Cohen: I covered up Trump’s ‘dirty deeds’
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
President Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen says his “blind loyalty” to Trump led Cohen to “cover up his dirty deeds.”
Cohen said at his sentencing Wednesday that he takes “full responsibility” for the crimes he admitted committing. But he went on to say his allegiance to Trump led him “to take a path of darkness instead of light.”
Cohen has pleaded guilty to dodging taxes, lying to Congress and violating campaign finance laws.
Cohen, who used to be the president’s self-described fixer, could get about four to five years in prison.
His lawyer is arguing for leniency, noting Cohen’s cooperation with prosecutors investigating whether Russians attempted to influence Trump’s campaign.
But a prosecutor on the case against Cohen says Cohen’s crimes showed a pattern of deceit, brazenness and greed.
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* Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison - JR
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Donald Trump will dispute Cohen.
Since Trump is a pathological liar he cannot be believed.
The personal attorney for the president of the United States is now going to prison for committing crimes on behalf of the president.
There is little doubt this will eventually lead to impeachment.
LOL, so who was convicted of lying to Congress? But, of course, you will believe him becuase 'TRUMP'.
Still your President. LOL
Based on the last 2 years of your writings, I'd say the coffee grounds in the bottom of your cup will also lead to impeachment.
Thanks for the comic relief.
If you are proud that trump is your president, something is really wrong. Talk about setting the bar low.. Wow.
BOMBSHELL
National Enquirer parent company, AMI, said in a legal document today, that they paid off women on Trump's behalf for the purpose of keeping the withheld information from influencing the election.
Trump should resign now and spare the nation any more of this. It is only going to get worse and worse for him.
That's what an adult responsible President who cared about America would do, so there's no chance the man baby currently defiling the oval office would do anything of the sort.
Just read the book 'Fear' by Bob Woodward. Also read a few other books by Comey and others who all claim that Trump is likely the worst person on the planet and that America is suffering due to this ignorant piece of shit president.
National Inquirer?????? BBBBBRRRRRUUUUUUHHHHHHAAAAAHHHHHHAAAAA.
1st, I don't think you are up to speed on these things.
That wasn't a story in the National Enquirer, the kind that Trump once said they should win Pulitzer prizes for, it's the company stating in the legal documents what their owner and friend of Trump, David Pecker, did in regards to paying off a porn star and then squashing her story during the campaign.
"I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend David," Cohen said to Donald Trump on auto recordings of the conversation.
So if you're a Trump supporter, there's nothing in this story to laugh about.
And your rut is getting deeper and deeper John. You make a comment regarding the parent company of the National Inquirer who has the same standards of the National Inquirer and you EXPECT people to fall over themselves wallowing in your magnanimous self-love???
Get real - oh, have a Happy Holidays.
I respect your right to your opinion, but I dont think you keep up with this news enough to have a truly informed opinion about it.
When it came out last week that Cohen claimed that the payments were made to influence the election people wondered if the prosecutors had anything besides Cohen's words to corroborate that.
The AMI statement serves as a form of corroboration for Cohen's claim.
John - as do you, I keep up with the news that has an impact on me and my family and on items of interest to me and my family.
This constant bullshyte spouted 'bout Trump doesn't/won't have an impact on me nor my family nor is it of any interest to any 'cept the naysayers and haters of the party that lost the Presidential election.
And yet the SDNY isn't prosecuting AMI. It would be extremely unusual for a prosecutor to forego prosecuting Party A because they cooperated in prosecuting Party B for doing the exact same thing. It's obvious discrimination. The usual course is to forego prosecuting Party A because they helped them prosecute Party B for doing something far worse. The politics of this are obvious.
Just read Woodward's FEAR. This president is totally insane.
Obviously not. Trump will be wearing a prison orange jump suit before long.
His shyster just got three years. Trump will likely get longer.
You accuse Trump of being a pathological liar but you want us to believe the National Enquirer.
So because they often run stories chock full of lies, distortions and deflections, often praising Trump while vilifying liberals and progressives, their parent company AMI shouldn't be believed in a court filing? You believe they would treat a statement made to a judge the same as a fluff piece in their rag magazine? I mean, I've heard of being gullible but that bizarre flawed opinion takes it to a whole new level.
you do know what parent company means right? again this is not really difficult because the name is provided for you!!
I know they claimed repeatedly for months that they paid money for editorial reasons, and not to influence the election. Why should we believe them now? Because Democrats prefer this new lie?
The right wingers loved the National Enquirer when it ripped the John Edwards story.....
