***BREAKING*** CNN - Michael Cohen, long Trump time fixer, to sing

[DemocratSinceBirth]

President Donald Trump's longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, is putting his loyalty to "family and country" before his old boss.
"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

DISCLAIMER- FOR THE LITERALISTS- HYPERBOLE IS MINE OF COURSE

[NewJeffCT]

1. you mean the title is hyperbole?

that he's going to sing?

I saw it more as a threat to Trump - pardon me or I tell Mueller everything.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. There are literalists among us.

[lagomorph777]

27. Looks like it is. But a flip seems likely.

[stonecutter357]

3. LOCK HIM UP!

[cstanleytech]

19. Depends. I would be willing to let him go if he had hard impeachable evidence that would lead to

convictions to a number of Repugnants like Trump, Pence, Gorsuch, McConnell, Nunes and Ryan to name but a few.

[Marthe48]

24. my hope and dream :)

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]

4. ...not breaking, more like oozing. It started oozing last night.

Yeah CNN breaks an ABC interview...

[Freethinker65]

5. Perhaps Cohen is letting Trump know that the FBI found some of the incriminating evidence

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]

36. Yeah but that's a double-edged sword.

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 couldn’t 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]

37. And one other thing strikes me as MOST intriguing

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 he’s clearly signaling he’ll 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 he’s not gonna be a jerk. He’s setting himself up as a sympathetic character especially toward law enforcement.

[empedocles]

6. Cohen & Gates

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]

31. Add in Prince and what is left?

[Snackshack]

7. I will believe it when it

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]

18. Ditto

Time for something to actually happen, not just foreshadowing...

[Duppers]

23. Same here.

[KPN]

25. Yup. Frankly, I feel like it's already too late.

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]

35. I hear you. Week after week, it's been the same thing.

[Turbineguy]

8. Is Cohen better off

with immunity from Mueller or a pardon from trump?

[NCTraveler]

9. He is indirectly letting Trump know that they have the goods.

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]

11. You may be right about that, or you could be reading too much into it

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]

14. I think Cohen's methods of ...

... 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 Trump’s election and the deep investigations and media probes. In other words, his veneer was designed to withstand a glance, not a study. It’s 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]

39. Great cartoon!

[thucythucy]

10. Headlines and current news aside

that is a great song.

Here's another version I've always liked:

[manor321]

12. People should be banned for misleading titles like this n/t

[saidsimplesimon]

28. People should be banned

for suggesting other people be banned, in your case, post haste. Delete the post, it is ridiculous, imo.

[Takket]

13. Cohen is talking like a guy that knows drumpf isn't worth dying in prison for

Now how do we convince Manafort?

[FakeNoose]

40. He's finally got lawyers that aren't paid for by Cheeto

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]

15. You realize that he's still Trump's attorney and attorney / client privilege still applies.

The fact that Mueller isn't running the investigation into Cohen should say something to everyone here.

[FakeNoose]

21. Trump employs at least 50 attorneys

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]

30. Cohen is no longer Trump's attorney. As for the A/C privilege....

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]

16. publicity train

I’m very skeptical about this.

[irisblue]

17. And when he names names & details,.....

He & his people are spinning.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. So when is the actual interview gonna air ? Taped

The whole GMA show and nothing but George's telling what Cohen said.

[AllyCat]

22. He'll be a good Republikkkan and do what is best for Trump

I don’t trust these people AT ALL. We must vote.

[jmowreader]

33. He's also very interested in evading liability for Trump's actions

Trump is counting on people falling on their swords for him.

Here’s 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 “what’s in it for me?” to get these things. But they can’t 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, they’ll impeach. But right now they’re like a woman with a lump in her breast so big it’s visible through her shirt going to another doctor because “it just can’t be breast cancer. The nine doctors I’ve already seen, they can’t be right.”

[saidsimplesimon]

26. Thank you DSB

Starting the morning with music, nothing is better in my world.

[CountAllVotes]

29. He'll be singing soon alright!

Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock (Music Video)

Lets rock, everybody lets rock!

Start picking away quick Cohen!

Bwahahahaaa!!!

[awesomerwb1]

32. 'Family and country first"??

Sure buddy. I'll believe it when I see it.

[JenniferJuniper]

34. Haven't we seen this headline at least

6 times in the past few weeks?

Call me when he actually does something.

[MadDAsHell]

38. Fitzmas has me skeptical. Until we value truth over post Reccs, I refuse to be baited.

It’s just too heartbreaking when it doesn’t work out.

[marlakay]

41. I guess they had better get some security

and check his food, he knows too much to talk.