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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Fri Nov 30, 2018, 09:22 PM Nov 2018

DELICIOUS IRONY! Trump's current Cohen-fueled shit storm can be traced back to FOX & FRIENDS.

President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen was “under the impression” that he would receive a pardon if he remained loyal to the president, CNN reported Friday night.

Anderson Cooper broke the exclusive news, having reporter Gloria Borger on to explain what she’d learned.

“Michael Cohen was under the impression that if he stayed on message and continued to protect the president, that either a pardon or some kind of protecting would be in the offing for him,” she said. “We are unclear about who exactly conveyed that message to Michael Cohen, but we know that he came away early on saying, ‘OK, I’m in a good spot, I’m going to be protected. And we then know that everything kind of fell apart.”

Cohen knew Trump would not protect him after one of the president’s appearances on Fox & Friends, where he minimized the work that Cohen did for him, Borger reported.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/michael-cohen-impression-trump-pardon-loyalty-cnn-report/

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DELICIOUS IRONY! Trump's current Cohen-fueled shit storm can be traced back to FOX & FRIENDS. (Original Post) Miles Archer Nov 2018 OP
I was just reading up John Dean and Watergate marylandblue Nov 2018 #1
McGahn was said to be worried trump would set him up like Dean was set up empedocles Nov 2018 #2
There is so much in motion there is no way its going to end well for rump and family. nt UniteFightBack Nov 2018 #5
So, thanks to Watergate, all those years ago now.. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2018 #11
Suggest that the Watergate sequels, ala trump, will be much deeper. empedocles Dec 2018 #12
K&R Solly Mack Nov 2018 #3
Loyalty is one-way on Turbineguy Nov 2018 #4
Then Cohen is really dumb harumph Nov 2018 #6
Cohen may be dumb, but by mob rules empedocles Nov 2018 #7
About time those facists did something good for our country - even if inadvertently flibbitygiblets Nov 2018 #8
Also-if he thought he'd get a pardon, what about the state crimes? I know he's a shitty lawyer, but. flibbitygiblets Nov 2018 #9
Those who don't know the value of loyalty Marie Marie Nov 2018 #10

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
1. I was just reading up John Dean and Watergate
Fri Nov 30, 2018, 09:27 PM
Nov 2018

Dean decided to testify when he realized Nixon was setting him up to be the fall guy.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
2. McGahn was said to be worried trump would set him up like Dean was set up
Fri Nov 30, 2018, 09:39 PM
Nov 2018

McGahn said to have spent 40 hours with Mueller.

Hmmmmmm

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
12. Suggest that the Watergate sequels, ala trump, will be much deeper.
Sat Dec 1, 2018, 07:54 AM
Dec 2018

Watergate, while a number of top WH aides [including numbers 1 and 2, Haldeman and Erlichman], went to jail - Nixon went free and the serious stuff was covered up, [ no more 'wallowing in Watergate', 'the nation needs to heal' crap'. Fixer Ford [known in his career, only for manipulations'] was installed. Followed by the insidious Reaganhood [who gave to the rich by robbing from everyone else - income tax 'reform' 'reform' rates for the rich went from 90%+ to 39%?]. Great Scotus Justice Brandeis said, 'we can have great concentration of wealth, or democracy, - but not both'.

In the traitortrump sequel, if the republican party gets sufficiently disabled and Dems don't corrupt too much, real and extensive punishments and reforms may be enacted.

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
9. Also-if he thought he'd get a pardon, what about the state crimes? I know he's a shitty lawyer, but.
Fri Nov 30, 2018, 11:13 PM
Nov 2018

certainly someone would bring this to his attention at some point that a Federal pardon wouldn't necessarily keep his dumb ass out of prison.

Marie Marie

(9,999 posts)
10. Those who don't know the value of loyalty
Fri Nov 30, 2018, 11:21 PM
Nov 2018

can never understand the cost of betrayal. I think Trump is about to learn.

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