So when not under oath responding to reporters questions their spokesperson lied about their reasons for paying off a porn star and squashing a story, then faced with the evidence, they have under oath admitted to the court they did in fact make a payment to suppress a story and prevent it from influencing an election and to protect a specific candidate.
The legal system doesn't care what might have been said not under oath by random surrogates, they care only about what is said under oath which can be prosecuted if found to be false. That's why we have tens of thousands of people initially pleading not guilty to crimes but when faced with the evidence they take a plea deal and must, under oath, admit to their crime which our justice system accepts as proof of their guilt.
AMI chose to admit fault and pay some fines but avoid further prosecution that could have seen David Pecker seeing jail time. You can choose not to believe them if you wish, you can even disbelieve the Hollywood Access tape, the mountains of lies Trump has told, you might even refuse to believe the pee tape when it eventually gets released, that's your choice, but don't expect the rest of America to look the other way while the petulant criminal man baby continues to destroy American credibility and embarrass us around the world. If Trump weren't President right now, he would be under indictment for this crime which, by definition, means he not only thinks he's above the law, he technically is, for now. If the political candidate you prefer to support is literally only staying out of criminal prosecution by his position in the government, I'd recommend taking a good long look at why you want to support an unindicted coconspirator of a federal crime, not poo poo'ing the evidence against him.
I've never actually seen one off the rack at the local Supermarket. The cover is enough top keep me moving right on by.
C'mon Trout - not a damn one of the space invaders stories or Angelina having quadripulets or Elvis living in Manhatten or even John Edwards is new news. What, something like 12 years ago?????
C'mon, First! You know when that story broke people like me said "meh....it's the Enquirer, it's all BS"
And then it turned out to be true and everybody stopped in their tracks. Everybody.
But....this isn't about the Enquirer breaking a story. It's about their parent company copping a plea. Big difference
It's been in the news a few times that NE was supporting trump by trying to hide certain stories about trump. And now the NE is rolling over on trump.
Seriously... It's now everyone else's word against a POTUS that literally lies 80% of the time. Who are YOU going to believe? LOL
Bingo... This is the same thing most of the people on the right usually do. Support something as long as it fits their agenda, then cut ties and run as soon as they, (it), comes clean...
Remember when Rudy was screaming that Cohen was an honest and honorable man with tons if integrity? Now all the sudden he is a liar and a POS, (etc. etc. etc.). All about the agenda, truth be damned.
Did you believe the National Enquirer when they broke the John Edwards scandal ? They were sure on the money with that one.
But as John explained, this matter has nothing to do with the validity of the publication it self.
It doesn't take the National Enquirer to know that Trump is a pathological liar.
I know what I know about Trump's negative insanities because he is too stupid and narcissistic to try to hide them. The fool thinks he is some sort of a god when what he suffers from is Dunning-Kruger effect.
And then we get Pence who ran a city into the ground and $ucks Koch cock. Owned by the Kochs.
im positive of Trumps negatives as well
Fox’s Judge Andrew Napolitano: Prosecutors Have ‘Damning’ Evidence Donald Trump Committed a Felony
Fox News judicial analysis Judge Andrew Napolitano said President Donald Trump could potentially be facing serious legal consequences based on evidence prosecutors claimed they have.
Following the sentencing of Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen, Napolitano told Fox News host Shepard Smith that prosecutors in New York City have evidence the president committed a felony. The felony, Napolitano explained, was when Trump allegedly ordered and paid Cohen to commit a crime.
While the specific details have not been shared with the public, Napolitano said prosecutors told the judge about Trump’s alleged payments. Under the rule of law, Napolitano explained, prosecutors can’t tell a judge that without having hard evidence to back up the claim and intend to do something with that evidence.
“The felony is paying Michael Cohen to commit a felony,” the judge said. “It’s pretty basic.… A hires B to shoot someone, A is as liable as if he had pulled the trigger. You pay someone to commit a crime you are liable, criminally liable.”
Napolitano admitted that he did not know what the prosecutors know, but he said that prosecutors had to corroborate the evidence through documents or interviews. It’s unclear if they have evidence of Trump’s intent, although the judge claimed that it doesn’t really matter.
“Under the law, a person is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of their behavior,” he said. “You pay your lawyer to commit a crime, you presume to intend for him to commit it.”
He called the revelation that prosecutors claim to have evidence of Trump committing a felony to be the most “damning and novel information” to be released on Friday. Napolitano added that the announcement of the settlement with American Media, Inc. (AMI) was the “last piece of the puzzle” in the case.
“The admission by AMI that the whole purpose for doing this was to influence the outcome of the election, that makes it a campaign expenditure, the failure to report which is a felony,” Napolitano told Smith.
