Donald Trump woke up Monday with special counsel Robert Mueller on the brain (as if he is ever off that brain anymore). Last week's confession from longtime Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen that he lied to Congress about a Moscow real estate deal on Trump’s behalf isn't sitting well.
“Michael Cohen asks judge for no Prison Time,” Trump groused Monday morning, recapping headlines from over the weekend. "You mean he can do all of the TERRIBLE, unrelated to Trump, things having to do with fraud, big loans, Taxis, etc., and not serve a long prison term?”
Yep. That's a distinct possibility after Cohen supplied the special counsel's team with more than 70 hours of what was likely crucial testimony.
Trump went on to accuse Cohen of making up stories, adding the he should "in my opinion, serve a full and complete sentence.” Oh, and so should his wife and father-in-law, who Trump says are getting “off Scott Free."
Let's not quibble with his linguistics here: the bigger point is that Trump believes familial co-conspirators of criminals should also be subject to prosecution. Noted.
After dashing off two Cohen hate tweets, Trump moved on to some "light" witness tampering, as Trump might put it.
As Kellyanne Conway's husband and frequent Trump critic George Conway noted: "File under '18 U.S.C. §§ 1503, 1512,'” the U.S. criminal code for witness tampering.
But ultimately, Trump despises Mueller, "who is a much different man than people think," in Trump's opinion. Mueller and "his out of control band of Angry Democrats, don’t want the truth, they only want lies,” Trump griped—as if Trump is even capable of distinguishing between truth/objective reality and his distorted hall-of-mirrors perspective.
Let’s just say “Individual 1” is feeling a tad vulnerable ... and ragey.