Trump: Cohen "is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of a jam (Taxi cabs maybe?)"

[Miles Archer]

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.....I did NOT know of the meeting with my son, Don jr. Sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam (Taxi cabs maybe?). He even retained Bill and Crooked Hillary’s lawyer. Gee, I wonder if they helped him make the choice!

4:56 AM - 27 Jul 2018

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[shanny]

1. #lordytherestapes

[tparrett62]

2. Does he REALLY want to further piss off Cohen?

I can't think of a dumber maneuver than to piss off your fixer.

[Miles Archer]

7. This is the crawl that ran on MSNBC while this was still relatively "breaking" news....

[oberliner]

3. Michael Cohen's taxi business partner just agreed to cooperate with investigators (May 22)

One of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s business partners has now agreed to cooperate with government investigators.

Evgeny “Gene” Freidman, known as the “Taxi King,” entered a guilty plea in New York state court Tuesday as part of a cooperation deal, the New York Times’s Danny Hakim, William Rashbaum, and Vivian Wang report.

Freidman had been arrested last June by state authorities, on charges of not paying more than $5 million in taxes related to his taxi business to New York state. Now he’s pleaded guilty to one count of evading just $50,000 in taxes, in exchange for agreeing to assist federal or state prosecutors, per the Times.

Cohen has been in the taxi business with Freidman for years — as of last year, Freidman managed about half of Cohen’s extensive taxi medallion holdings. Furthermore, the search warrant the FBI used to raid Cohen’s residence and office last month specifically requested documents related to his taxi medallion holdings, among other topics.

https://www.vox.com/2018/5/22/17382138/michael-cohen-evgeny-freidman-taxi-king

In case people were curious about the "taxi cabs" reference.

[empedocles]

6. More dots

Amazing

[smirkymonkey]

4. Someone's gettin' a little wiggy...

[Roland99]

5. Cohen better have proof. Otherwise it's he said, he said

[NewJeffCT]

9. If Mueller has the phone records

and knows who the blocked caller/callee was, it will confirm what Cohen had said.

[oberliner]

10. Isn't the Cohen claim that he was present when Donald Jr. told Donald Sr. about the meeting?

Wouldn't that mean it wasn't a phone call but rather an in person conversation?

[Roland99]

13. Perhaps a digital recorder on his person?

[Saboburns]

8. Trump is showing his intelligence

Whoops I mis spoke. I meant to say isn't showing any intelligence. One of them double negatives.

Anyway, I'd say pissing off a man who may get you convicted of Treason is a bad idea.

[marble falls]

11. I guess cheetolini thought Cohen really would take a bullet for him. Whomp whomp!

[manor321]

12. I LOVE that they are fighting!

[Grammy23]

14. Maybe Cohen would have taken a bullet for tRump at one point in this whole mess.

But we now know that he didn’t just trust tRump implicitly. He made tapes. (Oh, Lordy, thank you!) So if he taped all of his interactions with tRump, the smoking gun might be in the taped encounters. Looks like Cohen at least had a clue that doing business with tRump might lead to his having to prove what really was said VS the version tRump might claim.