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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums***BREAKING*** CNN - Michael Cohen, long Trump time fixer, to sing
"My wife, my daughter and my son have my first loyalty and always will," Cohen told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in an interview published Monday morning. "I put family and country first."
Cohen has famously said he would take a bullet for Trump and he has fashioned himself as Trump's "fixer," willing to help handle situations quietly. But the interview raises new questions about Cohen's allegiance to Trump amid his legal troubles and subsequent isolation from the President's inner circle.
In his new interview, Cohen refused to follow Trump's lead to cast the FBI in a negative light over April's raids on his home, hotel room and office.
"I don't agree with those who demonize or vilify the FBI. I respect the FBI as an institution, as well as their agents," Cohen said. "When they searched my hotel room and my home, it was obviously upsetting to me and my family. Nonetheless, the agents were respectful, courteous and professional. I thanked them for their service and as they left, we shook hands."
Cohen also pushed back at the President's recent tweet repeating Russian President Vladimir Putin's claim that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election, as well.
"Simply accepting the denial of Mr. Putin is unsustainable," he said.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/02/politics/michael-cohen-loyalty-donald-trump/index.html
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)that he's going to sing?
I saw it more as a threat to Trump - pardon me or I tell Mueller everything.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,704 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)stonecutter357
(12,682 posts)cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)convictions to a number of Repugnants like Trump, Pence, Gorsuch, McConnell, Nunes and Ryan to name but a few.
Marthe48
(16,688 posts)My latest fantasy is the senators going to russia over July 4th are seeking protection from arrest by U.S. law enforcement. And trump is hope the same from Finland.
Ellipsis
(9,123 posts)Yeah CNN breaks an ABC interview...
Freethinker65
(9,928 posts)Cohen obviously cannot lie about criminal evidence found in his possession during the raid.
He could get a pardon, but the evidence remains. Could Cohen possibly have more information to give? You betcha. Will he give up that information? That is the question.
calimary
(80,693 posts)If he gets a pardon, that does not shut him up. As I understand it, accepting a pardon means an admission of guilt. As such he could not be charged or convicted on any of those counts covered by the pardon, but he sure could testify about it. The pardon means he couldnt self-incriminate on those counts. His testimony could doom LOTS of vile people, up to and including his feckless lying treasonous former boss.
Sing, Michael! SING!
calimary
(80,693 posts)The way he refers to the FBI. He does not trash them even after they raided his various properties. He did not lambaste them as jackbooted thugs who broke down his doors in the dead of night or stomped all over his privacy or his civil rights or some such defensive persecution complex whining. Courteous, respectful, and professional, as he put it. They shook hands at the end. All was peaceable and very much above board and by the rules. No open posturing for combat. No in-yet-face. No sez WHO schtick here. He sounds like hes clearly signaling hell be cooperative.
The FBI and prosecutors are likely gonna see that as a positive - a tip-off that they can do business with him and hes not gonna be a jerk. Hes setting himself up as a sympathetic character especially toward law enforcement.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)cover the trump criminality universe pretty well - local, national and international.
Now if Mueller Heat can get Paul 'LeBron' Manafort on their team
GO GO GO
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Snackshack
(2,540 posts)Happens. Tired of the continuous tweets and post of this is going to happen or that is going to happen or any day now Mueller is going to do X are tiring.
GetRidOfThem
(869 posts)Time for something to actually happen, not just foreshadowing...
Duppers
(28,094 posts)KPN
(15,585 posts)Too much damage has already been done to ever reverse fully in my remaining lifetime and, I fear, the greater share of my adult childrens. Oh, I suppose there is always the hope that we take both houses in 2018, successfully delay SCJ nomination hearings in the meantime, are gifted a fully and clearly incriminating indictment of Trump, his family, McConnell, Pence, Ryan, Nunes and others; pass a bill that addresses appointments by a President who gains the WH via unlawful means by providing a nullification remedy; impeach Trump; and based on the new law impeach Gorsuch; and ... fat chance, huh?
