Is Nunberg drinking again? This is exactly the reason Trump did know about the extortion/bribery. Everything Trump has done since Cohen’s office and homes were raided is consistent with his guilt.
And probably the reason Trump didn’t let Cohen into the inner circle of the White House is because Cohen was making him too much money extorting corporations and Russian oligarchs.
Let’s step back for a second…
Cohen received Russian-linked payments
Met Pres. Trump in the Oval Office
Delivers proposal for lifting sanctions, in person, by hand – to then-National Security Advisor Flynn.
But we should go down the rabbit hole of whether or not Trump get’s mad when his bag man got paid for doing this?
More like, Trump doesn’t pay his bills.
I believe this is true! Trump thinks that money belonged to him.
I alone get to profit off of the works and likenesses of others.
Oh, Sam. Go home. Find some way to grow up. Then go out and try to make your way in the world again, because you’re lost now. I mean it. This is pitiful.
Heh.
What’s the point of conspiring with Russia if your underlings are the ones getting paid?
It would be more entertaining if he showed up in a clown costume.
…because “the President hates people making money off of him” and would keep someone like Cohen at arm’s length.
(Sotto voce aside to audience)
“Unless Trump is getting at least 20% of the action”
“The President hates people making money off of him.”
But he loves people making him money.
Where did all those millions go that Cohen collected?
Follow. The. Money.
For once there is a Trump minion telling the truth. Trump would be sad if anyone involved in deal with him walks away with a shirt on.
I think a part of this statement is missingj. Should read that Trump “hates people making money off of him unless he’s getting a cut of the deal.”
Trump is about to say that he didn’t really knew Cohen, other than a few times he sent him to fetch a big mac. I almost want to see Michael Cohen poisoned just to see Trumps reaction.
This whole fiasco has reached a point where I can not remember what this guy was yammering about a few weeks ago when he was drunk on the air.
My memory registers are full!
No. No cut. Trump must get it all!!!
At the same time, Trump has no problem shamelessly using whatever song he wants at his rallies without the artist’s authorization…
So, Sam, then why were Trump and his attorneys so eager to obtain intervener status and argue strongly against a taint team and even a special master? What’s the worry, then, if the ochreus one kept Cohen at arm’s (and tiny hands) length?
Nunberg is pitching this idea, while a few weeks ago Roger Stone was telling the Press that Cohen was consistently mistreated by Trump and would whine about not being involved… Seems like the Stone camp is trying to create the impression that distance existed between Trump and his fixer Cohen. This is all very believable.
Unless of course the money flowed through Cohen to Trump, then he’d be 100% for it. Which I don’t think we have established didn’t happen…
One more time: the MSM’s assumption that Trump knew nothing and was not in on this is a win for Trump. Essential Consultants, LLC was, painfully obviously, an old-timey slush fund of the kind the old party bosses and, more famously, Nixon always maintained. Stocked full of corrupt OPM and used for bribes, payoffs, hush money, hired goons, private eyes, and as the private cookie jar of the senior pols from time to time.
Trump and Cohen thought they were being very smart and slick and sophisticated using Delaware LLC secrecy and attorney client privilege to hide it. And so far, it’s still working a bit. But wait and watch. Once we get the disbursements instead of just the income…even then the MSM will probably be too goddamn obtuse to get it until someone comes and rubs their nose in it. Even after Bernstein comes on and spells it the fuck out for them, that’ll just be a thing Bernstein said, not what they see.