{"id":56574,"date":"2023-03-23T13:11:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T20:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56574"},"modified":"2023-03-23T18:21:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T01:21:35","slug":"wow-trump-thinks-he-found-proof-that-michael-cohen-lied-about-the-stormy-daniels-hush-money-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56574","title":{"rendered":"WOW! Trump Thinks He Found Proof that Michael Cohen Lied About the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"

The seething fear of Donald Trump continues to boil over into ever more belligerent and bizarre outbursts on his failing social media scam, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>. For several days Trump has been posting repetitious and offensive assaults on the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, who is reported to be nearing a decision on indicting Trump.<\/p>\n

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Among Trump’s blathering broadsides are racist and anti-Semitic insults aimed at the Black D.A. Trump refers to Bragg as “A SOROS BACKED ANIMAL,”<\/em> who is seeking to destroy the country. And he attempts to persuade the NYPD to shirk their duties to protect New Yorkers from the StormTrumpers who are threatening to riot if Trump is indicted.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Trump Can\u2019t Imagine the NYPD Defending the City If His Indictment Triggers Riots By His Followers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

On Thursday morning Trump persisted with his impertinent prattle in post<\/a> that reeked of the meritless pride of a confirmed malignant narcissist. He expressed his astonishment at having discovered what he thinks is a bombshell revelation that blows the roof off of the Stormy Daniels “hush money”<\/em> affair.<\/p>\n

The letter was from the attorney for Trump’s former fixer, Michael Cohen, to the Federal Elections Commission (FEC), and said in part that the $130,000.00 that Trump paid to Daniels to buy her silence “does not constitute a campaign contribution.”<\/em> It went on to say that…<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a private transaction in 2016, before the U.S. presidential election, Mr. Cohen used his own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to Ms. Stephanie Clifford. Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed Mr. Cohen for the payment directly or indirectly.<\/p>\n

“Contrary to the allegations in the complaint, which are entirely speculative, neither Mr. Cohen nor Essential Consultants LLC made any in-kind contributions to Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., or any other presidential campaign committee.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To that Trump responded…<\/p>\n

“Wow, look what was just found\u2014A Letter from Cohen\u2019s Lawyer to the Federal Election Commission. This is totally exculpatory, and must end the Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s Witch Hunt, immediately. Cohen admits that he did it himself. The D.A. should get on with prosecuting violent criminals, so people can walk down the sidewalks of New York without being murdered!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is an impressive quantity of bullpucky in there. Let’s break it down…<\/p>\n

First of all, this letter was not “just found.”<\/em> It is not exculpatory at all. It won’t end the D.A.’s investigation. It isn’t a witch hunt. Cohen’s “admission”<\/em> was a lie. And millions of New Yorkers walk the streets without being murdered every day. In fact, crime is down<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The truth is that the letter Trump claims to have found contains nothing new. The claim by Cohen that he “used his own personal funds”<\/em> for the Daniels payoff has been a part of the public record for at least five years. Cohen told the same story to the New York Times on February 13, 2018. And that article was referenced in a March 8, 2018 letter<\/a><\/strong> sent to Trump by the then-ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, Jarry Nadler, seeking more information about the hush money.<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO: Trump\u2019s Attorney Admits that Trump Lied About Making Hush Money Payments to Stormy Daniels<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

What’s more, the phony surprise by Trump is all the more preposterous considering that the claims by Cohen in his February 8, 2018, letter to the FEC were rendered moot when he later pleaded guilty to lying about that. It were those lies that sent Cohen to prison. The Justice Department explicitly referenced these claims in their charging document<\/a><\/strong> on August 21, 2018, and noted that “COHEN caused and made the payments described herein in order to influence the 2016 presidential election.”<\/em><\/p>\n

So to summarize, Trump is bragging that he “found”<\/em> a letter wherein Cohen lied about matters that everyone already knew that he lied about because he pleaded guilty to doing so and even testified before Congress to that effect. If this is the best that Trump can do to extricate himself from this mess, no wonder he resorts to infantile insults and name-calling. He’s desperate and afraid and at some level knows that he’s going down.<\/p>\n

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