- “secured a substantial amount of consulting business for himself”
- falsely claimed “unique insights and access to Individual-1”
- “his promises of insight and access proved essentially hollow”
- provided “minimal work”
- “used sophisticated tactics to conceal his misconduct.”
- All of this “underscores the need for a substantial period of incarceration as a means to promote respect for the law and to deter future abuses by other individuals seeking improperly to influence the electoral process, evade taxes, or lie to financial institution"
So given that we know (according the results of the investigation) that Michael Cohen oversold his access to the President to many people, and that he never provided what was promised. Given that we know that Cohen's sentencing memo suggested he provided minimal help to his investigation.
Why would anyone assume that Cohen has some sort of "smoking gun".
The reality here is that the media is relying on the short memory (along with a strong degree of TDS out there) to suggest that Cohen's contacts with foreign people was not what the investigation demanded it was (Cohen overselling himself). Rather the media is suggesting that Cohen's actions are the smoking gun proof that Trump was actively colluding with foreign powers to conspire regarding election crimes.
Again, a sleight of hand that defies the facts. Who would fall for this?
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Again, a sleight of hand that defies the facts. Who would fall for this?
i'll give you three guesses and the first two don't count.
give me an "A"
give me an "L"
give me a "K"...
heh.
During John Kelly's 17-month tenure, he tried, but largely failed, to bring a Marine Corps-style order to the White House – and President Trump.
Credibility is always a problem when a witness has been lying repeatedly previously.
It appears that no matter what the investigation says you will not believe it. (Trumpism)
Roger...
We have a fundamental difference in how we process this.
I read the memorandums myself and draw my own conclusions.
You don't read the memorandums and allow others to tell you what they mean.
Perhaps this is just a difference in our intelligence levels.
I am capable of reading these, processing these, and drawing possible conclusions. Whereas, you are incapable of understanding these on your own, so you decide to take the work of media member's whose entire motivation in writing these stories it to make them into a big deal to get people to read about it.
Then you (without actually reading the memos) get frustrated that I don't accept the opinions of media members who's job it is to sensationalize.
Perhaps if your arguments came from reading the memos, and providing me information "from" those memos that bolster your claims... we could have a reasonable debate.
But you don't. You simply cut and paste opinions that back what you "want" to hear.
Something you have been doing since before the election. Yet in spite of all or your bravado and constant claims. Trump won, Trump is still President, and Mueller is 50 million dollars and 2 years into an investigation without any evidence of what he was hired to find. You have been wrong, then wrong again, then wrong once more, then wrong again...
Every single time you chastised "me" for not believing the sensationalized allegations?
Will you ever learn?
Bullshit I have an IQ far over yours.
We have a fundamental difference in how we process this.
Very true, Lil Scotty....you are blinded by trumps BUllSHIT while Roger sees right through it...Sad how far you have fallen in your zeal for out chief crook and his felonious behavior....Mueller followed the money and guess what, cohen the fixer is not only fixed but he's gonna bring donnie with him...Maybe they can get a cell together......wouldn't that be a fucking hoot!!!
implicated Individual 1 in two felonies. And that's not the worst of it.
Your hero should be indicted immediately, but it will probably wait until after Mueller's report lists the various felony charges. You'll still be spinning while Trump is frog-marched out of the White House LOL.
Good to see you WP.....I'm sure you are regaling in our POTUS travails as much as I am and how little the minions of the right have nothing but hope left....LOLOLOL
Roger...
Nobody believes your claims of having a high IQ.
I promise you that my standardized Iowa Basics scores were higher than yours. I guarantee that my college entrance exam scores were higher than yours.
I promise you that I completed higher levels of education than you. And I work in a technical job that far exceeds what you did.
There is literally no tangible reason to believe that your intelligence level is even in the same range as mine.
Other than some story you tell us about a counselor who once told you that you were smart.
I've lived my life proving my intelligence. You've lived your life making excuses for achievement. Wanting us to believe that you not graduating from college and other failures was simply underachievement.
Sure WP...
If you say so! Hush money (that the FEC and a jury has previously said is not a campaign contribution) and what else are you making up?
Nobody believes your claims of having a high IQ.
