Posted on 12/13/2018 5:46:24 AM PST by Moonman62
I never directed Michael Cohen to break the law. He was a lawyer and he is supposed to know the law. It is called “advice of counsel,” and a lawyer has great liability if a mistake is made. That is why they get paid. Despite that many campaign finance lawyers have strongly......
....stated that I did nothing wrong with respect to campaign finance laws, if they even apply, because this was not campaign finance. Cohen was guilty on many charges unrelated to me, but he plead to two campaign charges which were not criminal and of which he probably was not...
....guilty even on a civil basis. Those charges were just agreed to by him in order to embarrass the president and get a much reduced prison sentence, which he did-including the fact that his family was temporarily let off the hook. As a lawyer, Michael has great liability to me!
Trump to sue cohen? Collect from E&O policy?
Trump humor? I never had sexual relations...
Trump could have gone on to say, “Let’s not forget he recorded me, his client, without telling me in case he wanted to use it later for his own advantage.”
One might go back and ask about his law classes at Western Michigan University. I kinda doubt that he had a full appreciation of the law.
Another persuasive, truthful, issue-oriented tweet. Trump is on a roll.
Boom! Trump continues to impress anyone with more than three functioning brain cells, or a modicum of sanity/rationality. Just awesome.
Nothing to do with the case. The Cohen plea is a sweetheart deal. Just like when enviro activists sue the EPA to “force” them to do exactly what the EPA wanted to do in the first place. The case goes to court, and the EPA puts up a nominal objection but actually wants to lose the case.In this case Mueller wants Trump to look bad, so he puts the squeeze on Cohen - then tells him he’ll get off easy if he plead guilty to a “violation” of a law which implies that President Trump was in cahoots with Cohen in that violation.
Cohen, in this case, acts as if he’s the worst lawyer in the world (just as in the EPA example), pleading guilty to what is actually legal (if immoral, but after Slick Willie who’s counting?) behavior.
Cohen is cooperating in a Mueller double overstretch of the law: first, not every expense a candidate undertakes during a campaign is reportable as a “campaign expense.” The case would have to be made that Trump would not have done that if he hadn’t been running for POTUS in order for it to be such - a case that an awful lot of politicians would scream bloody murder if they were held to that standard (e.g., a congressional slush fund, paid by taxpayers, for exactly the same purpose is a lot worse than that).
If a Democrat - e.g., Barak Hussein Obama - does get caught in not reporting campaign funds correctly, it’s a “spitting on the sidewalk” offense. With Trump, there are cries for impeachment when the very people talking would probably be ensnared by the same law.
. . . which gets us to the nub of the issue: Campaign Finance “Reform” is unconstitutional. Nobody regulates the newspapers because of the First Amendment. And the newspapers can therefore “buy ink by the carload” and use it to promote whatever political campaigns they want. No “campaign finance reporting requirement” for them. The planted axiom of CFR is that “the media” aren’t “biased.” But being a journalist is not being a priest in a government-established religion (which 1A also forbids).
To give you an idea of how firm the footing of CFR is, McConnell v. FEC - which validated McCain-Feingold against a SCOTUS challenge - was a 5-4 decision (Sandra Day O’Connor deciding vote).
I see, it is illegal for Trump to use his attorney regarding campaign and other matters but for the dems to use that corrupt firm in Seattle to buy a piece of election garbage and sway the feds to begin a criminal investigation based upon lies and double hearsay is ok.
And who does Cohen hire? One Lanny Davis, who was quick to grease the skids for the compromise pleading of maximum harm to the president.
A lawyer has a personal and fiduciary duty to his client. An ethical attorney would never advise his client to break the law.
If Cohen performed illegal acts, it certainly wasn’t at Trump’s instigation. He did them of his own volition.
Cohen’s downfall came about because he believed he was above the law and he would never be caught,
That doesn’t make it Trump’s fault.
If he talked to the Prosecutors, he is not a good lawyer. Every lawyer I knew in Tampa, Florida advised not to talk with the police. He has shown himself to be a cry baby, along with being a liar, too. Whatever one thinks of Corsi and Stone, they are facing the music like men up to now.
When they raided his office and home they probably picked up evidence of many crimes. He had the option of spending 20 years and all his money fighting it or roll and give Mueller something that could embarrass Trump. The better he makes it the less time Mueller sends him up for. So he cops to a few piddling charges, lies about a few issues he knows can’t be countered by Trump and voila... He gets three years and gets to die in his lovely house many years down the line.
He gets cute with the Clintons and it won’t be many years before he is out of here. If you dig to the bottom of this bs, you will find a Clinton or two standing there. They both are charter members of the Deep State, a/k/a, New World Order.
A lot of the stuff they got in his office and house was withheld due to the attorney-client relationship between him and Trump. An ‘advice of counsel’ defense waives the right to that privilege, meaning all those withheld materials could become public.
Trump probably knows there is stuff in there that totally exonerates him and wants it out in public,
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