Ex-Trump Attorney Warns Trump May Have Already 'Given Away' Sensitive Info

[orangecrush]

Former President Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen said the confidential documents found by investigators during the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago may have already been "given away," and if not, he warns that Trump may use the information to hold America "hostage."

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"I've been saying now for months and finally, and I mean finally, people are beginning to listen, and they're beginning to repeat it," Cohen said. "Nothing that Donald Trump is doing is for the benefit of you, for me, for the American people, for this country. This is all about him. And I stand firm when I say that Donald wants to use this in order to hold the country hostage. That's his goal."

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He said that Trump "knows his ass is in the grinder right now. He knows he's cooked," adding that the former president would leverage his knowledge of the confidential records "to ensure that he doesn't spend the rest of his natural life behind bars charged with treason."


https://www.newsweek.com/michael-cohen-warns-donald-trump-may-have-given-away-sensitive-information-mar-lago-1737787

[sakabatou]

1. No shit

That's what a lot of us on DU have already said.

[elleng]

2. NO DOUBT (imo,) no 'May Have Already 'Given Away''

[brush]

13. Yep, it was reported that he traveled internationally...

with boxes of documents...as if he was going to study them.

Yeah, right. The only studying he would do is to study what he could sell while overseas.

[Bayard]

3. I don't doubt that a bit

[Irish_Dem]

4. Michael Cohen and Mary Trump give the most accurate picture of Trump's pathology and danger level.

We ignore them at our own peril.

[elleng]

9. Yes.

[dalton99a]

18. +1

[dchill]

5. Does this person actually think that's shocking, breaking...

...news? Really?

[rsdsharp]

6. He may well have provided sensitive information to those who have no right to it,

but I’ll guarantee it wasn’t “given away.” Trump either got paid for it, or used it as currency to pay a debt.

Trump never gives anything away.

[Wounded Bear]

8. trump monetizes everything he does...nt

[Ligyron]

29. Beat me to it.

Give it away?

Trump never “gives away” anything.

Well, except for the fact he’s guilty as hell.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Gee, ya think? nt

[Jarqui]

10. Wouldn't surprise me at all

That is his long established modus operandi - to threaten, intimidate, Kompromat, etc

The one positive is that he might not flee in time.

I've always felt he would avoid jail.

He's becoming more erratic.
His messaging is all over the place - when he shouldn't be saying anything.
He floats something. It doesn't work.
He floats something else. It doesn't work ... etc
He's getting more desperate working the media rather than criminal legal defense.

It has been 3 weeks since the search warrant was served
and he can't seem to find any decent lawyers.
That I did not expect.
If you throw enough money at a lawyer ...

Someone finally hit this wicked witch with some real water ...

[liberalla]

11. Of course he has! He has bills to pay and favors to return...

These national secrets wont betray themselves. Somebody's got to do it to them...

Sick, sick, sick... not funny.

[TigressDem]

12. If so, sounds like execution for Treason is a reasonable response.

If his lips can no longer lie and his fingers can't tweet out our secrets, then America will finally be safe from his betraying bellow and brawl tactics.

We will still probably get a Civil War out of it and they will try to put DeSatan on the throne, but we will find a way to repel their greedy uneducated arses.

[NCDem47]

14. I hope...I pray...that

SOMEONE has the receipts of Trump's treason. As in, its ALREADY a done deal and proof of that is in the DOJ/FBI/CIA's hands.

Let Trump and his accomplices defend him a lot (with little info released), defend him some (with more info released), and finally - the MOTHER of all all proof - leave him cold ass alone and exposed as the fraud and treasonous weasel he is. Of course at that point, his staunchest supporterss will construct the most outlandish conspiracy theories.

[Botany]

15. Both MBS in Saudi Arabia and Vlad Putin in Russia have been busy doing some "house cleaning" of late

Of course Donny has given away or sold all kinds of shit.

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-oligarch-family-dead-spain-1699660

[Irish_Dem]

19. Yes I think Putin has been killing his oligarchs who provided info to the US or other allies.

[Botany]

20. And ever since 2017 MBS has been doing some clean up work in Saudi Arabia to members of the Royal ..

... Family that he sees as disloyal or a threat to him. And who came to power in 2017?

And this does not begin to cover all of our spies, contacts, intelligence operations that have
been killed, disappeared, and or put out of business since Trump went back to Merede a Logo
in Jan 2021.

