Things just got a little bit worse for Donald Trump at a time when things really didn’t need to get any worse.
Last week, The New York Times reported that the President’s personal fixer and sorta-lawyer, Michael Cohen, recorded a conversation with Trump that revolved around payments to Karen McDougal, the Playboy model who said she had an affair with then-candidate Trump.
The FBI, apparently, seized that recording in the April raid on Cohen’s offices.
Since that raid, Cohen has been fighting to fend off a deluge of truly horrible press and damning revelations about payments made to a consulting firm he ran — payments which included money linked to a Russian oligarch with whom Cohen met at Trump Tower just 11 days before the inauguration.
In June, ABC reported that Cohen is now likely to cooperate with federal prosecutors and earlier this month, he indicated that he is not in fact prepared to go down with Trump’s ship, telling George Stephanopoulos that when push comes to shove, “my wife, my daughter and my son have my first loyalty and always will.”
Cohen would subsequently hire Lanny Davis, a Washington lawyer known best for his services to the Clintons. Davis said this on July 5:
Like most of America, I have been following the matter regarding Michael Cohen with great interest. As an attorney, I have talked to Michael many times in the last two weeks. Then I read his words published on July 2, and I recognized his sincerity.
The “words published on July 2” bit there was a reference to the Stephanopoulos interview.
Well, on Tuesday night, Davis showed up on CNN and guess what he brought with him? The tape. Here it is:
Davis would go on to give an interview with Chris Cuomo, but the bottom line here is that irrespective of what is or isn’t proven by the tape, Michael Cohen is going to flip on Donald Trump. Here’s Davis:
Alan Dershowitz dutifully showed up to defend the President, but his two-part warning for Trump sounded rather dire.
First of all, Dershowitz notes that Lanny Davis is no Michael Avenatti. Then, he says this:
Got that? Here it is again:
He’s going to flip. There’s no question. He’s now made it clear…he said he’s going to tell the truth. He’s going to cooperate. He’s turned. He’s pressed the reset button.
Fortunately, “what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening”….
TRUMP tells his audience, "just remember, what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening." #WarIsPeace pic.twitter.com/dj2fvoa3ok
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 24, 2018
Sorry donny it is happening, it is real because one lie requires two to cover-up the first. So how hard is it to cover-up a lifetime of lying every day of your dreadful existence.
Just more three-dimensional chess on Trump’s part. He coordinated this “leak” so that the chattering liberal fake news media would go agog at it and figure Trump would go on a Twitter rant in the morning. That way, when Trump announces new tariffs on China and a complete shutdown on goods coming from Canada, Germany, and other evil countries on Twitter tomorrow morning, people will say, “Oh, that’s just Trump reacting badly like always,” and won’t realize that really what’s happening is Trump’s continuing plan to dismantle the globalist trade system that has been stealing off the backs of American workers. That way, Trump will accomplish his goal of ending evil globalism, but people will be so distracted by this meaningless scandal that they won’t see what is happening in time to pull out their investments and cause the stock crash that the globalists are waiting for. So all is well that ends well except that Trump gets his reputation dirtied a bit, but he doesn’t mind about that. He’s taking one for the team here.
And that’s what happened.
You forgot the sarcasm tag