And you accept Trumps brilliance without question....BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Me thinks you are painted in a corner like donnie.....no where to hide but show bluster in your support of the mental dwarf in the oval orifice with his childish rants, just like your post, loser....LOLOLOL
Denny...
Are you suggesting that Trump wrote the Cohen and Manafort memos?
Because those memos are what drives my opinion.
Denny...
Trump outsmarted Hillary, the neverTrumpers, and the MSM on his way to winning the presidency. If he is dumb, then everyone else involved was dumber.
Are you suggesting that Trump wrote the Cohen and Manafort memos?
Hey Lil Scotty, there are times you are dumber than a rock....LOL
Lil Scotty
Trump outsmarted Hillary, the neverTrumpers And trolled you into a stupor.....LOL
trump stole the election" dOpie
Blogger KD said...
trump stole the election" dOpie
Yep and you used a newsweek article as proof of a global cooling prediction in the 60's.......LOLOLOL
This is posit is proven time and time again by our loser host....
‘Siege warfare’: Republican anxiety spikes as Trump faces growing legal and political perils
The White House is adopting a “shrugged shoulders” strategy to the Russia probe, calculating that GOP base voters will believe whatever the president tells them.
CH and his simple I believe anything trump says is now being played by the WH, which he is too blind to see....Oh well...maybe cleaning all those toilets at a major jeweler gave him the skill set he is soooo proud of....LOL
I can read and make up my mind. Based upon the evidence. The election is over.
You already have made up your mind.
Iowa tests I scored in the top 5%
99th percentile or 98th depending on the year...
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
99th percentile or 98th depending on being hysterically funny!!!!! Whats next Lil Scotty.....dick size like trump?????
LOLOLOLOL
You believe anything Trump says.
Even though he lies about 40 times a day.
A growing number of Republicans fear that a battery of new revelations in the far-reaching Russia investigation has dramatically heightened the legal and political danger to Donald Trump’s presidency — and threatens to consume the rest of the party, as well.
President Trump added to the tumult Saturday by announcing the abrupt exit of his chief of staff, John F. Kelly, whom he sees as lacking the political judgment and finesse to steer the White House through the treacherous months to come.
Trump remains headstrong in his belief that he can outsmart adversaries and weather any threats, according to advisers. In the Russia probe, he continues to roar denials, dubiously proclaiming that the latest allegations of wrongdoing by his former associates “totally clear” him.
But anxiety is spiking among Republican allies, who complain that Trump and the White House have no real plan for dealing with the Russia crisis while confronting a host of other troubles at home and abroad.
Facing the dawn of his third year in office and his bid for reelection, Trump is stepping into a political hailstorm. Democrats are preparing to seize control of the House in January with subpoena power to investigate corruption. Global markets are reeling from his trade war. The United States is isolated from its traditional partners. The investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III into Russian interference is intensifying. And court filings Friday in a separate federal case implicated Trump in a felony.
Description of the Scott with Trumpism .
But anxiety is spiking among Republican allies, who complain that Trump and the
The White House is adopting what one official termed a “shrugged shoulders” strategy for the Mueller findings, calculating that most GOP base voters will believe whatever the president tells them to believe.
It's just you
I scored 92% on mathematics. I had trouble with math at the time. But I finally figured it out later. I scored 98% on everything else. The principal took me into the office and said that I had done everything very well.
The SAT scores amazed myself.
Look Scott for some reason you have decided that no matter what he says or does, you find a way to justify your opinions.
I understand having different opinions on politics but not about this man. He's been saying that every single institution has a political bias against him. He is about himself and only himself. Not the country or the Constitution. He doesn't understand the limitations on his powers as President.
You choose not to believe Tillerson or many others who have been standing that he will not read this daily briefings. His attention span is about 5 minutes. Of course you choose not to believe anything negative about him. It's just Fake News.
You lost my respect for you when a couple years ago you told me that to quit sending you links to the Fake News stories. I couldn't believe that someone who is highly educated and intelligent bought into the Fake News bullshit.
He said that the media aka the free press is the enemy of the people. This is an assault upon the First amendment rights. Yes you just pass it off as just politics. Its not.
This is not a copy and paste.
So comedy used the old Hillary defense. I don't remember. I don't recall. What s lying weasel.
Roger
You were pinging my phone in the middle of the night and repeatedly waking me up. No matter how many times I asked you to stop, you continued.
