Cohen should just tell the truth. How about that?
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I called it from the beginning. Delay, delay, delay. Doubt the judge will let them get away with this. Little too obvious.
They are just really, really trying to come up with a non-laughable argument about how those 25 or more NDAâs and corresponding hush money payments between David Dennison and multiple Peggy Petersens are protected by attorney-client privilege. And they need more time, because âargle bargle, something, something, therefore privilegedâ is not likely to work with Judge Wood.
Prosecutors must be mistaken.
Trump Org would never drag their feet simply because Cohen has nothing on them and Trump has does nothing wrong his entire life.
On Friday, the Trump Organization asked for two additional weeks to complete its review, saying a âpassword issueâ kept it from accessing a trove of documents until the middle of last week.
I hear this from my students all the time. Itâs the twenty-first century version of âMy dog ate my homework.â
Delay it further into the election cycle, claim victim status and pressure closure of investigation while you still have 3 branch controlâŚ
Probably give then an extra 24-48 hoursâŚ
How long could it take to review the materials of someone that handled only a âtiny, tiny fractionâ of his legal work?
Michael who again? Coen? Cowan? Cohn?
Collide the investigation with the midterm. GOP will enthusiastically support âwe need to park until election is over,â as precedent shows. Time and altitude bought for Agent Orange to improve chances of successful landing, which requires only that he walk away unscathed regardless of other damage.
I agree with Trump in one respect: Life is a zero-sum game. When someone despises you, they fear you, because you are unknown to them. I see this in some of my students. The Saudis who sit together in the back, when they actually attend class, who amaze me with their performance on exams. Did they cheat? How did they do it? They warily, silently, accuse me (not personally, but as a token) of hypocrisy. You Americans, you hate us so much, but look at yourselves, you think Democracy is a good thing? They see us and think: Democracy! Or they see us and think: you give a lot of lip service to it, but you sure donât seem to believe in it. Thinking about what they have idealized about Democracy, I realize that they are keepers of the flame, because behind their accusation they have an image of Democracy that we americans have lost sight of.
Itâs somewhat different with the African students. Very polite, but will try to manipulate you to increase their score when they donât participate and learn what they should, but will back down quickly. Respect. I donât feel that kind of respect from other students, especially the Nice Minnesotans among them.
Of course, not all African students do poorly. Some do extremely well, and you wonder what kind of education they got before coming here. The kind my faculty colleagues would kill for.
I could go on, but I see the game as being zero-sum. If the USA ceases to exist, either through self-destruction or mutually assured destruction, the better angels of our nature will still be present on the Earth, and the genetic code will be perpetuated elsewhere. In fact thatâs the model of evolution via natural selection. It requires diversity, survival, and extinction.
It will all work out in the end. Maybe not for us, and maybe not for Trump, and maybe not for a lot of collateral damage, but for the species Homo Sapiens, albeit with genotypic or phenotypic variation to be named later.
In response to this there has been a lot of talk about Mueller adjusting disclosures and possible indictments and the like so he doesnât do what Comey did to damage Hillary. In these cases with Cohen, Russia etc. I donât see why. Goose meet gander.
In this case itâs probably legit. Would you question it if anyone in the tRump Organization said they couldnât remember their password?
â⌠letâs see is it Trumpis#1 or TrumpKing#1 or KingTrump#1 or #1King=Trump or âŚ?â You can see their confusion.
Where did you hear 25 NDAs?
Now me, I want to find out about Ms. Becharâs (?) the lady that Broidy âsupposedlyâ knocked up. I mean heâs not famous or anything and $1.2M is a LOT for him to have paid for an abortion.
ok, but Iâll tell you Iâve lost an hour or two at work because of multiple password problems myself
One possibility for a semi-legitimate password issue is that Cohen was working for the trump organization all these years, and other people there may not have known the passwords he put on documents. And then they were too embarrassed to contact him to askâŚ
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Where did you hear 25 NDAs?
[/quote]I just made up a number. But, I wouldnât doubt that it could be that high.
Cohen looks sort of Hollywood in his shades and black shirt, and of course they should make a movie about this dung beetle when the dust settles. The delay tactics are obnoxious and juvenile. I would be very suprised if Kimba grants them anything. One bright spot in this is the pugnacious Stormy and her lawyer, always a pleasure to encounter in print. You go, Stormy girl!
Finally, I may live for many, many years, but once, just once, Iâd like to be called Special Masterâ it has quite a ring to itâŚsort of Star Wars meets a chess matchâŚ
I think you lowballed it. Always the gentleman.
Itâs only Monday. Give me to mid-week before you start accusing me of that gentleman crap when it comes to Trump.