this could be information that they were well aware of. it may not be. maybe this was one of the areas that cohen didn t want to get into. we just don t know. but they know. and whether cohen is telling the truth about this being at the direction of donald trump, it rings true to me and i assume to many people because of what we know about trump and how, you know, things operated. that he would not have let this amount of money be paid without knowing what it was for and what was going on. but, you know, you can t just take cohen s word for it. there will be other evidence that prosecutors and investigators either have or will get. you know, they re not going to just blindly accept what cohen is saying. if what cohen is saying is true, it certainly does raise possible additional criminal campaign finance questions. if trump knew, the campaign should have reported this as an
trials i ve seen where and it s the point in the trial where you have multiple defendants and they start turning on each other. the defense goes from none of us did it to he did it, no, he did it. that never ends well for any of them. if i were paul manafort right now, i would be thinking, wow, i really should not have lied to mueller because this president and his attorney are going throw all of us under the bus if they need to. i don t think that will work, by the way. the strategy here that giuliani is doing of trying to distance now, it just has absolutely no credibility, which is why it won t work. if that were the case, let s assume let s suspend reality for a minute and assume that were the case, that they had been saying all along that other people in the campaign may have colluded but the president didn t, then from day one they would have welcomed this investigation. they would not have called it a witch hunt because it would have been a legitimate investigation, somethin
you have to do that to get a cooperation agreement with the southern district of new york. what is that all that other conduct he didn t want to come clean about? who did he commit those other crimes with? tell us. well, i have all arrows point to trump. that s the person who he worked for for so many years, who he was in partnership with. that was his function with trump. to be his fixer. his dirty person. his dirty man. and we know, you know, trump made all these claims when cohen s office was raided about attorney-client privilege and that turned out to be a complete sham. a very miniscule am of those documents were privileged. that s a sign of how little actual legal work he did. so this is all fair game. all this stuff that cohen didn t necessarily want to tell the southern district of new york because he would have had to plead guilty to it, it fair game to be asked about it now when he s testifying. and there s very little disincentive to not answer those
from the southern district of new york. why? from all the signs, it seems that he didn t want to come clean about other criminal conduct he was involved in. you have to do that to get a cooperation agreement with the southern district of new york. what is that all that other conduct he didn t want to come clean about? who did he commit those other crimes with? tell us. well, i have all arrows point to trump. that s the person who he worked for for so many years, who he was in partnership with. that was his function with trump. to be his fixer. his dirty person. his dirty man. and we know, you know, trump made all these claims when cohen s office was raided about attorney-client privilege and that turned out to be a complete sham. a very miniscule am of those documents were privileged. that s a sign of how little actual legal work he did. so this is all fair game. all this stuff that cohen didn t necessarily want to tell the southern district of new york because he would have had
he didn t want to come clean about?er who did he commit those other crimes with? t tell us. well, i have pretty all arrows point to trump because that is the person who he worked for for so many years, who he was in partnership with. that was his function with trump.wa to be his fixer. his dirty person. his dirty man. and we know, you know, trump made all these claims when an cohen s office was raided about attorney/client privilege and that turned out to be a complete sham. a very miniscule amount of those documents were privileged. that s a sign of how little s actual legal work he did. so i think and this is all fair game. all this stuff that cohen didn t necessarily want to tell the southern district of new york because he would have had to plead guilty to it, it is fair game to be asked about it now when he s testifying.o and there s very little disincentive for him to not answer those questions. he s not going to be i assume he s going to get some kind of