Michael Cohen Testimony
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2019 Feb 27, 7:31am 5,987 views 65 comments
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Looks like its about everything BUT Russia. They must have told this scumbag lawyer youll be ass pounded, if you don't put up a good show. He lied to congress and is doing time for it and is now up again wtf.
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anonymous
2019 Feb 28, 5:12pm
John Dean, the former attorney for President Richard M. Nixon who was dubbed the “master manipulator” of the Watergate scandal by the FBI, noticed one thing Republican lawmakers didn’t do on Wednesday.
As they questioned Michael Cohen, the disgraced former attorney for President Donald Trump, “they didn’t defend the president,” Dean told CNN’s Don Lemon.
“What they did is attack the witness,” Dean said. “That shows a certain weakness and it also showed a lot of concern by Republicans.”
Republicans questioning Cohen “had nothing to offer in defense of the president’s character,” Dean said.
Like Cohen, Dean was a member of the president’s inner circle. He also turned on his onetime boss and cooperated with prosecutors.
Last year, he noted another similarity between himself and Cohen.
“When I became a witness, there was a huge effort to discredit me,” Dean said at the time. “It was just my word against Nixon’s until the tape came out, and they worked mightily to try to discredit me.”
The real difference between Nixon and Trump is that Nixon got elected to the House in '46 , the US Senate in ' 50 , The VP in '52 where he served until '60 and the Presidency in '68 where he was re-elected in '72.
During his time in Office Nixon made a lot of powerful friends and political allies .
Trump doesn't have that political history
So when Trump's friends were asked to stand up for him , we discovered that he didn't have any
GOP members railed against DNC members and railed against Cohen. But I cannot recall words of defense for Trump. Not explicitly.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/watergate-master-manipulator-spots-republicans-100853055.html
As they questioned Michael Cohen, the disgraced former attorney for President Donald Trump, “they didn’t defend the president,” Dean told CNN’s Don Lemon.
“What they did is attack the witness,” Dean said. “That shows a certain weakness and it also showed a lot of concern by Republicans.”
Republicans questioning Cohen “had nothing to offer in defense of the president’s character,” Dean said.
Like Cohen, Dean was a member of the president’s inner circle. He also turned on his onetime boss and cooperated with prosecutors.
Last year, he noted another similarity between himself and Cohen.
“When I became a witness, there was a huge effort to discredit me,” Dean said at the time. “It was just my word against Nixon’s until the tape came out, and they worked mightily to try to discredit me.”
The real difference between Nixon and Trump is that Nixon got elected to the House in '46 , the US Senate in ' 50 , The VP in '52 where he served until '60 and the Presidency in '68 where he was re-elected in '72.
During his time in Office Nixon made a lot of powerful friends and political allies .
Trump doesn't have that political history
So when Trump's friends were asked to stand up for him , we discovered that he didn't have any
GOP members railed against DNC members and railed against Cohen. But I cannot recall words of defense for Trump. Not explicitly.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/watergate-master-manipulator-spots-republicans-100853055.html
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RC2006
2019 Feb 28, 5:48pm
RC2006
2019 Feb 28, 5:48pm
Kakistocracy says
That is because they can't stand him as much as the Dems, he isn't playing by thier rules. Like the dems most Republican scum want to keep making a quick buck exporting jobs, not doing anything about our immigration problems, and in general fucking over the middle class.
“they didn’t defend the president,”
That is because they can't stand him as much as the Dems, he isn't playing by thier rules. Like the dems most Republican scum want to keep making a quick buck exporting jobs, not doing anything about our immigration problems, and in general fucking over the middle class.
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MisdemeanorRebel
2019 Feb 28, 5:52pm
MisdemeanorRebel
2019 Feb 28, 5:52pm
Seems General Flynn sure did, for one.
Of course, the McCarthyism of the Media makes sure anybody who supports Trump has their career ruined.
Of course, the McCarthyism of the Media makes sure anybody who supports Trump has their career ruined.
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anonymous
2019 Mar 2, 2:59am
The GOP's Strange Hypocrisy With Know Liars - Trump, Cohen and the paradox of believing proven liars
Throughout Michael Cohen’s testimony this week before the House Oversight Committee, Republicans repeated what would seem to be a simple rule of human nature: Never trust a person who has been proven to be a liar.
“I want everyone in this room to think about this, the first announced witness for the 116th Congress is a guy who is going to prison in two months for lying to Congress,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said in his opening remarks.
But as more Republicans on the committee followed Jordan’s lead, that strategy quickly hit a wall.
You’re a pathological liar. You don’t know truth from falsehood,” Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz, scolded Cohen, who then swiftly turned the tables on his interrogators.
“Sir, I’m sorry, are you referring to me or the president?” Cohen asked with a boyish grin.