As for how Trump’s lawyers are handling the situation, Napolitano said it should be taken with “great gravity” and warned Trump about being too confident that he's out of legal harm's way.
“No rational person could construe this as exoneration unless they’re escaping reality,” the judge said. “He is in the crosshair of two federal prosecutors’ offices in his own Department of Justice.”
On Wednesday, the State Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York (SDNY) said AMI admitted to paying $150,000 to ensure Playboy model Karen McDougal did not go public with allegations that she had an affair with Trump. The payment was made “in concert with” Trump’s campaign ahead of the presidential election, according to SDNY.
On Wednesday, Cohen was sentenced to 36 months in prison for charges that included campaign finance violations and lying to Congress.
https://www.newsweek.com/andrew-napolitano-fox-news-prosecutors-have-damning-evidence-trump-committed-1256353?utm_source=Public&utm_medium=Feed&utm_campaign=Distribution
If Cohen is guilty of campaign finance laws.....then so is trmp, right? I mean....who did Cohen help during the campaign? It certainly wasn't Hillary Clinton
hey , Trump has NOT been found
at
the lost n found...
yet
Something in my mind
Tells me Trump is not so kind
This winter storm kills
sure hope so
The politics of this are so obvious. The focus is on campaign finance law, but there is no way the government would have won a case on that charge at trial.
Everyone ignores the fact that Cohen is pleading guilty to eight charges , including years of tax evasion to the tune of $4 million, committing fraud to get bank loans, and lying to Congress. Every one of those charges is far more serious than the alleged campaign finance violation.
Even if he lost at trial on the campaign finance charge, he likely would have only paid a fine.
They have made Cohen their puppet. He was looking at 4 or 5 years, and will instead get 36 months. He'll probably only serve half of that. The price is that he had to plead guilty to a charge they could never prove at trial and make a statement intended to embarrass the president.
And the media is complicit. Most headlines are like this lie, which reads:
He's not going to prison because he gave money to some woman.
you either need trump in your life to function or you like the fact that he has so many fires burning you like the warmth of them.
in your most recent comments you want to brush everything off to political puppets and payments. sadly what seems to be lacking in your support of him, is his own actions and comments to questions that will be stated under oath.
And it could all be based on the money he gave some woman. ( a lie here is a lie there)
Thank you so much for addressing the content of my comment instead of engaging in ad hominem attacks. How refreshing and unusual.
/s
Why do intelligent people insist on defending Donald Trump? If there has ever been an indefensible individual in national politics in our lifetimes, it is this clown Trump.
Some people, voters, willfully made themselves blind to his crimes, lies, cons, cheating bullying and witless blowharding, for years now, all just to get a non-liberal into power.
You bet on a bad horse, and the whole fricking thing is going to come tumbling down. All Trump supporters will be shown to have been either fooled or fools.
I think you have some good theories on why people keep on defending the man
I don't necessarily disagree with people who feel "disenfranchised" being attracted to a populist politician. People who feel unrepresented by the power elite have been known to try and organize or "protest" to try and improve their lives through politics.
I don't think, in fact I know, Trump was never the answer.
Donald trump was a BIRTHER in 2011. In fact he was the king birther. He was at the time, and going forward, a despicable individual. He lied about Obama and lied to the media at that time when he said he had detectives out in Hawaii who were discovering incredible things about Obama's birth. That was all lies from Trump, and lies he told on a large national stage.
When he ran seriously for president 4 years later everyone should have been extremely leery of him and took a little time to look into him. It was also KNOWN , at the time Trump began to run in 2015, that he had been credibly accused of defrauding hundreds of people through his bogus Trump University.
Was there no one else that can run for president and represent the "disenfranchised" "deplorables" ? This lifelong criminal is the only one? I don't believe that.
he plead guilty to 8 felonies and will lose his meal ticket, his Attorneys license.
There is a LOT more to it and you know it. Downplaying it will not lighten the consequences for the liar/cheater in chief.
Prison for trumpy? I would be surprised if it comes to that, but I doubt he will be president after the next elections. Hell, I will be shocked if he finishes his term.
