Michael Cohen whined that nobody loves him anymore, and he was “coerced” into testifying in Trump’s criminal trial. That led Trump to call Cohen up and curse him out.
Oh, wait; it didn’t:
Referring to Cohen as a “Star Witness,” Trump wrote, “When a Star Witness totally recants, and in every way reveals that he was pressured and coerced to give testimony, and when the Prosecutor admits that this Witness was the single reason that the case was brought, there was no other, how can that Case not be immediately dismissed? That is exactly what happened in the Democrat New York Attorney General and Manhattan District Attorney’s Hoaxes against me. Michael Cohen has come out and unequivocally stated that the Radical Left Prosecutors, Tish James and Alvin Bragg, pressured and coerced him to testify against your favorite President, ME, when they made him the key player in their Political Witch Hunts.”Yeah, that’s not what happened at all. The civil case took weeks, the criminal case took almost as long, and Cohen was a minor witness in both. Trump was up at 1 AM whining like a child about how unfair it was that he was held responsible for what he did. This is how Trump talks. It’s always about “ME.” He’s always the victim. And he always punches down. Or attacks his “opponents” from a safe distance, and never face to face. Trump is never braver than when he’s by himself.
Incorrectly asserting, “Now that his testimony is wiped away,” he added, “and the unAmerican, Political Charade ‘Cases’ are even further discredited, they should be put out of their misery, and dismissed, once and for all. Our Constitution, and the Rule of Law, demand immediate and swift dismissal, as well as for the Perpetrators of the Radical Left Lawfare and Weaponization to be held criminally responsible for their terrible misdeeds. We have to restore Confidence and Honor in our Justice System. I am an innocent man who has been horribly treated. Hopefully the Courts will do what everyone knows should be done. Thank you! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
I expect to see this, verbatim, in pleadings before the New York Court of Appeals, soon. I think both cases are still there. I’m sure it will be a winning legal argument.
What Cohen found out is that you can turn over a new leaf and repent of your years of being a sleazbag, trash-talking gangster lawyer once but if you revert, you've destroyed your credibility with the ones who were ready to welcome your new page but the gangsters weren't going to trust you again, either. As I recall a lot was made of him having gone to the lowest-ranked law school. You have to wonder if that doesn't have something to do with him not realizing that obvious truth. Though even the best law school product seems to have at best a vague and unreliable conception of truth.
ReplyDeleteLeopards don’t change their spots. Scaramucci did/has done enough to convince people he’s not a sleaze anymore. Cohen doesn’t seem to understand it’s an ongoing process. I’m not condemning him, but I’m not weeping for him, either.
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