Therein lies a paradox for the Republican Party. They distrust the fixer who lied to protect the president, but trust the president who himself has been shown to have difficulties telling the truth
By the Washington Post’s count, as of Feb. 17, Trump has made 8,718 “false or misleading claims” while in office. One of the more glaring untruths was revealed by the New York Times on Thursday, showing that Trump had apparently misled the paper when asked directly whether he had intervened in any way to secure a top-level security clearance for his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner.
“I was never involved in the security,” Trump told the paper just weeks ago when asked about his involvement.
That claim was laid bare after the Times learned about two contemporaneous memos written last May. One written by Trump’s former chief of staff, retired Gen. John Kelly, and the other by former White House counsel Don McGahn, detailed how Trump had personally ordered that Kushner be granted the security clearance despite objections by the CIA and others in government.
Whether it be Trump’s changing explanation for a meeting between members of his presidential campaign — including Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and his son, Don Jr. — and a Russian lawyer, or his insistence to reporters on Air Force One that he never knew that Cohen had paid hush money to Daniels (checks presented this week by his former lawyer for the repayment of a debt undercut that notion), the president’s own claims would seem to merit more than a touch of skepticism.
But trust, it turns out, is a partisan sport. And the Democrats were caught in their own truth dilemma this week by choosing to believe that Cohen, who begins a three-year prison term in May, in part for lying to Congress, was finally coming clean when speaking ill of Trump.
“I believe he told the truth,” committee chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., told reporters at the conclusion of Cohen’s marathon grilling.
While asking liars to tell the truth carries self-evident risks, in the matter of Robert Mueller’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, it would seem to be the only option. Mind you, for a skilled prosecutor, the truth is out there, and in this case it involves talking to a whole lot of liars to find it.
Manafort, for instance, was convicted of eight felonies, including multiple counts of tax and bank fraud. In addition, Robert Mueller laid out his case that Manafort breached his cooperation deal by lying about his interactions with Konstantin Kilimnik, a Ukrainian-Russian political consultant.
Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign adviser, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about searching in the 2016 presidential election for Russian “dirt” on Hillary Clinton that could aid Trump.
Roger Stone, a longtime Trump adviser, has been indicted by Mueller’s office on one count of obstruction, one count of witness tampering and five counts of making false statements.
That Trump has surrounded himself with this cast of characters may help explain why the president spends so much time decrying “fake news.” If no one can be trusted to tell the truth, after all, then why bother worrying about the coverage of Cohen’s testimony, the Mueller investigation or whether Trump intervened on behalf of his son-in-law obtaining a security clearance?
Though this week’s events on Capitol Hill confirmed that we may never solve what philosophers call the liar paradox, we can at least be sure that if it applies to one liar, it should apply to all.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-cohen-paradox-believing-proven-liars-210518118.html
Throughout Michael Cohen’s testimony this week before the House Oversight Committee, Republicans repeated what would seem to be a simple rule of human nature: Never trust a person who has been proven to be a liar.
“I want everyone in this room to think about this, the first announced witness for the 116th Congress is a guy who is going to prison in two months for lying to Congress,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said in his opening remarks.
But as more Republicans on the committee followed Jordan’s lead, that strategy quickly hit a wall.
You’re a pathological liar. You don’t know truth from falsehood,” Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz, scolded Cohen, who then swiftly turned the tables on his interrogators.
“Sir, I’m sorry, are you referring to me or the president?” Cohen asked with a boyish grin.
Therein lies a paradox for the Republican Party. They distrust the fixer who lied to protect the president, but trust the president who himself has been shown to have difficulties telling the truth
By the Washington Post’s count, as of Feb. 17, Trump has made 8,718 “false or misleading claims” while in office. One of the more glaring untruths was revealed by the New York Times on Thursday, showing that Trump had apparently misled the paper when asked directly whether he had intervened in any way to secure a top-level security clearance for his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner.
“I was never involved in the security,” Trump told the paper just weeks ago when asked about his involvement.
That claim was laid bare after the Times learned about two contemporaneous memos written last May. One written by Trump’s former chief of staff, retired Gen. John Kelly, and the other by former White House counsel Don McGahn, detailed how Trump had personally ordered that Kushner be granted the security clearance despite objections by the CIA and others in government.
Whether it be Trump’s changing explanation for a meeting between members of his presidential campaign — including Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and his son, Don Jr. — and a Russian lawyer, or his insistence to reporters on Air Force One that he never knew that Cohen had paid hush money to Daniels (checks presented this week by his former lawyer for the repayment of a debt undercut that notion), the president’s own claims would seem to merit more than a touch of skepticism.
But trust, it turns out, is a partisan sport. And the Democrats were caught in their own truth dilemma this week by choosing to believe that Cohen, who begins a three-year prison term in May, in part for lying to Congress, was finally coming clean when speaking ill of Trump.
