Sounds like a pretty solid indication Cohen is flipping or already flipped.
If criminality were the criterion for dismissal from RNC employment they’d have to hire temps in the winter to go in every couple of weeks to make sure the heat’s still on so the pipes don’t freeze.
Does it get that cold in hell?
One wonders: why the hell was the president’s bag man/fixer/consigliere, with absolutely zero experience in politics, holding a position with the RNC at all?
It’s a rhetorical question, of course (with the same answer the famous bank robber gave as to why he robbed banks.)
The RNC’s OTHER deputy financial chair, Broidy, was also caught up in that whole thing. This was after the chief financial chair, Steve Wynn, was dismissed for sexual misconduct allegations.
I never would have guessed that Cohen had a shred of humanity. I guess some things are too horrible even for him.
He has Holocaust victims and survivors in his family, which he referenced.
Don’t know if he is truly outraged, or using this to obliquely announce his split with the Dotard, but I don’t think it matters as much as the signaling he is doing matters.
I’ve heard rumors of it freezing over
In Minnesota, in the woods, when its twenty below zero, it gets so quiet you can almost hear Nature whisper: Die!
- Garrison Keillor (para.)
Let’s not forget:
Cohen did the NDA for the payoff between Broidy and his mistress. Interestingly, he used the same pseudonyms, “David Dennison” and “Peggy Peterson”. Makes you wonder: is he just lazy and didn’t retype his NDA form, or is this an indication, along with some other odd goings-on, that Broidy took the blame for Trump’s affair to secure foreign business deals worth hundreds of millions?
Well, according to Dante traitors go to the Ninth Circle to be frozen in a lake of ice.
That said, their spineless suckuppery to the Dotard may send them instead to join the flatterers in the Second Bolgia of the Eighth Circle to be immersed in a river of their own shit.
Because this circus needs yet another side show… Tom Arnold is producing a show for Vice called “The Hunt for the Trump Tapes,” where he will be drawing on his contacts in the entertainment industry to try to find video incriminating Trump. Yesterday Arnold tweeted a picture of him and Michael Cohen with their arms around each other. Reached for comment, Arnold said, “This dude has all the tapes — this dude has everything. I say to Michael, ‘Guess what? We’re taking Trump down together’, and he’s so tired he’s like, ‘OK,’ and his wife is like, ‘OK, f*** Trump.’”
Sure, why not? If Trump gets taken down by either an aging adult film star or a middling comedian, that may be the most fitting end for this fucking circus.
Cohen’s wife’s reaction is interesting. Happy wife, happy life, right?
Tom Arnold has been making…odd claims about having the goods on Trump for years. So far he hasn’t actually produced anything. I have no idea what he talked Vice into, but I don’t think he’s entirely credible.
The noose tightens.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson Denies Manafort’s Motion to Dismiss Money Laundering Charge
On what possible grounds would he even ask for such a dismissal? 
I’m pretty sure that Tom is referring to Cohen’s tapes…
I paraphrase Jim Carrey’s character in Liar, Liar: because it’s devastating to his case.
Likely none. It’s pretty much a pro forma motion, so the outcome was foreseeable. Still, nice to see the process wending through the courts in a predictable way, since so little is predictable in our current political environment.
I did especially appreciate that Judge Jackson also ruled that Manafort’s assets were not exempt from forfeiture for the money laundering charge. That’ll leave a mark.
Okay. It’s kind of like pleading not guilty even though there are 50 videos up on YouTube of you doing the deed.