Trump Tries to Distance Himself: Michael Cohen 'Did Bad Things Unrelated to Trump'

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite


by Colby Hall | Feb 27th, 2019, 6:23 am

President Donald Trump may currently be in Hanoi, Vietnam preparing for his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jung Un, but the public testimony of his former attorney Michael Cohen is still very much on his mind.

We know this because of a very early 4 AM tweet (EST) in which the commander in chief preemptively dismissed the role that Cohen played in both the Trump Organization and the Trump Campaign. Trump said via Twitter:

Link to tweet

While Trump prepared for his historic summit with Kim, a 20-page prepared testimony of Michael Cohen was released that reportedly revealed many explosive details including the possession of evidence that Trump committed crimes while sitting in the nation’s highest office and allegations that Trump was well aware of the Wikileaks dump of information damaging to the Hillary Clinton campaign.

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[C_U_L8R]

1. When he speaks about himself in the third person....

what un-insane person does that?

[thegoose]

3. King Dump

Thinks he's invincible. Let's see... 👹

[dewsgirl]

5. This is a pet peeve of mine. Makes me absolutely crazy.

[PatSeg]

7. It is so bizarre

though in this case, he could be trying to distance himself from "Trump" as well as Cohen. Maybe this is his way to escape the reality of the horrible world that he as "Trump" has created. Everything about him is so weird and abnormal.

[LuvLoogie]

10. It's a ploy. It's a rhetorical tic that separates him from the shit show he conjures.

[Harker]

12. Next up...

speaking publicly with "Tony", via the right index finger.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

15. Referring to oneself in the third person reveals a lot.

If Fat Donnie's referring to himself in the third person bothers you, you're in good company. Bill Gates recalls his initial meeting with President (sic) Trump this way:

“When I walked in, his first sentence kind of threw me off. He said: ‘Trump hears that you don’t like what Trump is doing.’ And I thought, ‘Wow, but you’re Trump.’ I didn’t know the third party-form was always expected. ‘Gates says that Gates knows that you’re not doing things right.’”

Referring to oneself in the third person is called "illeism."

When we hear it happen, habitual illeism   tends to signal to the rest of us one of a number of personality quirks in the speaker, none of them good: A stunted intellect (“Sloth loves Chunk”); the presence of psychotic personality disorders (“Smeagol hates nasty Hobbitses”); rampant egoism (“Doctor Doom shall be master of Earth!”); or a journalist using horribly awkward turns of phrase that belong in the print era (at least, that’s in the opinion of your present author). "The Psychology of Referring to Yourself in the Third Person"

Referring to yourself in the third person creates distance between "I" and "he." So if you have an exaggerated view of how great you are, you could be using this distance to make yourself even bigger. Or, if you've achieved major success suddenly, using the third person could be a way to adjust to the bigger role that's been assigned to you. It's a way to enlarge yourself to fit that role...People love to rip those who refer to themselves in the third person, but they don't understand the power that comes with it. The third person is how you indicate that the topic is not open for debate. You are speaking about facts that just so happen to include you. "Why the F%$# Do People Refer to Themselves in the Third Person?"

Illeism isn't unique to Donald Trump. SNL satirized Bob Dole's use of it during his presidential campaign. Sesame Street's Elmo always refers to himself that way, although that might mimic a child's use of their own name until the concept of "I" takes hold. Many athletes talk to themselves in third person to calm themselves down, as did Andre Agassi during his his tennis playing days.

The final word goes to J.K. Rowling, who tweeted: "I wonder if Trump talks to Trumpself in the third Trumperson when Trump's alone?"

[Harker]

19. Harker found your post interesting. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

20. Heard a clip yesterday with Don Jr. referring to him as "Trump," too. Way too spooky. n/t

[catrose]

2. How did Michael have time to do anything not related to Trump?

He was Trump's lawyer 24-7, always ready for anything. And his other 2 clients were Trump-associated, so...

[duforsure]

4. Any liar like trump can spout off anything against someone exposing him

But will he go before Congress under oath and speak , and answer their questions. He refused too after claiming he would for Mueller, and lied about doing it. Now he wants to attack Cohen as a liar , but he's the one who can't speak under oath. Only con men and liars do this, not someone honest. I wish the media would spend zero time or very little with this Kim PR event he's having for putin now, and they shouldn't keep enabling him by covering it when they know it all could be lies what he claims for attention for himself falsely, when he knows its lies. Its another distraction against Cohen testifying, that's all it is.

[Maxheader]

6. Wasn't it pelosi that commented on..

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) took a shot at President Trump over the arrest of his longtime associate Roger Stone, saying it was "very interesting" to see the "kinds of people" Trump surrounds himself with.

[safeinOhio]

8. The pResident doth protest too much, methinks

We can read him like a book.

[procon]

9. Cohen had just three clients.

One was Trump, another was Elliot Broidy, a Republican fundraiser, and Fox News Host Sean Hannity. Which one of them was paying hush money to women to prevent them from publicly revealing their sexcapades with Trump prior to the election?

[Dave Starsky]

11. Those darn low-level coffee boys.

You send them out to get a venti Cafe Americano with extra cream, and they come back with treason and campaign finance crimes!

[BlueIdaho]

13. Referring to himself in third person?

That motherfucker is REALLY disassociated!

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[IronLionZion]

14. "Before the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times."

And he went outside and wept bitterly. The Gospel of John 18:13-27 describes the account of the three denials

I can't wait until dipshit denies ever knowing his own sons.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Stone & Assange got pointed out as liars. Both have denied talking to the other. . . . nt

[tclambert]

17. Next step: Trump grows a mustache and denies knowing Donald Trump.

"This Donald Trump guy wasn't really part of the campaign--barely knew him--he might fetch coffee or something. And I'm not him. I have a mustache."

(By the way, I picture this mustache as hair from his sideburn area combed across his upper lip.)

[LiberalFighter]

18. Cohen did a lot more bad things related to Trump.

[JI7]

21. you hideous fucked up piece of shit, go under OATH and Testify like Cohen did. piece of ugly fucked

shit.

repulsive fuckwad