Trump tweeting in golf course travel mode about #TrumpRussia while en route to Belgium includes the near-daily invocation of “witch hunt” and more importantly “disgrace”, symptomatic of his nervousness much like when he crosses his arms over his belly.
Or is Cohen more like Kato Kaelin?
This means Trump’s attempts to get a SCOTUS justice to protect him will fail, because all that evidence already examined by the Senate committees and the Gang of Eight but not made public, could make his removal more likely.
I would never compare John Dean to Donald Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen, in terms of legal skill or intellect. But it's interesting that here we are, 45 years later, and once again we see the president's lawyer as a possible star witness against him. Cohen gave an interview to ABC News' George Stephanopoulos over the weekend in which he strongly implied that he was prepared to cooperate with prosecutors if, as expected, he is indicted on federal charges.
Obviously, the situation is different in numerous ways, not the least of which is that Cohen was the president's personal and business attorney, not the White House counsel. So his potential testimony involving President Trump is more likely to pertain to personal business than to the investigation into the 2016 presidential campaign. But there is no doubt that Cohen, like Dean, was involved in a cover-up. In Cohen's case it has to do with paying hush money to porn actresses and centerfolds. There is also suspicion that he was involved in covering up some aspects of Russian collusion. He does not appear willing to take the fall for any of it.
This idea isn't coming out of thin air. Emily Jane Fox of Vanity Fair reports that Cohen has finally accepted that Trump never had any loyalty to him and that he's on his own. Friends are telling Cohen, Fox writes, that he could change the course of history, sending messages like this: “Please let him know that he could go down in history as the man that saved this country. I think his family would be so proud of him. Even people like me that were disgusted with the things we heard on those audio recordings, would totally forgive him.” She also reports that Cohen has been planning a big media push for some time -- this is just the beginning.