+Daniel Crow, MSNBC was all over it last night! That's why tRump's former lawyer, Jay Goldstein, started to 'flip' the narrative to read that if Cohen did 'flip', it would be a 'false confession'. Nice try at strategy but, not so strong when the prosecutors have the {no doubt} HUGE amount of digital & print evidence of everything Cohen has done and/or said. ...allegedly... Peace.
Everyone is guilty of something if investigated. The question is decree. Muellet doesn't give a shit about porn stars and Michael Cohen. Mueller is aiming higher. Butt he's smart enough to let someone else aim low just in case.
Mueller does care about Cohen paying off porn stars. The tools of espionage are blackmail and money. Cohen has many family and business connections in the Ukraine and Russia. Where did all the money come from to pay off Trump women?
The truly shocking thing is not that Trump is more fixated on potential disloyalty than he is on culpability or potential legal jeopardy; it's that someone with that kind of disturbed brain function is the President of the United States. Putin is probably having to wear an adult diaper while watching all this happening, because he can't control his bodily functions while laughing that hard....
Can someone explain me this: if you are an innocent man, victim of a conspiracy and a witch hunt, why are you worried about your attorney flipping on you? Why even mentioning it?
Jason Blade Because he's not innocent. No innocent person would react the way Trump does. They'd work with the special counsel and be fine about it because they'd know the investigation wouldn't find anything yet Trump keeps calling it a witch hunt, says he's thinking about firing Mueller and people around him think Cohen will flip. Innocent isn't something you think of in regards to that kind of behaviour... well unless you're a Trump supporter still, they twist anything to make it look like Spanky is right and everyone is out to get them. I'm sure in the comments or in this comment thread there will be one saying 'Fake News' or referring to Hilary, Libtards, fake MSM, Colbert being a propagandist and his viewers being brainwashed. You can't reason with these people and they like to make out there's a majority of them. Newsflash: They're the minority and they're going to find that out in November
Trump is a paranoid germaphobe. He even eats McDonalds because he thinks his food can be poisoned. So, it is very easy to make him afraid of something. And Fox is very good at scare mongering. So they created the narrative that there is a liberal extremist deep state that is trying to get rid of Trump.
It's taken me way too long to realize that no President should use the word "flip," he should have told Michael Cohen to "cooperate" with law enforcement. How far have we fallen?
Frater Prometheus True. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear from the FBI, law enforcement, etc (particularly true at that level). But I suspect he wants as few people to cooperate as possible, hence his shift to talking about pardons again. That he's fighting the same US law enforcement and intelligence agencies that work to keep us safe from terrorism is telling enough for me as it is, and that's just the tip of the berg.
Brian Smith we'll see. I hope you're wrong, but I worry that you may be right. There's probably only but so much he can pardon without incriminating himself... least, I sure hope that's the case. I'm of the mind that Justice ought not to blindfold itself based on who knows who, much less what side of a political divide anyone is standing on. That said, I hope Arpaio has learned his lesson and stays well enough away from this whole mess, even if he got off early. That strikes me as his luck and nothing else, and luck is unreliable. Has he pardoned Flynn or Padapolous (or was it Carter Paige? Ah, too much to remember), though? Manafort? They're cooperating with the council, so I think the answer isn't strictly doom and gloom. That said, Mueller scares these law-breaking big-shots so badly that their testes migrate north, so I'm not sure we have to be overly concerned regarding pardon power... It may be somehow else that he's convincing them to jump ship, but again, we'll see. Could be Trump's afraid of him, too.
Brian Smith Legally, accepting a pardon is an automatic admission of guilt. Also, the President can only pardon federal crime, not state crime. That's one reason Mueller is handing cases to the district courts, so they can't be pardoned. Another reason is that if Mueller is fired, multiple states as well as the DOJ can pick up right where he left off with an extra load of evidence of obstruction.
