEADS GUILTY AND IMPLICATES TRUMP

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 6:15pm

OMG somehow Brennan got to Cohen and enlisted him in the criminal deep state conspiracy to take down Trump. Not only that Brennan subverted the Manafort jury to get a guilty verdict. I wonder how long it will take to see those jurors perp walked and charged with crimes for participating in the witch hunt.

by ocean-kat on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 6:56pm

Rudy responds: "There is no allegation of any wrongdoing against the President in the government's charges against Mr. Cohen. It is clear that, as the prosecutor noted, Mr. Cohen's actions reflect a pattern of lies and dishonesty over a significant period of time.”
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 21, 2018

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 6:31pm

Best people. Be best.

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 6:34pm

Is bad for The Donald https://t.co/yx1H2Y11vo
— Rogue Melania (@RogueFirstLady) August 21, 2018

Rudy Giuliani, 1998: “... I think the president has to be treated like everyone else because I think under the criminal law everyone should be treated the same.” pic.twitter.com/L7sNHt87mr
— Rogue Melania (@RogueFirstLady) August 21, 2018

Manafort and the Cohen at same time...I no believe in coincidence. #MuellerIsGood
— Rogue Melania (@RogueFirstLady) August 21, 2018

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 6:41pm

"Cohen 8 counts, Manaflirt 8 counts. Coincidence? It like they do reach around hand job" - Rogue Melania

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 6:57pm

We. Are. Coming. We are going to end this dumpster fire of a presidency one way or another. https://t.co/URJXR0aehx
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) August 21, 2018

The developments of today will permit us to have the stay lifted in the civil case & should also permit us to proceed with an expedited deposition of Trump under oath about what he knew, when he knew it, and what he did about it. We will disclose it all to the public.
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) August 21, 2018

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 6:33pm

I am seldom stunned. But I am.
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) August 21, 2018

It’s law day
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) August 21, 2018

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 6:35pm

BIG DAY: We have learned that we have a criminal President of the United States, who was elected by deceiving the American people. And a man who does not respect the foundation of our nation — the rule of law.
— John Dean (@JohnWDean) August 21, 2018

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 7:03pm

On CNN TV just now White House correspondent April Ryan said that White House people and Trump's legal team are freaking out worrying about what Trump will say tonight at his West Virginia rally. She also noted that Trump took a quick press opportunity to say sympathetic things about Manafort but said zero about Cohen.

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 7:08pm

Maggie just tweeted similar thoughts:

Trump folks are worried about impeachment more than before. The thinking goes like this: this is something tangible, not a theoretical. And it didn't come from Mueller. Does not mean it will happen, but this has moved to a different stage in their minds.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 21, 2018

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 7:35pm

more thoughts from Maggie, just now:

Important and/but on predictions of how this will play politically - Trump when cornered can be at his most dangerous, according to ppl who know him well. And the day after Access Hollywood tape, Ryan and Heller were booed for voicing any distance from Trump.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 21, 2018

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 7:45pm

Haberman followed the above tweet up this morning with a fair amount of activity

Including this direct reply to one of Trump's tweets; replying directly to him is something she does not do very often:

Prosecutors would not have accepted Cohen's plea if they didn't believe his information was truthful. https://t.co/1Xn6too3It
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 22, 2018

Looking over the other tweets and the article she co-authored today with Baker and Landler, all together, I get the impression she is thinking he's getting extra delusional within his loyal bubble as the impeachment word is becoming more real to a bigger world

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/22/2018 - 2:06pm

she's really riding him today, this is unusual:

"That Teflon has exploded all over the place." President Trump 20 years ago in re Lewinsky https://t.co/SJIQrMxoug
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 22, 2018

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/22/2018 - 3:23pm

Omarosa on it! Will not be left out of the feeding frenzy!

Omarosa shares video of Cohen boarding Trump plane in 2016

BY MICHAEL BURKE @ TheHill.com, 08/21/18 07:32 PM EDT

I suspect she has all her tapes cross filed by keywords in order to pop them at the appropriate moment? She's a way savvier p.r. person than Trump, first offering Mueller anything he wanted, of course.

