Politico’s scoop on the Michael Cohen testimony introduction just dropped...and it’s worth all the popcorn in Orville Redenbacher’s world.
...but wait, there’s more…
Politico.com:
“In his prepared remarks, President Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen will say Trump knew that his longtime associate Roger Stone ‘was talking with Julian Assange about a WikiLeaks drop of Democratic National Committee emails.’”
Cohen’s prepared statement and the entire introduction is HERE in .pdf form.
Seriously: Grab yer popcorn, a fifth of single malt, and read it nao~ Cohen slams Trump six ways to Sunday.
Michael Cohen calls out Trump for his racist slurs, corruption, and asking him to put pressure on Trump’s schools to not release his grades or SAT scores.
“When I say conman, I’m talking about a man who declares himself brilliant but directed me to threaten his high school, his colleges, and the College Board to never release his grades or SAT scores.”
Real “stable genius” move, that. Forget the taxes… I want to see those SAT scores.
Furthermore, according to Cohen regarding Wikileaks and what Trump knew and when he knew it:
“A lot of people have asked me about whether Mr. Trump knew about the release of the hacked Democratic National Committee emails ahead of time.
“The answer is yes.”
We knew that Cohen was going to give Donald up.
Revenge is a dish; served cold to Congress is extra.
“As I earlier stated, Mr. Trump knew from Roger Stone in advance about the WikiLeaks drop of emails.
In July 2016, days before the Democratic convention, I was in Mr. Trump’s office when his secretary announced that Roger Stone was on the phone. Mr. Trump put Mr. Stone on the speakerphone.
Mr. Stone told Mr. Trump that he had just gotten off the phone with Julian Assange and that Mr. Assange told Mr. Stone that, within a couple of days, there would be a massive dump of emails that woulddamage Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
“Mr. Trump responded by stating to the effect of ‘wouldn’t that be great!’”
Best 10 minutes of WTF I’ve perused all year.
“To be clear: Mr. Trumpknew of and directed the Trump Moscow negotiations throughout the campaign and lied about it.
“He lied about it because he never expected to win the election.
“He also lied about it because he stood to make hundreds of millions of dollarson the Moscow real estate project.”
Nope. Holy Electoral College, Batman! None of us really expected Trump to win...did we Penguin?
"Trump is a man who ran for office to make his brand great, not to make our country great"
MAGA: Make (it) All Grifting, Always.
And as for that Vietnam bone spur deferment…
“During the campaign, Mr. Trump said
he did not consider Vietnam Veteran, and prisoner of War, Senator John McCain to be “a hero”because he likes people who weren’t captured.
“At the same time, Mr. Trump tasked me to handle the negative press surrounding his medical deferment from the Vietnam draft. Mr. Trump claimed it was because of a bone spur, but when I asked for medical records, he gave me none and said there was no surgery.
“He told me not to answer the specific questions by reporters but rather offer simply the fact that he received a medical deferment.
“He finished the conversation with the following comment. ‘You think I’m stupid, I wasn’t going to Vietnam.’
“I find it ironic, President Trump, that you arein Vietnam right now.”
Don’t we all?
Read the statement and weep, Donald. Whoya gonna call at 3:00 a.m. now?
Tomorrow's testimony by Cohen to Congress ought to be named a national holiday...Michaelsmass?