It's extraordinary to see the Presidents and First Ladies of the last 3 decades at a funeral while the sitting president tweets like a crazy person 25 times!! Wtf America. I strongly disagreed with Bush policies, especially the younger, but I take no pleasure in the death of a woman so clearly loved by her family, nor in her husbands impending demise. I would say that 93 odd years is a very good innings so all this outpouring of grief should be reserved for family and friends. People die folks. I'm glad Trump wasn't there - the man has no idea how to conduct himself and I bet there wasn't a single person in that photograph who wanted him there.
i agree, they should celebrate her long and fruitful life. save the national mourning for kids with cancer, or victims of school shootings who will never fulfill their potential.
@Tina I bet he would probably leave in the funeral home a note about how he had such a great time and he spent so much good time with his "f(r)iends." The man is a nut.
The end of this video, where Colbert shows us the call between Stallone and Trump has me laughing so hard I"m crying. What a gift it is to get to laugh during these crazy times. Thank you Stephen!!!
COULDN'T AGREE MORE KATHLEEN!!!! even though at some point we should stop laughing at this clown cause his behavior and tweets are really concerning....and DANGEROUS
Imagine the only transmission that an alien civilization picked up from the human race was from 10:17 to 10:47. They would think that we were a race of orangutans, which currently isn't too far from the truth....
OMG what a hilarious monologue. The entire show had me in stitches, doubled over with laughter. Stephen impersonation of Trump, reading his tweets pure comedy gold. I'm sure I woke someone up laughing so loud.
New Message It’s also yet another tweet to add to obstruction of justice! He digs his grave deeper every tweet and is so use to lying that he lies about the most stupidest thing possible!
"Witness tampering is the act of attempting to alter or prevent the testimony of witnesses within criminal or civil proceedings." Straight from the dictionary, comrade.
If they think they're going to be pardoned, they won't testify against Trump. And witnesses aren't 'cut off from media sources', you're thinking of juries. Oy vey.
Crunchy Chips he's probably trying to distract the world, and fortify support and loyalty among those who are gonna get Mueller'd in the months to come.
It's not an anarchy. There are still laws. I assume you're also not allowed to kill someone in whatever banana republic you consider a free country. But Germany is a country where the press and independent courts are not getting attacked on a daily basis. A country where the chancellor is not above the law and can pardon witnesses in a case against themselves. A country where politicians cannot funnel money into the pockets of their relatives. There is a reason why the US got downgraded to a "flawed democracy".
"Your honor, in the government's case against Mr. Cohen, I respectfully submit Exhibit 1: Mr. Cohen's face. He looks as guilty as a kid who just got caught with one hand in the cookie jar while using his other hand to write a check to an adult film star for $130,000." -- _Federal Prosecutor_
In response to Trump's birther obsessions, Bill Maher suggested that he was willing to offer $5 million to Donald Trump if he could prove he wasn't the result of a woman fucking an orangutan. Donald Trump had lawyers send documents, including his birth certificate, to Maher in response............ Think about that. :'D
Judging from similarity between Trump's tweets and the way he talks, his thumbs do get a rest. Some of those are clearly dictated and tapped in by someone else. And can we pause a moment to note that the "President of the United States" made an implicit joke about prison rape ("make a new friend")?
That's true, he's specifically said he doesn't always write his own tweets; in fact, his aides actually make a point of writing the tweets in his "style" - capitalizing random words and even misspelling things. You can find quite a few articles about it but this Business Insider piece quotes the original Boston Globe (but that's behind a paywall): www.businessinsider.com/trump-staff-inserts-grammatical-errors-into-tweets-2018-5 And here's an interesting article from The Atlantic where they created an algorithm to figure out which tweets are him or written by his aides. www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/a-bot-that-detects-when-donald-trump-is-tweeting/521127/
Always great to see the "••••" dots getting another airing by Stephen, but 25 TWEETS OVER 2 DAYS?!! Shouldn't Spanky Trump be doing something important, like, IDK, running the country?
