Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
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Is this relevant?
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Got the same thing too
Are they, or the judge, required to publicly disclose their reasons?
While I agree with this in the current state of affairs, I’m not entirely sure it will hold if evidence of unambiguous and rampant criminality of a particularly sleazy sort is revealed. Things such as sex with russian women, bigly money laundering, records of conversations with Russian mobsters and the like. At some point even the most stalwart Trump defender starts to worry about his or her own survival. At that point he’s getting thrown under the bus faster than you can blink. Even the rabid 30% has their tipping point.
Hey, a guy can dream can’t he?
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Very good, very sly.
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Mikey is weak, and he’s stupid.
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There is a book, “When Prophecy Fails”, which documents what happens in a doomsday-cult, when the world does not come to and end…
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No. Trump could be proven to have delivered the nuclear launch codes directly to Putin and insufficient GOP Senators would be found to impeach him.
“Well, we’ll just have to change the codes, and tell Donnie not to do it again. He means well. And there’s that new tax bill we should all be concentrating on. Whatcha gonna do?”
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I recall that very issue coming up for Gates. Attorneys petitioning for release from the case for reasons they wouldn’t disclose in open court, followed by Several days of a new attorney being named in the press but not officially the attorney of record.
The upshot was, I believe, that he lied during the proffer (which is both ballsy and stupid). Of course Cohen has not yet been indicted- so I think the bar for attorneys dropping representation is a lot lower. But still I’m insatiably curious
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Whoa. I didn’t know his lawyers quit.
Cohen is left with almost no options here, other than bad ones.
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Probably a conflict of interest. They’re being paid by the trump campaign (not particularly Kosher anyway) and now they are in clear conflict between Cohen and the campaign.
Let it be NY authorities who send NY State Troopers and the NYPD to take him into custody on state charges first. Just to signal the Orange Custard Bag that a pardon isn’t going to help.
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Could it be that he misled his lawyers in a way that might have made them part of a criminal enterprise?
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Sometimes the things that stun me are the obvious ones. Within days of learning that the first tranche of six figures worth of documents were delivered to prosecutors, with only 126 deemed attorney-client privileged, we learn that Cohen is a) expecting to be arrested, b) planning to cooperate and c) about to part ways with his lawyers. As soon as he knows prosecutors have laid eyes on his documents, he knows he’s screwed. Think about that.
And as to the lawyers, here’s a thing that may not be obvious to non-lawyers: there are basically only four ways to get fired by your own attorneys: 1) don’t pay them, 2) persistently refuse to follow their advice, 3) lie to them, 4) try to entangle them in the commission of a crime. (Okay, yeah, the discovery of a non-waivable conflict is a fifth way that encompasses no. 4).
My money is on number 3, though four isn’t out of the question. He has the money and if they advised him not to plead and he chose to do it anyway, they’d stick around and hold his hand through it.
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It’s a Double Depends day with a side of immodium.
“You broke my heart, Fredo!”
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Cohen firing his lawyers is kinda like when people “resign” instead of being fired. Like Nixxon.
I’m thinking its a combo:
Cohen is broke.
The lawyers freaked out when combing through the files. They realized he lied through his teeth to them and he is so covered in slime to be undefendable.
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Michael Cohen says he’s depressed,
Although in a plaid jacket he is not dressed.
A blue suit’s more serious
With a case deleterious.
He’ll feel better once he’s confessed.
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He’ll be fine as long as he says a “hail mary” first.
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