“I believe he told the truth,” committee chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., told reporters at the conclusion of Cohen’s marathon grilling.
While asking liars to tell the truth carries self-evident risks, in the matter of Robert Mueller’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, it would seem to be the only option. Mind you, for a skilled prosecutor, the truth is out there, and in this case it involves talking to a whole lot of liars to find it.
Manafort, for instance, was convicted of eight felonies, including multiple counts of tax and bank fraud. In addition, Robert Mueller laid out his case that Manafort breached his cooperation deal by lying about his interactions with Konstantin Kilimnik, a Ukrainian-Russian political consultant.
Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign adviser, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about searching in the 2016 presidential election for Russian “dirt” on Hillary Clinton that could aid Trump.
Roger Stone, a longtime Trump adviser, has been indicted by Mueller’s office on one count of obstruction, one count of witness tampering and five counts of making false statements.
That Trump has surrounded himself with this cast of characters may help explain why the president spends so much time decrying “fake news.” If no one can be trusted to tell the truth, after all, then why bother worrying about the coverage of Cohen’s testimony, the Mueller investigation or whether Trump intervened on behalf of his son-in-law obtaining a security clearance?
Though this week’s events on Capitol Hill confirmed that we may never solve what philosophers call the liar paradox, we can at least be sure that if it applies to one liar, it should apply to all.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-cohen-paradox-believing-proven-liars-210518118.html
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MrMagic
2019 Mar 2, 10:04am
MrMagic
2019 Mar 2, 10:04am
Kakistocracy says
Speaking of liars, have you been able to find the answers to this question I asked earlier?
MrMagic says
@Kakistocracy
I'm sure it's a long list, right?
Though this week’s events on Capitol Hill confirmed that we may never solve what philosophers call the liar paradox, we can at least be sure that if it applies to one liar, it should apply to all.
Speaking of liars, have you been able to find the answers to this question I asked earlier?
MrMagic says
Kakistocracy saysStill posting quotes from a known liar under oath?
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Still ?
Cohen can't even place a respectable "show" in the liar category considering the competition - Potus, Sanders, Conway, Hannity, Carlson, Pence, Pompeo, Mnuchin, - the list is too long to finish
How many of them have lied under oath to Congress?? TWICE....
@Kakistocracy
I'm sure it's a long list, right?
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Tenpoundbass
2019 Mar 2, 11:28am
Tenpoundbass
2019 Mar 2, 11:28am
National Review!?!?(laughing so hard crapping my pants)
More TDS Crap
https://www.nationalreview.com/politics-policy/
More TDS Crap
https://www.nationalreview.com/politics-policy/
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Tenpoundbass
2019 Mar 2, 11:33am
Tenpoundbass
2019 Mar 2, 11:33am
Their take away from the Cohen Hearing, says Nothing New?
LOL Cohen said No Russian Collusion. The Bombshell he was hyping weeks before he was going to rat Trump out for Russia Collusion.
So there was something new and the National Review is just regurgitated Liberal TDS masquerading as something a Trump supporter would read. LOL You Silly Commie Kids, you crack me up!
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/takeaways-from-the-house-democrats-cohen-hearing/
LOL Cohen said No Russian Collusion. The Bombshell he was hyping weeks before he was going to rat Trump out for Russia Collusion.
So there was something new and the National Review is just regurgitated Liberal TDS masquerading as something a Trump supporter would read. LOL You Silly Commie Kids, you crack me up!
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/takeaways-from-the-house-democrats-cohen-hearing/
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Tenpoundbass
2019 Mar 2, 12:16pm
Tenpoundbass
2019 Mar 2, 12:16pm
You got you caught the Tater! What am I supposed to be on notice about?
65
AD
2019 Mar 20, 12:10pm
AD
2019 Mar 20, 12:10pm
RC2006 says
I am thinking Andrew Weismann's last gig was to threaten Cohen if he did not lie for Mueller.
Weismann tried this on other suspects and one by name of Jerome Corsi publicly came out and said he was essentially being pressured to lie for Mueller.
Mueller has to make his Democrat handlers happy and also to SAVE FACE. That includes vindicating to some extent his prodigy James Comey.
I think they'll keep this going all the way up to election day 2020.
Looks like its about everything BUT Russia. They must have told this scumbag lawyer youll be ass pounded, if you don't put up a good show. He lied to congress and is doing time for it and is now up again wtf.
I am thinking Andrew Weismann's last gig was to threaten Cohen if he did not lie for Mueller.
Weismann tried this on other suspects and one by name of Jerome Corsi publicly came out and said he was essentially being pressured to lie for Mueller.
Mueller has to make his Democrat handlers happy and also to SAVE FACE. That includes vindicating to some extent his prodigy James Comey.
I think they'll keep this going all the way up to election day 2020.
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