"and,... How would a call between Trump and Stalone even go?"…...... First time I laughed to a joke in this show that put tears in my eyes. Lol. That was hillarious 😂
Trump keeps using the term "flip" as if there is something Cohen has to flip to. If Trump is innocent of everything he claims to be innocent of, why is he worried about Cohen flipping in the first place.
Diptarka Das Don't you worry, he will never figure it out. He can't even figure out basic things, like signing papers that he asked to be public on TV :D
+David Anderson It’s because he actually says the number of “dots” trump actually used in the tweet. XD Honestly, I don’t get it. What is it with stupid people? Why do they seemingly have little to no ability to remember that ellipses consist of 3 periods in a row, no more and no less? Does it not look wrong to them when they place five periods in a row? WTH? XD
Michael Cohen says that he will take a bullet for Donald Trump. Says Trump: "That's great news, Mike. Now go to 5th Avenue and wait there for me. Also be sure to stand absolutely still."
Your president, the most powerful individual in your nation, doesn’t know what ellipses, quotation marks, or even capital letters are for. He also lacks the capacity to ask his staff what they are for. America, what are you doing?
Mike Zimmer My god conservatives are such fucking pussies. Can't even cope with jokes on a late night comedy show or a youtube comments section. Look at trump, tweeting like a bitchy teenaged girl!
Cohen: Melania! Melania! Melania: You can't keep coming to me like this Michael, I have a restraining order remember? You were a lawyer, you should know what that means. Cohen: Please, Melania, please, you have to tell Donald! Please tell him that I am loyal to him! I... I *need* him to love! Melania: Unless you are a cheeseburger, or Ivanka, he will never love you the way you want him to. Cohen: So what you're saying is... I should wear a blond wig, and bring him McDonalds? I can do that. Melania: That's not wh... Cohen: Thank you!!! *runs off*
TheReal008Zulu Scene 2#.... Cohen (back in full Ivanka drag): "Daddy Daddy! Will you love me now?!!" Trump: "Only if you let me grab you by the *****! (lunges forward and grabs), wait ah minute, COHEN is that you again?" Scene 3# anybody?
You know, for a lawyer, I thought Cohen would be smarter in picking his friends. Instead he's paying pornstars and getting arrested for President Dump.
Trump chose him because he's not smart -- -- another attempt to create plausible deniability and, therefore, is expendible -- the guy you would throw under the bus if necessary. That thought process failed him though because Cohen is even dumber than he thought. Some people think that he couldn't be Trump's lawyer because they think he would chose a high powered attorney because he's rich. As in the Indiana Jones series, some were looking for a "golden chalice" that would have been used by Jesus. In the end, the Knight in the "tower" helped him figure out that the chalice was made of wood. Trump, of course, wouldn't be using a "wooden chalice" because he's humble . . . And, consider this . . . a credible attorney with a high level of respect in the community, probably wouldn't take him as a client. Trump would have to scrape the bottom of the barrel. They would not squander their career the way this guy has. You and I would not hire an attorney who only has two clients. A new attorney might only have two clients. Cohen has been around a long time. We also would not hire an attorney who's degree represents the equivalent of an online minister's license unless, of course, we were out of options.
Michael Williams ; Trump: "- It's not fair for a man sitting a 100 years in a cell for driving a car with his girlfriend, even if he's black. (SAD). Expect pardon soon...."
Well there you go. Trump proves he's a dope (again). He was convicted in 1913 and skipped out. Turned himself in in 1920 but only spent about a year in jail. Lived to his late 60's as a free man. Though I use the term "free" very loosely.
Why is the president on the phone with an accused sex offender who left our nation for Russia anyway??? No wait, sorry, sometimes I have these relapses where I think I'm living in normal times.. Nevermind
Hannah Hopkins Yeah, an innocent person says “I’m glad they’re talking to my lawyer. He’ll comply 100%, and that will prove my innocence”.... Not “This is a witch hunt! My guy will never flip!”
They should create a special category of awards for comedy news reporting (and include Fox News in there with Comedy Central). Colbert would clean up with his Trump bits. The digs are so sharp.
