Yep. The idiot doesn’t remember what he has said from one day to the next. Who still supports this lunatic?
Of course you don’t. But you’re a fucking idiot.
Looks like you missed the part about Trump now admitting to “a tiny little fraction”.
Well, to be fair, Trump has fucked over enough people that even a tiny fraction of his legal work would be enough to keep Cohen busy full time.
It’s kind of fascinating to look at it in productivity terms. A single man-hour of Trump’s time can require x man-hours of a lawyer’s time to obfuscate, deflect, deny, challenge, counter-sue, etc. I don’t know exactly what value x is, but I think it’s easily in the double digits.
Prostate acting up again?
You need to see the quote in context (he said he had a zillion lawyers etc.) He wasn’t saying a tiny fraction of Cohen’s work was for him. He was saying a tiny fraction of his work was done by Cohen. Those are completely different things, and the first is what would be relevant to the privilege claim.
Well, he already nominated a horse’s ass.
Would you consider this context?
You’re conflating two separate issues. There are (from what I’ve seen) two separate areas in which Trump is thought to have possibly undermined himself.
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[li]He admitted that Cohen represented him in the Stormy Daniels deal, while he earlier claimed that he didn’t know anything about that matter (at the time).[/li][li]He admitted that Cohen handled only a “tiny, tiny fraction” of his legal work, while his legal team’s position has been that there are serious attorney-client privilege issues at stake in the Cohen documents.[/li][/ol]
These two matters are not logically connected.
My response to the first was in post #4219. My response to the second was in post #4225.
As above, I agree in general that Trump’s mouth is his own worst enemy, as in “I was just fighting back and they called it obstruction”, or in his comments about the Comey firing being related to Russia. But I’m not seeing it in this particular instance.
Trump sometimes seems like he has the mind of a 7-year-old child. Look, I confess, I remember being in grade school and telling a lie and telling another lie that contradicted my first one. But we, like, grow out of that eventually, right?
They aren’t separate.
Deny away.
Most people grow out of it because they hit the real world and need to deal with bosses and contemporaries and so on. Trump got started as a big mogul at a pretty early age, so he grew up surrounded by sycophants, and had assistants to deal with everyone else. As a result, his childlike tendency to act on his impulses has never been curbed, and his delusion that he knows everything about everything has not been checked.
I think that’s quite astute and well put. Never having to answer to a boss or work his way up meant that he never had any reason to watch his mouth or his behavior.
I think Trump’s statements on Cohen are not smoking gun evidence of being caught in lies red-handed, because there is way to read the statements (at least the ones that I’m familiar with) that could make them all true.
However, they are confusing as all hell and need more explanation. It is plausible that he’s just making shit up… in fact, that’s the most likely reason for his statements. Therefore, Trump is (IMHO) setting himself up for endless depositions on these and any related matters.
Good.
did you just say bad things about your guy?
Some people are capable of seeing the world in a more nuanced manner than “my guy”, and some people are not. You are evidently in this latter group. (Another member of the latter group would be Trump himself :))
So how is it that he’s your guy?
I don’t think much of you, but I think it’s unlikely that you’re a child molester. Are you “my guy”? I wouldn’t think so …
He didn’t say “He did me a solid”, or “He really was looking out for me”, or “I’ll admit that he did something that it would appear I’d benefit from.”
He said “He represented me”, and the implication of that is quite clearly that it was with his knowledge and approval. Representation implies action by proxy, not secret favors by a friend.
There is a tiny, 1-in-a-millionth chance that he misspoke and meant to say something else but simply used “Represent” in an unfortunate, inaccurate way. But nobody anywhere actually believes that. He was telling the truth, and is completely clueless about how something he’d think is innocuous, isn’t.
It wasn’t a favor from a friend. It was his personal lawyer and all-purpose-fixit-and-bagman acting in that capacity. Just without his knowledge.
[All that said, it would not surprise me at all if Trump is lying and that he knew about the payoff. The notion that Cohen would shell out $130K on his own strikes me as a bit weird, even considering the all-around weirdness that surrounds Trump. But if you can buy the initial claim - and you never know when it comes to these guys - then I don’t see Trump’s statement as undermining it.]
Funny you use that term, because there’s some number of Americans who voted for “their guy” Trump as opposed to the child molester.