C Moon
(12,188 posts)Turbineguy
(37,206 posts)with immunity from Mueller or a pardon from trump?
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Zero reason for him to say these things publicly.
I see this as him letting Trump know he doesn't need to sing. The confiscated material is enough.
FakeNoose
(32,328 posts)Personally I don't think Cohen is that bright, looking at all the errors he's made in the last couple years.
He's not one of those guys who stays one-step-ahead. He's more like two steps sideways and a step back.
Whiskeytide
(4,459 posts)... covering up Trump misdeeds were pretty standard methods, and would have never seen the light of day were it not for the intense scrutiny resulting from Trumps election and the deep investigations and media probes. In other words, his veneer was designed to withstand a glance, not a study. Its unraveling because no one - Trump, Cohen and/or others - ever expected Trump to be where he is and under such a powerful microscope, and more significant anti-detection measures were not taken.
calimary
(80,693 posts)thucythucy
(7,983 posts)that is a great song.
Here's another version I've always liked:
manor321
(3,344 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)for suggesting other people be banned, in your case, post haste. Delete the post, it is ridiculous, imo.
Takket
(21,421 posts)Now how do we convince Manafort?
FakeNoose
(32,328 posts)I would hope that these lawyers are telling him the truth about his situation. That's what makes the difference, Cohen should see that it's in his best interest to talk to Mueller.
Calista241
(5,584 posts)The fact that Mueller isn't running the investigation into Cohen should say something to everyone here.
FakeNoose
(32,328 posts)He's always had his own "law firm" of corporate lawyers keeping tabs on all of his lawsuits. However Michael Cohen wasn't one of them, Cohen is/was his fixer.
He's the guy who handled the dirty stuff that real lawyers won't touch. I'm talking about the payoffs, the money-drops, stiff arming opponents in business and politics, etc. Even though Cohen has a law degree, he doesn't practice law for the Trump organization. Therefore - no attorney-client privilege except in a few instances that are being reviewed right now.
Justice
(7,182 posts)I agree that attorney client privilege might apply to the communications to the extent Cohen was acting in an attorney client relationship with Trump, or the Trump Organization. And to that end, the court has determined that much of Cohen's papers were not privileged, so interesting to see what is there.
Also, attorney-client privilege has liimits - doesn't apply to communications between a client and attorney for the purpose of committing, continuing, or advancing an illegal or fraudulent act. Also has other exceptions.
Good article on limits of privilege --
https://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/mueller-and-the-limits-of-attorney-client-privilege
AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)Im very skeptical about this.
irisblue
(32,828 posts)He & his people are spinning.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)The whole GMA show and nothing but George's telling what Cohen said.
AllyCat
(16,031 posts)I dont trust these people AT ALL. We must vote.
jmowreader
(50,447 posts)Trump is counting on people falling on their swords for him.
Heres the thing: The GOP has hitched its star to Trump because Trump gives them what they want: isolationism and eradication of the New Deal. They will ignore the fact he has no morals and no principles beyond whats in it for me? to get these things. But they cant ignore the reality that the nation Saint Ronald called The Evil Empire manipulated the election to put Trump in office.
Given hard proof Trump is in bed with Russia, theyll impeach. But right now theyre like a woman with a lump in her breast so big its visible through her shirt going to another doctor because it just cant be breast cancer. The nine doctors Ive already seen, they cant be right.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Starting the morning with music, nothing is better in my world.
CountAllVotes
(20,854 posts)Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock (Music Video)
Lets rock, everybody lets rock!
Start picking away quick Cohen!
Bwahahahaaa!!!
awesomerwb1
(4,256 posts)Sure buddy. I'll believe it when I see it.
JenniferJuniper
(4,495 posts)6 times in the past few weeks?
Call me when he actually does something.
MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)Its just too heartbreaking when it doesnt work out.
marlakay
(11,370 posts)and check his food, he knows too much to talk.