Cohen obviously has no moral compass, and the perjury and theft show that clearly.
But didn’t the DOJ that was desperately looking for a way to bring down Trump basically said Cohen would confess to what were non-crimes so that eventually Trump could be accused of not recording the $130,000 hush money payment as a campaign contribution? In reality, the $130,000 was Cohen’s investment into becoming AG, he thought. A private transaction between Stormy Daniels and himself. Only after the DOJ claimed it was a campaign contribution to Trump (which Cohen himself used for something not legal for campaign funds to be used for...) did Cohen start claiming that Trump directed him to do it, etc. Am I understanding that correctly?
If so, then there wasn’t a crime until the DOJ threatened to put Cohen and his wife in jail unless he went along with framing Trump. Do I have that right?
Unless I’m totally misunderstanding, it seems to me that the people who should be on trial are the DOJ people who suborned perjury by threatening to prosecute non-crimes - just as Alvin Bragg is now prosecuting non-crimes.
You nailed it exactly.
And if Trump had reported it as a campaign contribution, they’d have prosecuted him anyway, on the grounds of violating campaign finance laws, since he used his own money. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.