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CNN's Gloria Borger: Source close to Cohen says he has 'the goods'
The Hill ^ | 11/29/18 | Emily Birnbaum

Posted on 11/29/2018 6:39:49 PM PST by yesthatjallen

CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger on Thursday said a source close to Michael Cohen told her that Cohen has "the goods" on his former boss, President Trump.

"'Michael has the goods,'" Borger said on CNN, reading her source's quote. "'He has extremely valuable information.'"

Cohen, Trump's longtime fixer and attorney, pleaded guilty Thursday for misstatements he made to Congress while testifying about his contacts with Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Cohen appeared in a federal court in Manhattan after reaching a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating ties between Trump's presidential campaign and Russia. According to court documents, Cohen pleaded guilty to making a false statement about the effort to build a Trump Tower in Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign. He also said that he made false statements about the timing of the project.

"And so this clearly goes beyond the Trump Tower Moscow ... although that is crucial and important," Borger said on CNN. "But if Michael Cohen is talking, and we know how close he was to Trump at certain points, how loyal he has been to Donald Trump, and we also know the things that were being asked in the grand jury."

"I think Michael Cohen, who was the man who said he would take a bullet for the president, has now become Brutus to the president," Borger said. "Because he has this need now to - his people say - tell the truth and come clean and is no longer in the business of protecting Donald Trump, which is what he did for all those years."

Cohen has reportedly spent more than 70 hours in interviews with Mueller’s office since he pleaded guilty to multiple federal crimes in August. He indicated in court that he had violated campaign finance laws at the direction of then-candidate Trump.

The violation stemmed from a $130,000 "hush money" payment to adult film star and director Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged 2016 affair with Tump.

Mueller's team is reportedly working on its long-awaited final report.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
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To: yesthatjallen

If Gloria Borger ever had “the goods” they are well past their sell-by date.


41 posted on 11/29/2018 7:41:01 PM PST by Yankee (Hillary's loss is tangable proof that God still blesses America.)
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To: MAGAthon

Is Trump smarter than CNN or the Clintons? Is Mueller on a wild goose chase?


42 posted on 11/29/2018 7:41:57 PM PST by FreedBird (T)
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To: Hostage

Once a proven liar, always a liar. CNN has to have something for the viewers hate addiction. Hate is almost like a drug.


43 posted on 11/29/2018 7:44:59 PM PST by FreedBird (T)
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To: yesthatjallen

Russia, Russia, Russia!

44 posted on 11/29/2018 7:48:40 PM PST by Yankee (Hillary's loss is tangable proof that God still blesses America.)
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To: yesthatjallen
"THIS IS IT!" "TRUMP IS FINISHED!" "A MATTER OF WEEKS!"

How many time have we heard this sound and fury, signifying nothing? remember when the Dow dropped 600 points on the fake ABC news about Mueller? There IS no "goods"

45 posted on 11/29/2018 7:52:17 PM PST by montag813
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Valuable to whom?

To CNN. For ratings. To Trump? Pfffft. Nonsense.

46 posted on 11/29/2018 7:53:24 PM PST by montag813
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Valuable to whom?

To CNN. For ratings. To Trump? Pfffft. Nonsense.

47 posted on 11/29/2018 7:53:24 PM PST by montag813
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To: yesthatjallen

Cohen lied that he lied and will lie again. No case here.


48 posted on 11/29/2018 8:02:11 PM PST by Tuketu (The i(D)iot Platform is splinters bound by crazy glue. TRUMP is the solvent.)
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To: yesthatjallen

A lot of the libs say that what he’s already disclosed is proof of something. I don’t think these guys have a clue.


49 posted on 11/29/2018 8:02:53 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: yesthatjallen

Translation: Michael Cohen is trying to meet his plea deal so he is superbly inventing tale to tell corrupt Mueller and his gang of thugs cloaked as prosecutors & investigators.


50 posted on 11/29/2018 8:07:28 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

They’re really making the “Justice” department look bad and reinforcing the bad reputation that law enforcement has over jailing, killing, prosecuting the wrong folks.


51 posted on 11/29/2018 8:10:41 PM PST by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: yesthatjallen

70 hours! I could tell you every single thing I can remember about my life in a third that amount of time.


52 posted on 11/29/2018 8:14:52 PM PST by j.havenfarm ( 1,500 posts as of 8/10/18. A FReeper since 2000; never shutting up!)
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To: Robert DeLong

So, you and Gloria Borger are saying that Mulehead was smart enough to get his supposed star witness TO PLEAD GUILTY TO LYING before he ever spilled “the goods?” Sounds like something that would trip up a rookie prosecutor let alone someone who has as many conflicts as Mulehead.


53 posted on 11/29/2018 8:54:28 PM PST by jyo19
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To: All

In other words,... (assuming it isn’t just completely fake news)... Mueller finally threatened him into making up some huge lies.


54 posted on 11/29/2018 9:32:45 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: RoseofTexas

CNN Breaking News the majority of the day: SOURCES say Trump is an emotional wreck, lashes out at his staff, who he thinks hates him.

Then CNN’s roundtable of Bolger, Max Boot, Anna Navarro, and their token black Trump hater all agreeing Trump is a disaster and he’s considered a joke by world leaders. And any day now he’ll resign because he knows Mueller is about to ruin him by proving he stole the election from Clinton.


55 posted on 11/29/2018 9:39:08 PM PST by NKP_Vet ("Man without God descends into madness”)
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To: TexasGurl24
Why create thread after thread after thread with “The Hill” garbage?

I expect a lot more from our “concerned” FRiends for the next 2 years. Organized agitprop.

56 posted on 11/29/2018 10:00:34 PM PST by atc23
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To: Lysandru

#5. Borger, a hardcore leftists is PART OF THE CON! PERIOD.


57 posted on 11/29/2018 10:11:46 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Parley Baer

Exactly.

Trump Tower Moscow was never built and the whole proposed project had nothing to do with the 2016 campaign.


58 posted on 11/29/2018 10:59:36 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Hey liberals! Trump in 2020. Because, 'eff you!)
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To: yesthatjallen

1) Assume he has something on Trump. What are the odds it has anything to do with Russia or the election? It’s probably pre-election stuff

2) You can’t indict a sitting President

3) Trump isn’t going to be removed by the Senate if there is a House impeachment for something pre-election related

4) Before Trump leaves, he could theoretically pardon himself, or he could resign on Jan 19th and be pardoned by President Pence.

5) There remains the question of statutes of limitations

6) There is an unresolved controversy about turning an attorney into a witness against his client. Attorney client privilege has to be affirmed. The only way they could break it is if Trump and Cohen together engaged in a crime. Merely telling an attorney about a crime should not be used against the client, that is the whole point of attorney-client privilege

7) Given the track record of the media, I don’t really believe there are any “goods”.


59 posted on 11/29/2018 11:03:39 PM PST by monkeyshine
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To: yesthatjallen

We have been hearing such stuff for 2 years now. This is getting old.


60 posted on 11/29/2018 11:17:52 PM PST by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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