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 7:42pm

Jennifer Rubin @ WaPo: Michael Cohen: Trump’s greatest fear comes true

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 8:06pm

And within it, these prophetic words (my bold):

Constitutional scholar Larry Tribe tells me, “Whether or not called an unindicted co-conspirator, that’s what the sitting president IS as of close of business today, Aug. 21, 2018, a day that will live in legal infamy.” He explains, “That’s the import of two of Michael Cohen’s guilty pleas on charges of making knowingly illegal campaign contributions at Trump’s behest in the form of hush money to keep his sex scandals quiet as the election date approached.” He adds that with the conviction of Trump’s campaign chair, Paul Manafort, on eight counts, “the only possible conclusion is that this criminal administration is coming unglued.”

by barefooted on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 11:59pm

Trump rally crowd chants "lock her up" as Manafort and Cohen face jail. That’s our political moment in a nutshell. https://t.co/A7fKDg2vOG
— Vox (@voxdotcom) August 22, 2018

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 8:10pm

p.s. actually I think, Trump fans care more about this story than the Trump swamp issues of the day, which happens to be the headline @ Breitbart right now

Illegal Alien Charged with First Degree Murder of Mollie Tibbetts ‘Blacked Out,’ Left Her in Corn Field

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 8:22pm

Hillary will go down as some mythical figure dragged out through the ages, slowly (quickly) morphing into Medusa or Baba Yaga, or the hated enemy up on the screen for 1984 moments of hate.

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 08/22/2018 - 2:01am

lol!

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/22/2018 - 2:07am

Michael Cohen has information about the president for Robert Mueller, his lawyer Lanny Davis just told @Maddow on MSNBC.

Quoting Davis in full: pic.twitter.com/TQYH0oSFEe
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August 22, 2018

by Michael Wolraich on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 10:32pm

"...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."

by Michael Wolraich on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 10:35pm

But, you know, no collusion...

by Michael Wolraich on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 10:36pm

oh yez (oyez, oyez!?) thank you. I notice the same reporter just tweeted a chart showing how at a Dec. 12 sentencing hearing that Cohen could be facing 65 years in prison max. Left unsaid but maybe implied: if between now and then Mr. Cohen shows himself to be an ideally helpful citizen and has a smart attorney advising him, he might avoid many of those years.

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 11:12pm

also comes to mind a Politico story I posted just a few hours ago somewhere that said yesterday Mueller asked for further delay for the Flynn sentencing

Tuesday’s filing indicates that Mueller’s team could believe Flynn has more information that is useful to the investigation, or that sentencing hearings might reveal parts of the investigation that Mueller would like to keep under wraps.

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 11:39pm

The goalposts have been moved to a Pep Boys parking lot 35 miles outside the stadium https://t.co/VuG82PUmlL
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) August 22, 2018

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/22/2018 - 1:30am

I suspect SpaceForce's primary mission will be to move them to another planet.

Seriously, there have to be some Fox News indictments coming at some point - they're too much part of the story.

Strangely enough, the Post isn't covering for Trump...

https://nypost.com/2018/08/21/cohen-willing-to-tell-mueller-about-conspi...

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 08/22/2018 - 2:18am

Wait what. https://t.co/aCsn1WX49B
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) August 22, 2018

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/22/2018 - 3:09am

Nancy Pelosi tells @AP that impeaching Trump is "not a priority" for Democrats despite the Cohen/Manafort news.https://t.co/kgJ0b1B2ih pic.twitter.com/pM2DwCrkpX
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August 22, 2018

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/22/2018 - 3:21pm

Perhaps Pelosi et. al are looking at stuff like this?

