Michael Cohen will testify to House Oversight Feb 7 about his work for Trump

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Jhhnn

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No, and nothing has changed. Regarding the linked post, that was regarding Russia's playing puppet master to the American people.

And who's better at dividing America than Trump? He's Putin's wrecking ball for America & the West. It's not like a wrecking ball knows what it's doing, either. Doesn't matter if it does or not.
 
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Jhhnn

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Based on my anecdotal observations, many people who typically vote Democrat voted for Trump. Especially the "reality" TV watching types. He really should have lost. He definitely would have lost if he didn't get those votes.

It was amusing to know that some left-leaning people I know voted for Trump. I decided before the primaries that there was absolutely no way I would ever vote for Trump -- so I didn't.

The world's greatest con man just grabbed 'em by the pussy. I'm pretty sure they were among the first to realize that they made a yuge mistake.

The sooner we can put this sordid mind fuck episode behind us, the better.
 

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Why do Trump's bromances never work out?

Donald Trump has claimed his former attorney Michael Cohen wrote a “love letter to Trump” manuscript for a book he was hoping to write after working for the president during his rise to prominence and, eventually, the White House.

“Wow, just revealed that Michael Cohen wrote a ‘love letter to Trump’ manuscript for a new book that he was pushing,” the president tweeted on Friday morning. “Written and submitted long after Charlottesville and Helsinki, his phony reasons for going rogue.”

“Book is exact opposite of his fake testimony,” he added, “which now is a lie!”

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Followup on Cohen book:

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

Congress must demand the transcript of Michael Cohen’s new book, given to publishers a short time ago. Your heads will spin when you see the lies, misrepresentations and contradictions against his Thursday testimony. Like a different person! He is totally discredited!
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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

Michael Cohen’s book manuscript shows that he committed perjury on a scale not seen before. He must have forgotten about his book when he testified. What does Hillary Clinton’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, say about this one. Is he being paid by Crooked Hillary. Using her lawyer?

Hillary is behind ALL of this! I knew it! Tan the Conman certainly suffers from (among other things) a complete lack of imagination. So...Donnie sees a contradiction between (a) sworn testimony before Congress and (b) a sycophantic suck-up attempt-to-cash-in book. And I seem to recall several of that genre, penned by Fox News personalities. Does he believe that every book written about him is true? Does that include the books by Michael Wolff and Bob Woodward? Hey..if it's flattery, it's true; if not, it's a lie. So Cohen's proposed book was all true and his testimony was a lie. Wolff and Woodward are liars. It's whackadoodle psycho, but at least it's internally consistent.

So...what appears to have set Trump off this morning was a mention of Cohen's scrapped book proposal by that noted practitioner of responsible journalism, Tucker Carlson. Trump seems to have forgotten that the book proposal was reported by several media sources more than a year ago. Trump is really reaching here, even for him. As usual, his Tourette-like spluttering that someone criticizing him is lying, without ever taking a moment to detail a single one of these supposed lies.
 
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"Michael Cohen once bragged that he would take a bullet for his client, Donald Trump. ' Im the guy who protects the president and the family,' he insisted. More recently, Cohen offered that he would 'rather jump out of a building than turn on Donald Trump,' even after the president spurned his desire for a big White House job."

I actually feel sorry for Cohen. He effectively had the job of "cleaner " for Donald Trump. (No doubt about it, cleaner is dirty work (and dangerous/risky too) and that's why they get paid the big bucks.
 

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I for one know Trump has committed campaign finance violations.

Willfully, plus a whole lot more? Like I said bank and insurance fraud have gotten people in trouble before. Look at Cohen and his penalty for perhaps a thousandth of Trump's. Not Cohen's word, but the documentation the prosecutors and now the House has. "And other crimes which come out of" is pretty close to the language of the mandate. If they are found then they are legit.

At this point one can argue collusion vs conspiracy and what the meaning of "is" is, but Trump has committed criminal acts. Whether he can get away with it is another matter that remains to be seen.

You want a criminal who got away with it for President? You have that- for now.
 

HomerJS

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Maybe we should have let Al Capone slide for tax evasion. After all, that wasn't the primary alleged crime.
 

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What they are clinging to is the hope that by shouting and banging the table with their shoe will cause enough chaos that even the facts which cannot be factually denied are ignored.

I think they are doing to impress their base because their base is easily impressed by stupid and meaningless shit.
 

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I think they are doing to impress their base because their base is easily impressed by stupid and meaningless shit.

I was surfing YouTube and saw something to the effect that most people are dumb. Politically correct or not the vague term used seems to fit uncounted millions in the US alone.
 
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I want aware getting dirt on an opponent for the purpose of winning an election was illegal. Learn something new every day!


Trump asked Russia to find Clinton’s emails. On or around the same day, Russians targeted her accounts

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-asked-russia-to-find-clintons-emails-on-or-around-the-same-day-russians-targeted-her-accounts


Trump asking to "hack" another governments employees email does not sound legal to me. and that is getting dirt on others.. I do not see this any different than watergate.
 
