BTRTN: It's My Pardon and I'll Try If I Want To
Born to Run the Numbers on Tuesday's two courtroom outcomes... and why Trump is more worried about Manafort than Cohen.
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2018/08/btrtn-its-my-pardon-and-ill-try-if-i.html
Excerpts: "If you want to know what has Trump seriously agitated, compare his reaction to the two seismic court cases... All Michael Cohen got from the Big Orange was a sarcastic late morning tweet: “If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the services of Michael Cohen!” Manafort, on the other hand, was treated like a returning prisoner of war...
"It is his mantra: 'no collusion, no collusion, no collusion!' It is as if Donald Trump himself is setting out to narrowly define the only possible finding that should be of any consequence, the only act that rises to the level of a 'high crime or misdemeanor.' In Trump’s world view, if Mueller were to find evidence of money-laundering, bank fraud, or that he paid for the silence of a porn star, none of that should matter. That is not what Mueller was charged to find. Evidence of those crimes would be tossed aside by Trump as evidence of the “witch hunt.” You can practically hear him: “Biased Mueller was supposed to investigate collusion, and couldn’t find any, so he is trying to reverse the 2016 election by searching through ancient history and digging up other things that don’t matter to the American people...
"So there you have the tale of two tweets. In the Cohen tweet, Trump was essentially sending word to his base that he wasn’t worried about his former lawyer. But in the Manafort tweet, he was talking directly to his now convicted former campaign manager: “Don’t worry, big guy. I still love you. Don’t forget the promise I made. Stay with me, baby.”
