Trump: "I never directed Michael Cohen to break the law."

[Miles Archer]

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I never directed Michael Cohen to break the law. He was a lawyer and he is supposed to know the law. It is called “advice of counsel,” and a lawyer has great liability if a mistake is made. That is why they get paid. Despite that many campaign finance lawyers have strongly......

6:17 AM - 13 Dec 2018

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....stated that I did nothing wrong with respect to campaign finance laws, if they even apply, because this was not campaign finance. Cohen was guilty on many charges unrelated to me, but he plead to two campaign charges which were not criminal and of which he probably was not...

6:25 AM - 13 Dec 2018

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....guilty even on a civil basis. Those charges were just agreed to by him in order to embarrass the president and get a much reduced prison sentence, which he did-including the fact that his family was temporarily let off the hook. As a lawyer, Michael has great liability to me!

6:39 AM - 13 Dec 2018

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[underpants]

1. I have to be at work at 8:15

Just saying.

[Pachamama]

2. Yeah right - because everyone knows that Lawyers just do what they want and aren't under direction

....from clients....

And it looks like good buddy David Pecker at AMI directed his National Enquirer to make payments on their own too?

WOW!!!

Thou protesteth too much Donny.... the walls are closing in

[brush]

27. And we all heard the tape of him and Cohen hatching their payoff scheme.

[Va Lefty]

3. 5 references to himself in 3 tweets

Jackass

[Miles Archer]

10. He MISSPELLED two of those tweets

I tried to grab them for this post but he had already deleted and re-tweeted them.

[C_U_L8R]

4. The Trumpturd doth protest too much... methinks

Got something to hide, Donny ?

[riversedge]

5. Rudy, watch out. You are next to get dissed by Donald. Coming soon.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

24. rudy tried to tell him what excuse to make

TrumPutin couldn't get it all in his head, but he tried repuking what the Rude Ghoul told him was a good excuse.

Too bad all those lawyers, the judge, FBI agents and Cohen disagree with Dumb Donald's characterization of the plea, guilt, and law.

[Stuart G]

6. Trump can tweet what he wants. It won't matter, he is "toast"......"burnt toast"

Trump will sing a song,
When he is gone.
It is not sad,
That he is mad.
Time to go.
And it will be so...........

[ProfessorGAC]

7. "Find A Way To Make This Happen"

That's the kind of language he probably used. That said, notable in it's absence would be the word "legal" before the word "way".

Poor baby is finding his deniability gambit is on thin ice.

[Moostache]

8. I hate that man's very existence...

Universal karma, please explode his heart and end the scourge of the age. PLEASE??!!!???

[Zoonart]

9. Ignorance of the law:

Ignorantia juris non excusat[1] or ignorantia legis neminem excusat[2] (Latin for "ignorance of the law excuses not"[1] and "ignorance of law excuses no one"[2] respectively) is a legal principle holding that a person who is unaware of a law may not escape liability for violating that law merely because one was unaware of its content.

[kentuck]

11. But he knew he was breaking the law.

Just give him money. He knew what needed to be done.

No collusion!

[MineralMan]

12. Notably, this was written by a lawyer, not Trump.

Trump is not capable of writing such a thing.

[Docreed2003]

14. Rudy perhaps?

It reads like a Rudy statement to me

[MineralMan]

15. I don't know. I just know that Trump isn't capable

of writing that many words on any subject. I'm not sure about Giuliani, either.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

25. smells like a mangled version of Rude Ghoul

(I should've read the whole thread before speculating about this above).

This looks to me like he was tweeting what somebody tried to tell him is his 'out'. Whether they believed it or not is another question. They may have been trying to stop a tantrum and this was the best they could come up with.

[EleanorR]

17. agreed, he did not write this nt

[Johonny]

18. Those charges were just agreed to by him in order to embarrass the president

"The President"

Trump would have written me had he wrote it.

[PJMcK]

33. Not necessarily

Trump has often referred to himself in the third person. For example, in the confession interview with Lester Holt, he said, (paraphrasing), "This Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story."

There are many more examples and I've always thought it was odd.

[Docreed2003]

13. Oh sweet 8lb9oz baby Jesus....

Please let there be tapes of Trump "directing"
Cohen...

[Jarqui]

16. The judge agreed with this

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/07/politics/michael-cohen-robert-mueller-donald-trump/index.html
"In particular, and as Cohen himself has now admitted, with respect to both payments, he acted in coordination with and at the direction of Individual-1." (Trump)

That is now the finding of this court.

[Blue Owl]

19. I hope there are wiretap recordings of trump telling cohen to pay the hush money

Somehow I have a feeling there are...

[BSdetect]

20. What happened to "the buck stops here"?

You hired these "best people" and left them without any instructions?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

21. Uh huh

[edhopper]

22. Ignorance of the Law is not a defense

If your accountant cheats on your taxes, you are still guilty.

If you didn't know shooting a man in the face on 5th Avenue was a crime, you would still be charged.

[Volaris]

23. 'i never directed Micheal Cohen to break the law'

It's gonna be so fuckin awesome when there's tape to the contrary lol!

[bullimiami]

28. Next is. "I never directly directed Micheal Cohen to break the law"

[Volaris]

32. Exactly. And then: I don't remember directing....

And then: I didn't know that directing was illegal
And then: directing shouldn't be illegal
And then: this is a witch hunt

And then: he will go to prison.

[harumph]

26. OMG Pathetic

[uponit7771]

29. Nah, he just asked Cohen nicely

[BlueTsunami2018]

30. Echoes of "I am not a crook".

Yeah, you did.

[smirkymonkey]

31. Oh, stuff it already!