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babylonsister

(170,963 posts)
Sun May 13, 2018, 07:21 PM May 2018

Did Michael Cohen Get $600,000 From AT&T so Trump Would Kill Net Neutrality and OK a Merger?



Did Michael Cohen Get $600,000 From AT&T so Trump Would Kill Net Neutrality and OK a Merger?
Michael Harriot
Thursday 10:44pmFiled to: Donald Trump


Whenever anyone asks, “Isn’t it funny how ... ,” they are usually accusing someone of something without explicitly saying it.

For instance: Isn’t it funny how your boyfriend always needs to go to the other room when he receives late-night texts? Isn’t it funny how we’ve never seen Sarah Huckabee Sanders in the same room with SpongeBob’s best friend, Patrick Star? Isn’t it funny how Tucker Carlson has never denied that he has a white robe and a matching pointed hood?

I would never accuse your boyfriend of cheating or Carlson of being a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Nor do I think that Sarah Sanders has a friend who lives in a pineapple under the sea.

I just find it all so funny.

Here’s another example: Don’t you find it funny that AT&T paid Michael Cohen’s shell company, Essential Consultants, $50,000 per month for all of 2017? Even though the $600,000 is 3.5 percent of all the money the huge corporation spends on lobbying, AT&T said Essential Consultants “did no legal or lobbying work for us, and the contract ended in December 2017,” according to the Washington Post.

Now, we know that Cohen is not a lobbyist, and he only had three clients, one of whom was Donald Trump. We also know that AT&T, as the No. 1 internet provider in the U.S., had a vested interest in dismantling net neutrality because the company stood to make a fortune if the regulations were nixed.

Now, I’m not accusing AT&T of bribing anyone, but I find it funny that the telecom behemoth began paying the money to Trump’s fixer, Cohen, the not-lobbyist, two months after AT&T announced that it would try to merge with Time Warner, the second-largest internet provider in America.


Again, I’m not trying to start anything, but Cohen, Trump’s fixer, who, AT&T said, did nothing for the company, began receiving these payments in January 2017, the month Trump took office. Now, it’s probably a hilarious coincidence that January 2017 was also the same month that Trump nominated Ajit Pai to head the Federal Communications Commission.

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Did Michael Cohen Get $600,000 From AT&T so Trump Would Kill Net Neutrality and OK a Merger? (Original Post) babylonsister May 2018 OP
Yep, and denying their merger was a payoff to Murdoch and a fuck you to CNN.... bettyellen May 2018 #1
Is a bear Catholic? edhopper May 2018 #2
If it only took 600K, AT&T would be ROTF LOL at the idiots in the WH Merlot May 2018 #3
Good point. But getting caught? Not so great. nt babylonsister May 2018 #4
 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
1. Yep, and denying their merger was a payoff to Murdoch and a fuck you to CNN....
Sun May 13, 2018, 07:28 PM
May 2018

The merger bribe would also have to be a lot bigger.

More names are sure to come out.

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
3. If it only took 600K, AT&T would be ROTF LOL at the idiots in the WH
Sun May 13, 2018, 08:31 PM
May 2018

that is chump change for the billions that they can earn.

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