Per Navigator (D):

33% trust congressional Dems more to reduce gov corruption; 29% trust GOP more. (By contrast, Ds have a 13-pt lead on helping working class)

So, at any rate, not an issue that Dems have yet successfully made a calling card.https://t.co/YUT4MsXm6u
— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) August 22, 2018

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/22/2018 - 4:36pm

more on the Pelosi "don't stress impeachment" thing:

As Michael Cohen was pleading guilty in a federal court to campaign charges implicating the president, House Democratic leaders were on a conference call warning rank-and-file: Don't use the word "impeachment." Here’s why. W/⁦@BresPolitico⁩ https://t.co/LyuLerUpd5
— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) August 22, 2018

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/22/2018 - 9:36pm

Trump on Cohen's payments to women: "They didn't come out of the campaign. They came from me.” https://t.co/n783BHuxQx
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 22, 2018

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/22/2018 - 3:25pm

I didn’t know about the money until much later

The money came from me not the campaign

by rmrd0000 on Wed, 08/22/2018 - 4:31pm

White House anonymice told Haberman & Rogers today that he is weirdly calm and it was he who decided to go do the Fox interview:

[....] advisers who admitted they had no strategy for countering the news that Mr. Trump’s former fixer, Michael D. Cohen, had admitted in federal court that Mr. Trump directed him to arrange payments to two women during the 2016 campaign to silence them from talking publicly about affairs they said they had with Mr. Trump. Nor was there a plan, according to interviews with half a dozen current and former aides, to put a spin on the conviction of Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s former campaign manager, on eight counts of financial fraud.

The only option was to follow Mr. Trump’s lead. The president, returning to a well-worn tactic of scouring media reports for any opportunity that would allow him to seize the news cycle again, decided not to cancel a planned sit-down with Fox News on Wednesday.

[....] this time, advisers noticed that the president, a man who has in the past relished the idea of leading his troops into political battle, seemed subdued. He appeared to realize the serious nature of what had just taken place, and yet his relative calm — contrasted with his more typical lashing out when he is anxious — unnerved some of his aides [....]

from ‘How Did We End Up Here?’ Trump Wonders as the White House Soldiers On

By Maggie Haberman and Katie Rogers @ NYTimes.com, Aug. 22, 2018

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/22/2018 - 9:09pm

Which events? Which conduct? Which individuals? Are there are any further implications? Find out on the next episode on "Carefully Worded Tweets" https://t.co/z6Ynvcx30y
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) August 22, 2018

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/22/2018 - 3:59pm

BREAKING: New York state investigators have issued a subpoena to Michael Cohen as part of Trump Foundation probe.
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 22, 2018

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/22/2018 - 4:04pm

Lanny Davis forced to make corrections:

NY Post outed Davis for anonymously pushing bad info re Cohen earlier this week https://t.co/7VIGG24wvU
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 26, 2018

by artappraiser on Sun, 08/26/2018 - 8:23pm

The Lanny Davis problem is getting weird, CNN is basically saying his new walkback is the lie, and the orginal story the truth and legal experts are just guessing what it's all about:

Legal experts say Davis' walk back could damage Cohen's ability to cooperate further with investigators such as Robert Mueller https://t.co/yWWvIwXaQK https://t.co/V2CY4erCw8
— Allan Smith (@akarl_smith) August 28, 2018

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/29/2018 - 4:01am

Carl Bernstein replies to Trump about CNN story:

.@realdonaIdtrump- I have spent my life as a journalist bringing the truth to light, through administrations of both parties. No taunt will diminish my commitment to that mission, which is the essential role of a free press. @CNN stands by its story, and I stand by my reporting.
— Carl Bernstein (@carlbernstein) August 30, 2018

CNN is being torn apart from within based on their being caught in a major lie and refusing to admit the mistake. Sloppy @carlbernstein, a man who lives in the past and thinks like a degenerate fool, making up story after story, is being laughed at all over the country! Fake News
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 29, 2018

by artappraiser on Thu, 08/30/2018 - 2:01am

CNN is being torn apart from within based on their being caught in a major lie and refusing to admit the mistake. Sloppy Donald Trump, a man who lives in the past and thinks like a degenerate fool, making up story after story, is being laughed at all over the country! Fake News.

Ain't projection great?

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 08/30/2018 - 3:55am

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