I'm not the one downplaying it. It's the press that's downplaying it. They want you to believe he went to prison because he paid off some strippers who claim they slept with Trump. That is not why he's going to prison.
yeah ok as if your comments suggest anything but your annoyance of members who recognize that trumps actions now have consequences that you wont acknowledge.
are you sure you want to act like a educated person should disregard the fact that Choen, DID pay a stripper that is confirmed to have had sex with the current president, as something to be seen as NORMAL, really.
the press doesn't have to suggest which part of the choen actions determined the convictions. they only have to provide that he is going to prison for enough violations of law that paying off a stripper can be included in ANYONE'S assumption of why he is going.
for some odd reason here and up the thread you seem hell bent on suggesting that the stripper issue on its own should not change how someone should form an opinion of the current presidents ability to tell the truth.
or did you miss the president saying( back in the beginning) that no money was paid to any stripper. UGH
To be fair, no one has suggested a stripper has had sex with the current president. I believe the allegation was that they had sex 10 or 12 years ago when Trump was a private citizen.
I don't know about "normal" but scandals are common with rich and famous people and they often pay off their accusers whether they did something wrong or not.
Correct. They are free to mislead. That's the 1st Amendment at work.
Oh it has an impact, but a small one. I feel the same way about Trump that I did about Clinton. i.e., I disapprove, but realistically, I don't expect any man to tell the truth about his illicit sexual affairs. I ultimately didn't see it impacting the way Clinton ran the country and I don't see it affecting Trump's administration either.
There are a whole lot of reasons why Trump is going to prison.
He only got 3 years because he turned on Trump.
I bought Boy Scout popcorn to watch the show to come.
It sure doesn't seem that way. The prosecutor complained that Cohen did not cooperate in the way that they had hoped. For that reason, they asked the court for 3 1/2 years. Also, you don't usually sentence a guy that you plan to use as a witness at trial until after he actually testifies. Of course the Special Prosecutor could be a . . . erm . . . special case, but this makes it looks as if they have no intention of prosecuting Trump for anything Cohen told them.
wrong
How about obstruction of justice? He admitted on TV that he fired Comey because of that "Russian thing".
That isn't necessarily a problem. In his termination letter to Comey, Trump acknowledged that Comey had told him three times he wasn't under investigation, so it's hard to see Trump firing him to protect himself. I guess maybe you could argue he was trying to protect Michael Flynn, but that doesn't seem that nefarious, especially considering the very mild disposition he ended up with.
Maybe he just didn't like the circus atmosphere surrounding Comey regarding the investigation. That's certainly the kind of thing for which people in both parties have criticized him.
The bottom line is the president does have full authority to fire the FBI Director and he had letters from both the AG and the Assistant AG recommending it. He can have a whole basket of reasons, some of which you may or may not like, but proving that he abused his authority is going to be very difficult. It would also be difficult to show that it actually impeded the investigation because the investigation just rolled right along and Trump made no effort to stop it.
I hope he spills the beans on Sean Hannity before he goes to club fed.
The incoming Attorney General of New York State has pledged to go after Trump and the Trump family on a variety of fronts related to financial wrongdoing as individuals and as the Trump Organization.
The nightmare has just begun for the First Criminal Family.
Incoming New York AG Vows to Go After Trump and His ... - Law & Crime
Guess who just got sentenced to 3 years. Trump will look good in orange.
hes one color
straight
threw
away the key
your puppies would love that one
LOL
They say dogs are color blind, But bright colors do seem to catch their eye so... Yep !! It'd certainly be a rag doll within minutes.
Supposed intelligent people still defend the POS orange conman traitor in chief. The world is watching, laughing and mocking us.
POS orange conman traitor in chief is "America's Embarrassment"....sigh!
Cohen's testimony is what will sink trump.....thankfully.
Trump lies ~80% of the time. How any of his supporters can say, with a straight face, "Everyone else is lying about trump, Donny is telling the truth", is both amazing and disturbing at the same time.
I remember with trumpy said the whole Stormy Daniels thing was fake news...
Oops.. LOL
This just gets better and better... LOL
Just finished reading Woodward's book FEAR. This lying scumbag asshole should not be POTUS.
Trump’s kids are next in the barrel. Somebody in the Trump organization signed checks to reimburse Cohen for committing felonies on Donald Trump’s behalf and at his direction. Hopefully by the end of this reality series they will all be fitted with orange jumpsuits.
LOCK HER UP
LOCK HIM UP
LOCK EM ALL THE FUCK UP
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Disgusting Family, the Whole lott,(Barron gets a pass)
.
They SO DESERVE IT
how many TRULY GREAT Americans, lost life and limb to Defend and form this once Great country...
so this mentally deficient non efficient piece of SHIT can't,
though as hard as he might try, spit in everyones damn eye while attempting to wipe his fat ass width our Constitution he would use asz TP,
cAusz DT attempts everyday to alarm
clock ted inn
record time, while taped like a duct tape
worm, to an old washed up salty
daffy duct taped taffy who Bugs elementary school porno playmate Bunnys in cooler times as it gets HOT.
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hopin he self combusts