Michael Cohen book accuses Trump of corruption, fraud

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  1. HumbledPi

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    Michael Cohen book accuses Trump of corruption, fraud
    https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...-cohen-book-accuses-trump-of-corruption-fraud

    President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen’s book accused the president of corruption and fraud, according to an excerpt released Thursday.

    In the book entitled “Disloyal, A Memoir,” Cohen made several accusations, including that the president “cheated” in the 2016 election with the help of Russia.

    Cohen, Trump’s former fixer, wrote that Trump attempted to get close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and “his coterie of corrupt billionaire oligarchs.”

    “Trump had colluded with the Russians, but not in the sophisticated ways imagined by his detractors. I also knew that the Mueller investigation was not a witch-hunt,” Cohen wrote.

    “Trump had cheated in the election, with Russian connivance, as you will discover in these pages, because doing anything — and I mean anything — to ‘win’ has always been his business model and way of life,” he added.

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    Michael Cohen's book will be released Sept 8th and is certain to be controversial.

    excerpts from "Disloyal" - the Michael Cohen story

    "Apart from his wife and children, I knew Trump better than anyone else did. In some ways, I knew him better than even his family did because I bore witness to the real man, in strip clubs, shady business meetings, and in the unguarded moments when he revealed who he really was: a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man."

    "Whoever follows Trump into the White House, if the President doesn't manage to make himself the leader for life, as he has started to joke about -- and Trump never actually jokes -- will discover a tangle of frauds and scams and lawlessness. Trump and his minions will do anything to cover up that reality, and I mean anything"

    "I know where Trump's skeletons are buried because I was the one who buried them."
     
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    Heres your first hint. If Cohen knew ANYTHING, he would have made a deal instead of going to prison.

    But leave it to the left to buy up his book. lol They are such a easy target.
     
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    Well it sounds like Cohen is saying he committed the crimes to protect Trump. Not sure this is going where the democrats think it is.
     
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    Oh look another book......did Stormy Daniel's write the forward?
     
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    Michael Cohen book accuses Trump of corruption, fraud

    Who could possibly have guessed that?
     
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    A fool and his money are easily parted.
     
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    'Nutha book. Kindling by late October.
     
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    Won't make it through the first printing or one news cycle, ZZZZZZZZZ!!!!
     
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    What are you talking about? Cohen did make a deal.

    Oh... I see what you're saying. You mean a deal with Trump. To keep quiet and Trump would abuse his presidential powers to get him out. Like Roger Stone, right?

    It's terrible that a large part of the population now accepts that making corrupt deals with a corrupt President is the "smart" thing to do.
     
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    And you're just now discovering this? You didn't see Cohen's testimony before Congress? Or even hear about it?

    Wow! It never ceases to amaze me how the wingnut media keeps Trump supporters completely uninformed.
     
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    Yeah... if they're going to write a book for every crime that Trump commits, you're never going to finally catch up on your "Captain Underpants " series, right?
     
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    If I rob a bank to pay for your medical care, you didn't rob the bank, I did. It never ceases to amaze me how democrats live in a completely other reality.
     
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    Unfortunately, we know how this thread (and others about Cohen's book) will go. Everyone Trump likes, his supporters like. As soon as Trump turns on them, his supporters turn on them. It doesn't matter who they are, they are now dog *****. Everything they have to say is garbage.

    Cohen was one of Trump's most loyal of employees. He made an ass of himself trying to defend and/or promote him in 2016. But now that he's sharing info about Trump, he's an idiot. He's a liar. He's scum.
     
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    If you rob a bank to cover up a crime I committed, with my knowledge, representing me as my attorney, I most certainly did rob that bank.
     
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    If I plan the robbery and send someone out to rob the bank. I robbed the bank.
     
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    To pay for medical care? You think that Cohen committed those acts out of "love" for Trump????

    Look, if you conspire to rob a bank, all people in the conspiracy are guilty. It doesn't matter who commits the actual act.

    Cohen made it clear since the very beginning that he committed those acts. And that it was under instructions from Trump. Trump has already been declared by a judge an "unindicted co-conspirator".

    But the amazing thing is that this has been all over the news (the real news... probably not on Infowars or Rush or any of those nutjob disinformation sources) for over two years. But it looks like this is new to you.

    You may be a bit behind in the news. I suggest you take some time to get up to speed on the topics before you comment about them. Read my sig. It might provide some guidance.
     
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    They will make hay about it you can bank on that! Hell they can have a sitting President hung with a simple "He said, she said" rumor :shock:
     
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    So 50 FBI agents, two dozen CIA officials, 17 super lawyers, 2500 witnesses, and 17 intelligence agencies are all waiting on Cohens book so they can finely figure out how Trump conspired with Russia to fix a presidential election? This book will expose all the fraud, criminal activities, and Russia connections of Trump because either:

    (Choose your answer)

    1. Cohen couldn't make a deal with Mueller to provide the information they all spent 2 1/2 years coming up empty handed
    2. Cohen withheld information from the FBI and is going to expose how he did it to bring this information to light
    3. Cohen gave the FBI all this information but all 17 intelligence agencies are conspiring with Trump to keep it quiet

    You should be able to find a copy in the Dr. Seuss section
     
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    WTF?

    What are you talking about? All the details of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia are already in the Mueller Report. There is probably much more in the parts that are redacted, but there is more than enough to know how they colluded. That's not what Cohen's book is about. I mean... if there is something new about that.. that would be interesting. But that's not much of a mystery to any average informed poster.

    What's appealing about Cohen's book are the extent of Trump's criminal financial dealings....

    You have so much to read if you expect to catch up.
     
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    Cohen played every card he had with Mueller to make a deal. He obviously didn't have anything of value.

    Now his tell all book is going to illuminate everything? I don't think so.
     
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    Well... enough to get a deal. But Cohen's role was not in Trump's campaign or on matters related to their collusion with Russia in attacking our electoral system. His role was in Trump's personal businesses.

    And the fact that you didn't know something this basic renders your "predictions" about the matter completely useless.
     
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    How much did you pay for the book?
     
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    If Cohen is willing to break his attorney client privilege oath, just because he was disbarred, so he can sell you a book to pay off his 50K fine after pleading guilty to tax evasion, campaign finance violations, and lying to the FBI, I guess he found his audience.

    Kind of hard for most intelligent people to think Cohen's book is all of a sudden going to be the shining light of truth, after the fact.

    But its perfect for the left who have a history of demeaning people when its convenient just to exonerate them again when it becomes convenient yet again. Everyone see's how it works.

    Kamala calling Biden a racist rapist, but now shes his running mate
    The left calling Comey the most reputable top law enforcement guy until he went after Hillary,
    How the left despised John Bolten as a war monger, fraud, and murderer until he wrote a book
    Cohen was Trumps fixer and will lie to anyone for money until he wrote a book

    Starting to see a pattern here?
     
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    I couldn't care less. I don't care about Cohen. I care about his revelations. Lock him up, give him The Chair, for all I care. I'm only interested in what he knows about Trump. And that people know the extent of his many crimes.
     
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    The book will most probably be a dud. Otherwise he might get in trouble for lying and or withholding from congress.
     

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