Discussion: Trump Accuses Cohen, Who Implicated Him In A Crime, Of Lying

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Etc tu, Bluto?

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Kai su, fekknon?

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Hey LYING Trump, SAY IT UNDER OATH, “tiny”!

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"Trump called Cohen’s testimony “totally false” and called him “a PR person who did small legal work.” It was “very sad,” Trump said, that Cohen reached a plea deal with prosecutors “to “achieve a lighter sentence.”

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Sounds to me Trump is really dropping devils donuts in his pants because he knows Cohen does not have a plea agreement and he’s really worried about that.

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Are they triangular?

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I know this was done for his base but one would think that Law & Order and all it’s spin offs has been on the TV since 1990-2010 that his base would have picked up some legal knowledge.

And does anyone know what the hell Trump did before Fox News went on the air in 1996?

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And Donny he loses the deal if he lies or stops cooperating. Donny, you’re in deep shit. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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Actually Cohen doesn’t have a deal with the Special Prosecutor.

Cohen pleaded guilty to charges brought by federal prosecutors in New York City without having an agreement to cooperate with them or with Mueller.

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Side issue but on the impairment front the expression “small legal work” is a perfect example of the many times Trump reaches for the appropriate word and can’t find it. Normally you’d say “routine” legal work, “relatively unimportant” legal work, like that. But Trump, as he spoke, couldn’t remember where he’d left those words. The only one he could find in his memory was a much more common, general, concrete one: “small.” If you pay special attention to the more unfiltered side, the live interviews and so forth, you see him doing this more and more.

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A swing and a miss. lol
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Next pitch

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I’m taking another tack with this word choice, he used small because he wants to diminish Cohen, and used small to point out that Cohen was say just like the “coffee boy.” Using “routine” or “relatively unimportant” still gives Cohen some status. This is all about diminishing Cohen’s status. Similar to Trump using “strong” to defend Kavanaugh and MBS.
Strong= powerful, commanding
Small=insignificant, weak, unimportant, minor bit part

I do agree that his vocabulary choices could be written on a postage stamp. Trump could never win at playing a game of dozens.

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So much for Cohen’s complete abject loyalty for over a decade to trump. We all knw that Cohen was much more than a PR person. We know it from trump himself who called Cohen “My lawyer”. That isn’t a term used for PR work.

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Can you imagine trump trying to play Scrabble?

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As in small, but not freakishly.

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I find myself in the same boat actually. Since I retired I have noticed that there are times that I cannot find the word I want. I am acutely aware of it and it is very annoying. But then I am just a retired guy and not POTUS. Luckily I don’t seem to have trump’s many other personality disorder symptoms.

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You express yourself quite effectively. I had a friend who got worried about this in her early 50s and went to the doctor, who said look, your brain’s like a hard drive, it fills up and starts to do recall a little slower because it’s got more stuff to deal with. Plus when you’re tired, etc. He said it’s no big if you forget where your keys are. The thing to look into is if you can’t remember what keys are for. :smile: Serious about Trump, though. He makes odd word choices for which I think my theory is a pretty good explanation.

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My dear Mrs darr has a thing for rhubarb pie for her birthday which was yesterday. That taste of hers goes back 3 decades at least. I went to a local place yesterday looking for a treat for her and I just could not pull up the word “rhubarb” which ought to have been a really simple task. I had to pull my phone out and do a google search of pie flavors (for God’s sake) in hopes of stumbling on that damned word. I found it and felt really sheepish that it took a google search to prod my memory. I had to settle for a key lime pie cuz there was no rhubabrb anyway.

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All’s well that ends well—I love key lime pie and am ambivalent about rhubarb. Everybody blanks on a word now and then. That reminds me it was my birthday last week and nobody got me a pumpkin pie so I have to be my own best friend and do that yum. I’m not a huge fan of putting pumpkin spices in every damn thing but it sure goes in pumpkin pie pretty well.

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