Posted on 07/02/2018 5:23:21 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey
Michael Cohen -- President Donald Trumps longtime personal attorney and a former executive vice president at the Trump Organization -- has always insisted he would remain loyal to the president.
He was the fix-it guy, the pit bull so fiercely protective of his boss that hed once described himself as "the guy who would take a bullet" for the president.
But in his first in-depth interview since the FBI raided his office and homes in April, Cohen strongly signaled his willingness to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller and federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York -- even if that puts President Trump in jeopardy.
My wife, my daughter and my son have my first loyalty and always will, Cohen told me. I put family and country first.
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If he dumps on Trump who would ever use him as a lawyer?
I believe it’s because the president and the AG (spit) can’t control a state investigation or have access to its information.
His first loyalty is saving his own treacherous lame ass.
I could be wrong but the case was referred to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Judge Kimba Woods is a federal judge appointed by Clinton. Cohen isn’t being prosecuted in a NY State Court, yet.
Me thinks this is a matter that the state is pursuing with the USAO involving property matters. The state has been been trying to get at Trump for some time. So, I would not dismiss this as nothing but BS. Let’s examine a senario: Trump wants to convert a building from rental to condo. There are ways to do that which are questionable but not illegal. Trump approaches Cohen and asks how to do it. Cohen advises the course and they proceed. However, now Cohen is pressured to make a deal so he says Trump came to me and set up something I told him was illegal to do (same facts which he said were questionable when approached by Trump but with this spin become enough to indict). They indict in state court as it is a state matter with the matter of a state indictment of a sitting president not decided. The Gov faced this with Agnew but he negotiated a plea deal so whether he could be indicted was moot. He pled to a tax charge BTW. So, the dems have enough to go to Congress with an impeachment matter around the horn. Mueller and the dems are this sneaky, I would not put it passed them and lastly when an attorney is involved, expect the worse, they are all snakes.
Dilly Dally get back to your fake news.
Interesting stuff. I expect lots of twists and turns to this Cohen sago.
He’s also smart enough to know his wife can’t pardon him.
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