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Followup on Cohen book:



Hillary is behind ALL of this! I knew it! Tan the Conman certainly suffers from (among other things) a complete lack of imagination. So...Donnie sees a contradiction between (a) sworn testimony before Congress and (b) a sycophantic suck-up attempt-to-cash-in book. And I seem to recall several of that genre, penned by Fox News personalities. Does he believe that every book written about him is true? Does that include the books by Michael Wolff and Bob Woodward? Hey..if it's flattery, it's true; if not, it's a lie. So Cohen's proposed book was all true and his testimony was a lie. Wolff and Woodward are liars. It's whackadoodle psycho, but at least it's internally consistent.

So...what appears to have set Trump off this morning was a mention of Cohen's scrapped book proposal by that noted practitioner of responsible journalism, Tucker Carlson. Trump seems to have forgotten that the book proposal was reported by several media sources more than a year ago. Trump is really reaching here, even for him. As usual, his Tourette-like spluttering that someone criticizing him is lying, without ever taking a moment to detail a single one of these supposed lies.

It's great how Trump goes on about a book that doesn't exist knowing his voters will never read it, anyway. They do, however, now believe that such a book exists & that Trump is right about it.

Absolutely astounding.
 

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Willfully, plus a whole lot more? Like I said bank and insurance fraud have gotten people in trouble before. Look at Cohen and his penalty for perhaps a thousandth of Trump's. Not Cohen's word, but the documentation the prosecutors and now the House has. "And other crimes which come out of" is pretty close to the language of the mandate. If they are found then they are legit.

At this point one can argue collusion vs conspiracy and what the meaning of "is" is, but Trump has committed criminal acts. Whether he can get away with it is another matter that remains to be seen.

You want a criminal who got away with it for President? You have that- for now.
I'm not defending him on the campaign finance crap at all. He should be punished for that.
 

blackangst1

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And who's better at dividing America than Trump? He's Putin's wrecking ball for America & the West. It's not like a wrecking ball knows what it's doing, either. Doesn't matter if it does or not.
That's an easy answer: Russia. They did it quite well
 

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Trump asked Russia to find Clinton’s emails. On or around the same day, Russians targeted her accounts

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-asked-russia-to-find-clintons-emails-on-or-around-the-same-day-russians-targeted-her-accounts

Trump asking to "hack" another governments employees email does not sound legal to me. and that is getting dirt on others.. I do not see this any different than watergate.

Not the "Trump asked the Russians to hack Clinton's email" again. I guess the echo chamber put this out for syndication and now we get the stupid reruns.
 

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Not the "Trump asked the Russians to hack Clinton's email" again. I guess the echo chamber put this out for syndication and now we get the stupid reruns.

It wouldn't surprise me, but I imagine you are unaware of the timeline regarding the texts to Jr, then convo to Daddy, regarding the available dirt, via Wikileaks, the meeting, and Trump's public pronouncement, about 5 hours after investigators know that he was informed of the leaks and the deal to get this information.

It's actually quite damning when you look at the whole picture of what was happening, when it was happening, and how each contact led to these public events and what investigators now know what going on within the Trump campaign--and this is actually how such cases are made.
 
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Not the "Trump asked the Russians to hack Clinton's email" again. I guess the echo chamber put this out for syndication and now we get the stupid reruns.

You have no grounds to stand on when you complain about the echo chamber to others.

But trump should never tell the world to "hack" someones email. but he did and it happened in that order.

Can you imagine the shit storm if hillary did that and trumps email was hacked... you would have posted pages and pages of threads on it.
 

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I won't go quite that far. If Trump can hold the base, the GOP will be hard pressed to move against him. If it causes Trump's support to wane, McConnell can keep Trump's balls as a souvenir.

He can make a key chain out of them as people do with old CPUs.
 

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The flies are going down one by one and the dots are starting to connect, Stone will be the next one down. Base on what known it is pretty much sure there are foreign aid to Trump campaign, the last pcs of puzzles are Trump Tower meeting, Wikileak and SA. Appetizers(mistresses and all the money violations) served, now we just have to wait and see how many Trump is going down and see if we got to find out how deep the hole go.

For people that are see defending the Trump campaign they need to chill and ask themselves if they're American or Republican.
 
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Jhhnn

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The flies are going down one by one and the dots are starting to connect, Stone will be the next one down. Base on what known it is pretty much sure there are foreign aid to Trump campaign, the last pcs of puzzles are Trump Tower meeting, Wikileak and SA. Appetizers(mistresses and all the money violations) served, now we just have to wait and see how many Trump is going down and see if we got to find out how deep the hole go.

For people that are see defending the Trump campaign they need to chill and ask themselves if they're American or Republican.

It's not Trump's Fault! Impossible! Can't be! All these people are just taking advantage of him! So persecuted! Witch hunt!

There's a Dunning-Krueger thing going on where the people whose minds have been twiddled the worst are certain that they're too smart for that to happen to them. Like ever. Like all of the divisive right wing agitprop they've fallen for since Gingrich has had no effect.