It’s a National Non-Emergency: Trump thread 91

[TheClaws]

Here we are in February 2019 - Trump has declared a National Emergency to funnel the funds for his border wall, he’s just come off a ridiculous SOTU that contained more lies than not, and he’s just tweeted this:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 2h2 hours ago
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“These guys, the investigators, ought to be in jail. What they have done, working with the Obama intelligence agencies, is simply unprecedented. This is one of the greatest political hoaxes ever perpetrated on the people of this Country, and Mueller is a coverup.” Rush Limbaugh

But here’s a reminder he’s not one of the sharpest tools in the box.

'The sad fact is that I never heard Mr. Trump say anything in private the led me to believe he loved our nation or wanted to make it better. In fact, he did the opposite' - Michael Cohen.

Anyone else thinking it's a mistake for the Republican members to keep repeating that Cohen can't be trusted and is a bad person because he tells lies?

When their whole support of Trump is based on "So he tells lies! So what? Telling lies doesn't matter."

Yes. And also the shouting ...

" Michael Cohen was one of many lawyers who represented me (unfortunately). He had other clients also. He was just disbarred by the State Supreme Court for lying & fraud. He did bad things unrelated to Trump. He is lying to reduce his prison time. Using Crooked’s lawyer!"

You mean there are many other lawyers who need to be grilled a bit? I hope Mueller is taking notes.

Not so, Perking. I think it will work.

Lord alive...

Republicans now holding up a huge sign saying

LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE with a picture of Cohen

Chris Christie on Michael Cohen testimony: "There hasn't been one Republican yet who's tried to defend the president on the substance. I think that's something that should be concerning to the White House."

That is very true isn't it?

Oh Yes.

Just watching Jim Jordan's rather odd performance.

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
FLAG: Michael Cohen says that he cannot testify about his last conversation with Trump because it is being investigated by the Southern District of New York. Cohen says that he knows about more illegal acts by the president, says that those are part of the investigation.

Natasha Bertrand
@NatashaBertrand
Big: Cohen says changes were made to his testimony about the Trump Tower Moscow deal by Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow (and maybe others on Trump’s legal team, but he was cut off.) The changes included his statements about how long the negotiations went on, Cohen says.

Where he 'said' they ended early on?

Maggie Haberman
@maggieNYT
Big - Cohen says Trump asked him to say that Trump wasn't knowledgable of Cohen's payments to Daniels. This was Feb 2018, when Trump was president for a year already. He says Trump called him to direct him to mislead the public.

Zoe Tillman
@ZoeTillman
Roger Stone texted us today that Michael Cohen's testimony that Stone told Trump in July 2016 that he'd spoken to Julian Assange about a doc dump is "not true." Stone is under a gag order not to talk about his case, Mueller's probe, or any participants

www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/roger-stone-michael-cohen-trump-wikileaks-emails

Matthew Miller
@matthewamiller
Interesting that Stone cares enough about this one specific allegation that he's willing to violate the gag order to rebut it. Like it is the secret he has to protect above any other.

Does that put Stone

Sorry,

.......in jail?

That was a dramatic pause, cozietoesie.

Not meant to be...........

I reckon that Berman Jackson assumed he'd breach it - just a question of what with?

I heard "duh duh DUH!!!!" between cozie's 2 posts. 😜

So far it's GOP character assassinations and Dem legit questions. So all's going as I expected.

Let’s hope there are consequences! He’s reached out to lots of publications, not just buzzfeed, so it’s a flagrant violation

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Jackie Speier: How many times did Mr. Trump ask you to threaten an individual or entity on his behalf?
Cohen: Quite a few times.
Speier: 50 times?
Cohen: More.
Speier: 100 times?
Cohen: More.
Speier: 200 times?
Cohen: More.
Speier: 500 times?
Cohen: Probably, over the 10 years.

Oliver Darcy
@oliverdarcy
Cohen says he has tapes of other clients.

Hannity 🤞🏾