Mob Movies?! CNN Plays 'Godfather' Clip to Attack Trump on Alleged Cohen Intimidation

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

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CNN isn't stopping at making generic accusations of witness intimidation against President Trump with respect to Michael Cohen's prospective congressional testimony. The network is instead doing so in, quite literally, the most dramatic terms. On New Day this morning, CNN played a clip from Godfather II in which the mob, in order to intimidate a witness at a Senate hearing, has brought the witness's brother into the audience.

After the clip rolled, CNN commentator John Avlon broke out the old mob threat:

AVLON: I think what's happening between the President and Rudy invoking the father-in-law and the wife goes well beyond problematic. At least from a historic precedent standpoint, there is none. What the President of the United States and his lawyer are basically doing is saying, "Nice family you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to them."

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Cohen knows his statement that Trump told him to lie to Congress is in fact a lie. He does not want to so testify and open himself up to another perjury charge, so he blames Trump for not testifying. And the gullible, Trump-hating press spreads more Fake News.