I am not going to argue with you about something that even Tillerson said never happened.
You were and still are completely obsessed and out of control. You literally cannot help yourself. It's replaced your alcoholism as a new vice.
I should not have been sending you comments off hours. I apologized but you didn't accept it.
You choose not to believe Tillerson or anyone else.
I understand having different opinions on politics but not about this man. He's been saying that every single institution has a political bias against him. He is about himself and only himself. Not the country or the Constitution. He doesn't understand the limitations on his powers as President.
He's dividing the country because he only wants to keep his base happy. You just slide along side. You ignore the lies.
My obsession is not political.
This was the first time in years that I could workout without fear of hurting myself. The only thing I haven't done yet a situps. The surgery was on October 29th to repair the hernias. It even seemed that my lumbar spine problem is getting better now.
It's my health.
You were and still are completely obsessed and out of control.
Your last two posts were in denial about how the President and his family and staff members were in contact with the Russians during the campaign and administration.
Yes there are many details that aren't quite there yet but even if Muller had an audio tape of Trump and Putin discussing how to beat Hillary Clinton, you would choose to believe the it is not big deal.
"U.S. President Donald Trump has weighed in on the growing chaos in Emmanuel Macron’s France, calling it “very sad” and suggesting it is time the scrap the Paris climate agreement and “return money back to the people in the form of lower taxes”.
The Carbon Riots
"the President and his family and staff members were in contact with the Russians during the campaign and administration. " 2nd Generation Alky
They were. You have proof or pfffft?
Jesus 2nd Generation Alky you are a walking disaster. A laundry list of sickness.
Where is The Democrat tax cuts promised burning the campaign?
Actually Rog...
Tillerson denied making any of those statements.
So it is actually you (not me) who refuses to believe Tillerson.
Your last two posts were in denial about how the President and his family and staff members were in contact with the Russians during the campaign and administration.
Were they?
Did you actually read them?
Nobody (besides Cohen) denied that Cohen was still attempting to facilitate a real estate deal in Moscow. Jr and Sr provided statements under oath stating as much.
Manafort was talking to one of his business partners associated with the scheme that got him prosecuted. He is accused of using this person to obstruct the investigation into his dealings (not Trumps).
Neither of these things implicates the President.
Republicans Worried Trump Troubles Will Engulf Party
December 8, 2018 at 6:07 pm
“A growing number of Republicans fear that a battery of new revelations in the far-reaching Russia investigation has dramatically heightened the legal and political danger to Donald Trump’s presidency — and threatens to consume the rest of the party as well,” the Washington Post reports.
“Trump remains headstrong in his belief that he can outsmart adversaries and weather any threats, according to advisers. In the Russia probe, he continues to roar denials, dubiously proclaiming that the latest allegations of wrongdoing by his former associates ‘totally clear‘ him.
“But anxiety is spiking among Republican allies, who complain that Trump and the White House have no real plan for dealing with the Russia crisis while confronting a host of other troubles at home and abroad.
the media is suggesting that Cohen's actions are the smoking gun proof that Trump was actively colluding with foreign powers to conspire regarding election crimes.
The evidence is there. Trump and the his allies, family (the meeting with the Russians who had dirt) had business well into the first year of the administration. You ignored his repetitive comments about no Russian business or contacts.
The media is reporting the information. You don't like what they say about your hero Donald Trumpism
Cohen was directed to pay off two women in violation of campaign finance laws by the unnamed-1.
Except for Dershowitz almost every other experienced lawyers say the evidence is beyond a reasonable doubt a violation of the law.
Tillerson said those things were in an interview on CBS morning news.
I have posted a transcript of his comments.
Upon further examination of your comment, it makes no sense.
"Tillerson denied making any of those statements." He has not denied the comments. It's on YouTube.
So it is actually you (not me) who refuses to believe Tillerson.
I refuse to believe you. Tillerson said those things.
You must have been drinking too much beer.
Roger...
You do realize that the Federal Elections Commission declared that paying hush money was not considered a campaign expense?
You also realize that John Edwards was aquitted of the same charges.
You also realize that the electorate was aware of these payments before the election?
And you also realize that Cohen was charged for this a couple months ago, making this another duplicate story being passed off to the ignorant as new news?
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Thank you!
