Trump believed the classified documents stashed at Mar-a-Lago were his 'get out of jail free card'

[FakeNoose]

(link) https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-saw-mar-a-lago-docs-as-get-out-of-jail-free-card-michael-cohen-2022-10

Byline; Joshua Zitser
Sun, October 9, 2022 at 11:37 AM·3 min read

Michael Cohen said that former President Donald Trump saw the classified documents stashed at Mar-a-Lago as his "get out of jail free" card, he told Salon magazine in an interview.

"He's only interested in one thing: the get out of jail free card," Cohen said. "And that's exactly what he saw in those documents."

Cohen, once Trump's personal attorney and fixer, suggested in the Salon interview that Trump thought he might be able to leverage the confidentiality of these documents to his own advantage.

Imagining what Trump might say, Cohen said: "'You want to play with me? Really? I was the former president of the United States. I have documents that are so damaging to this country's national security. Go ahead, indict me, try to throw me in prison. See what happens.'

"What happens is he turns over all this classified information, not as if he hasn't already done it, but he turns all his classified information over to our adversaries, right? 'You want to play that game? No problem!'"

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Also ... link to Salon article: https://www.salon.com/2022/10/08/michael-cohen-ny-fraud-case-will-financially-destroy--and-may-put-him-in/

Is anyone surprised at this? It has been my expectation all along that Chump had exactly that plan.
This is how ruthless (and stupid) mob bosses behave.

[Xipe Totec]

1. He got it backwards as usual. nt

[FakeNoose]

3. Only because Chump got caught

... but he held those documents for over a year and a half. Some of them have yet to be returned.
Maybe they're gone forever, for all we know.

Lock this Mofo up!

[CrispyQ]

2. So far it's worked.

Yesterday there was a long thread speculating that that is exactly what the DOJ fears, that he'll release information if they go after him. Are we gonna let this asshole hold us hostage for the rest of his goddamned life? Maybe so.

[FakeNoose]

5. If he pulls out all the stops and goes full treason

... he'll never get elected again. I think Chump believes he can still be re-elected.

Once that dream dies, then he won't hold back for any reason.

[underpants]

4. Out of his league. Didn't understand the game.

The world never revolves around him even and POTUS. No one took him seriously.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. "This deserves the highest level of scrutiny from the Justice department."

Link to tweet

[Fullduplexxx]

7. And the doj says then your sentence goes from life in prison to hanging for treason

[lindysalsagal]

8. That's less than started WWI. Extorting the largest government in the world.

Of course. What could go wrong? It's high treason.

[crickets]

9. All the more reason to put him in jail.

He belongs there, and it will finally shut him up.