{"id":38912,"date":"2018-08-21T15:30:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T22:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38912"},"modified":"2018-08-21T15:32:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T22:32:32","slug":"guilty-conscience-trump-rattles-off-four-times-this-has-nothing-to-do-with-russian-collusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38912","title":{"rendered":"Guilty Conscience? Trump Rattles Off Four Times &#8216;This Has Nothing to do with Russian Collusion&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign chairman and personal attorney\/fixer are both officially felons. And now that there are verdicts in two of the most closely watched criminal cases of the year, Everyone was anxious to hear what the Unindicted Co-Conspirator-in-Chief would have to say about it. And if you were expecting a message of respect for the judicial process and the rule of law, you are going to be bitterly disappointed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-head-hands.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34610\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2300222633325852\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump spoke briefly after the convictions of Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen as he deplaned for a rally in West Virginia. His comments were a mix of sympathy, defiance, and self-serving bluster that demonstrated his contempt for the legal system that is still closing in around him:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN: Pres. Trump says he feels &quot;very badly for Paul Manafort.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It doesn&#39;t involve me&#8230;This has nothing to do with Russian collusion. This started as Russian collusion. This has absolutely nothing to do\u2014this is a witch hunt and it&#39;s a disgrace.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bFdeLFLvgU\">https:\/\/t.co\/bFdeLFLvgU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5q0KDBRNzM\">pic.twitter.com\/5q0KDBRNzM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCPolitics\/status\/1032022137228259328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After briefly expressing how sad he is about Manafort, who he said is <em>&#8220;good man,&#8221;<\/em> Trump launched into a defense of himself that no one asked him about. He had a desperate need to make sure that everyone knew that <em>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t involve me&#8221;<\/em> and that <em>&#8220;This has nothing to do with Russian collusion.&#8221;<\/em> In fact, he mentioned the Russia affair four times in less than one minute. He closed by repeating that Manafort&#8217;s conviction had nothing to with Russian collusion, and then called it a <em>&#8220;witch hunt&#8221;<\/em> for the second time in this short clip.<\/p>\n<p>Any first-year psychology student would recognize Trump&#8217;s anxiety and repetitious dialogue as the ravings of someone consumed by fear and knowledge of guilt. He continuously yowled his self defense more than he did any support for his former campaign chairman, Manafort. What&#8217;s more he didn&#8217;t mention Cohen&#8217;s name at all. That could signal his preference for Manafort, who some speculate will get a pardon. As for Cohen, he explicitly incriminated Trump in the Stormy Daniels hush money affair, so his prospects are much gloomier. That may explain why Trump couldn&#8217;t even say his name.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, this does involve Trump. Cohen&#8217;s plea deal references him as the <em>&#8220;candidate&#8221;<\/em> with whom he conspired to suppress the Daniels story. And it surely has something to do with Russian collusion from the standpoint that Manafort convictions might persuade him to be more cooperative with special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s investigation.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see what the Republicans in Congress have to say about Cohen&#8217;s pleading guilty to eight felony counts. During the Clinton administration they thought it justifiable to impeach the President for having lied about an extramarital affair. But Trump has now been implicated in both an affair and an illegal conspiracy to cover it up. Shouldn&#8217;t that warrant at least one of the Articles of Impeachment to be brought against him?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign chairman and personal attorney\/fixer are both officially felons. And now that there are verdicts in two of the most closely watched criminal cases of the year, Everyone was anxious to hear what the Unindicted Co-Conspirator-in-Chief would have to say about it. And if you were expecting a message of respect for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,1200,13],"tags":[275,554,39,1299,1258,1247,1211],"class_list":["post-38912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-scandalous","tag-bill-clinton","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeach","tag-michael-cohen","tag-paul-manafort","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-head-hands.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-a7C","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39937,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39937","url_meta":{"origin":38912,"position":0},"title":"Trump Dementia? 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