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the electorate was NOT aware of these payments before the election?
He violated campaign finance laws as directed by the candidate.
The fact that it was in the news earlier is irrelevant because it is in the report by the Muller investigation.
The dollar amount was in violation of campaign finance laws.
You are grasping at straws.
You do realize that the Federal Elections Commission declared that paying hush money was not considered a campaign expense?
A Google search shows that there are many different interpretations of the law. But it is not just buying silence. It was meant to alter the outcome of the election.
If Hillary had hired someone to hide something about her life, you would have posted ten thousand word comments in outrage.
The Tillerson interview that Scott said that Tillerson denied. Well not really since it's all here.
https://youtu.be/r6Rc68FXk-E
Trump and Tillerson, a former Exxon Mobil CEO, (dumb and lazy) were known to have a contentious relationship. Tillerson was dismissed from his post in March and replaced by then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo.
The former secretary of State also said he believed Trump was able to win the presidency because the public is disengaged on many important issues.
"I will be honest with you, it troubles me that the American people seem to want to know so little about issues that they are satisfied with a 128 characters," Tillerson said, referring to Trump's use of Twitter.
"I don't want that to come across as a criticism of him," he added. "It's really a concern that I have about us as Americans and us as a society and us as citizens."
Tillerson also said at the Houston event that "there's no question" Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
Since Hillary Clinton was colluding with the Russians over creating a fake dossier nobody is disputing the fact.
They just have the criminal campaign wrong.
Since Hillary Clinton was colluding with the Russians
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! You are the moron Trump's white house considers their base, dumb as rocks!!!!....gullible fools and easily trolled...When you actually present a single fact....i will be shocked...!!!!
Shhhhh you just been shocked.
Shhhhh you just been shocked.
Digging up your facts from trumps fat white ass constitute the reason why he trolls you.....a box of rocks has more sense....LOLOLOL
Actually it was the house intelligence committee report.
Actually it was the house intelligence committee report.
And that is credible why?????? Idiot..
Yep...that trump boom is coming to an end....so much for tax breaks as companied buy back their stock on the cheap;...!!
The S&P 500 stock index is now down about 1.5% for 2018. If it ends the year there—or lower—it will be the worst annual performance for the S&P since markets crashed in 2008.
The stock market, of course, has been in a bull market since March of 2009, with only a few corrections along the way. We’re in a correction now, with stocks down about 10.2% from the high of Sept. 20. A correction is a drop of 10% or more, while a bear market is a 20% drop, or greater. The last bear market ended in 2009.
Here’s the annual performance for the S&P 500, calculated as the percentage change at the end of December, from the December before:
Yep...that trump boom is coming to an end....
Kerry in a landslide!!!!
Kerry in a landslide!!!!
Yep....Kerry lost and trump is ruining the economy.....I'm sure you can understand why trump considers you his base.....dumb as a rock.....LOLOLOL
Menstra, You do realize that the Federal Elections Commission declared that paying hush money was not considered a campaign expense?
I'm quoting Scott.
You do realize that the Federal Elections Commission declared that paying hush money was not considered a campaign expense?
C.H Truth
2nd Generation Alky.
Your list of new medical is puts a lie to your "best shape if my life"
Parasite on the back of tax payers.
You are your mail order over 1.5 million stolen tax dollars yet?
You do realize that the Federal Elections Commission declared that paying hush money was not considered a campaign expense?
You do realize that the only evidence Mueller has is a statement by Cohn the "Trump directed him" after what Cohan pleaded to?
Oh yeah, perjury.
Roger Amick said...
You do realize that the Federal Elections Commission declared that paying hush money was not considered a campaign expense?
well alky,
if the hush money would've been paid out to the whores anyway, with or without the occurrence of the campaign, it's a stretch to call it a campaign expense.
capisce?
now then, i still think you clowns should impeach. like i said, have those articles drawn up so when palsi drops her gavel, H.R. 1 is on the desk and ready to go.
Yes. Impeach 45.
You won. Elections have consequences.
Stop parroting Guiliani's STUPID legal babbling CH. It makes you look like an idiot's sock-puppet.
That moronic "not a campaign contribution" has been refuted countless times by everyone who has even basic knowledge of the Edwards charges - which, obviously, does not include you. Inform yourself.
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