Known Timeline:
1. 7/31/2019: Trump spoke with Putin (NYT)
2. 8/3/2019: Trump issued a request for a list of top US spies (The Daily Beast)
3. 10/5/2021: "CIA Admits to Losing Dozens of Informants". (NYT)
4. 8/26/2022: Documents at MAL Could Compromise Human Intel (NYT) 1/5


BTW in the past 1.5 years Saudi Arabia (MBS) has cleaned up members of the Saudi Royal Family who not loyal to MBS (Mohammed bin Salman)
and in Russia and around the world Russian Oligarchs who were not seen as loyal to Vlad Putin have wound up dead. It looks like Donald Trump might
have sold or passed on US intel onto MBS and Vlad that the took with him when he left the White House.

America has had 3 Americans who were convicted of espionage @ the levels that Trump might be at. And they are:
The Rosenbergs (executed) FBI agent Robert Hanssen (15 life terms in the US Super Max in Colorado)

[Irish_Dem]

22. I didn't realize the Saudis were probably acting on Trump's stolen intel as well.

Not surprising.

Trump is much much worse than the Rosenbergs, Hanssen or Ames.

Trump had access to a much wider scope and quantity of intel than any of them.

He probably made copies of the high priced items, and remains free to do what he wants with them.

Did you know Hanssen is in solitary confinement 23 hours a day?

[Botany]

23. Well it is pretty well known that Jared Kushner used a P.D.B. (Presidential Daily Briefing) ....

... which he did not have the clearance to see because he failed the background check but Trump
let him look at 'em anyways .... to tell MBS that the U.S. was on to his plans of killing Khashoggi
and where he could find him too. And either before or after that the Saudis paid the 1.3 billion $
note on Kushner's building on 666 5th Ave.

BTW the head of Turkey, Erdoğan knew that both Trump and Kushner knew all about the killing of
Khashoggi and he was then able to blackmail Trump into pulling our forces out of Syria so he could
kill our allies the Kurds.

Why those mother fuckers are still walking free I don't know.

"Did you know Hanssen is in solitary confinement 23 hours a day?" Supermax Florence, CO

[Irish_Dem]

24. Yes you are right, Saudi didn't give Kushner $billions for nothing in return.

I had not yet put Saudi killing operatives into the equation.
But yes of course that is a reasonable assumption based upon all the facts we have.

Jebus, I didn't know about Erdogan knowing what Trump and Kushner had done
and used it as leverage to get what he wanted.

Trump took espionage, dirty dealing, and behind the scene treason and turmoil to an unheard of level.
It is hard to keep up with it. If this was a novel, no one would believe it.

Oh many thanks for Hanssen SuperMax cell schemata.
Actually his solitary confinement is better than I had imagined.

The MFers are walking free because GOP elected officials have a get out of jail free card.

[bluestarone]

16. I don't remember, but was Michael around when the INTERPRETER was there?

If so, he KNOWS who the FBI needs to talk to!

[agingdem]

17. I think Michael Cohen underestimates AG Garland...

Garland and his counterintelligence people know the information contained in those tranches of documents...if Trump attempted to release the files, the FBI would raid his home, drag the treasonous sonofabitch out in his size XS gold-plated thong, and arrest his fat ass

[wiggs]

21. And everyone who he has dealt secrets with, or shown secrets, or who knows about

the documents...owns Trump.

They can use the knowledge to get what they want from him, any time. The threat of exposure to treason would allow anyone to blackmail, threaten, or continue to get MORE secrets from Trump or any other official (americans or otherwise) in his cult.

This could be a tiny glimpse into a chain of favors, threats, and repercussions around the world. There could be a long line of shady characters with info, looking to cash in against a corrupt, compromised, desperate former president.

It could be really really bad

[Cha]

25. I knew it would be

Michael Cohen.. isn't he the only "Ex DT attorney" who came to his senses?

The USA Doesn't Negotiate with Terrorists!

[orangecrush]

27. Yes

[spanone]

26. I'd only be shocked if he hadn't.

[MustLoveBeagles]

30. This

[Liberal In Texas]

28. The intelligence community should assume every document in TFG's possession

has now been leaked, copied, photographed, shared with enemies, sold, auctioned etc.

I would think there are a lot of spooks scrambling to minimize the damage he's done.

[orangecrush]

31. Exactly

Everything he touches turns to shit.