Desperation is palpable

 

Mmmmhmmmm...the orange man's minions are running to and fro trying to stamp out fires.

 

Cohen memoir casts him as 'star witness' against Trump
By JIM MUSTIAN and MICHAEL R. SISAK
16 minutes ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen’s tell-all memoir makes the case that President Donald Trump is “guilty of the same crimes” that landed his former fixer in federal prison, offering a blow-by-blow account of Trump’s alleged role in a hush money scandal that once overshadowed his presidency.

Of all the crises Cohen confronted working for Trump, none proved as vexing as the porn actress Stormy Daniels and her claims of an extramarital affair with Trump, Cohen writes in “Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump.”

Trump, despite his later protestations, green-lighted the $130,000 payment to silence Daniels ahead of the 2016 election, reasoning he would “have to pay” his wife a far greater sum if the affair ever became known, Cohen writes, adding the president later reimbursed him with “fake legal fees.”

“It never pays to settle these things, but many, many friends have advised me to pay,” Trump said, according to Cohen. “If it comes out, I’m not sure how it would play with my supporters. But I bet they’d think it’s cool that I slept with a porn star.”

The White House called Cohen’s memoir “fan fiction.”

“He readily admits to lying routinely but expects people to believe him now so that he can make money from book sales,” White House spokesman Brian Morgenstern said in a statement. “It’s unfortunate that the media is exploiting this sad and desperate man to attack President Trump.”

The Associated Press obtained an early copy of the book, which is scheduled to be released on Tuesday.

Cohen, who pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and other crimes, including lying to Congress, calls himself the “star witness” of a hush-money conspiracy that still could culminate in charges for Trump after he leaves office. He described his new book as a “fundamental piece of evidence” of the president’s guilt.

Cohen’s allegations — his most detailed to date — are part of an unsparing and deeply personal put-down of Trump. Cohen assails Trump as an “organized crime don” and “master manipulator,” but allows that he saw much of himself in a man he once considered a father figure.

“I care for Donald Trump, even to this day,” Cohen writes, “and I had and still have a lot of affection for him.”

Cohen remains at a loss to explain his unswerving allegiance to a cutthroat businessman who abandoned him at the most vulnerable point in his life. He likens his fealty to Trump to a mental illness and said he thought of himself as acting like a drug user in need of an intervention.

“It seemed to (my family) that I wouldn’t listen to anyone, not even the people who loved me most, as I gradually gave up control of my mind to Trump,” Cohen writes.

“I confess I never really did understand why pleasing Trump meant so much to me,” Cohen adds. “To this day I don’t have the full answer.”

Cohen says he stayed loyal to Trump for so long, despite the dirty work and volatile personality, because he wanted to stay close to his celebrity and power.

“I was the canary in the coal mine for the millions of Americans who are still mesmerized by the power of Trump,” Cohen writes.

The memoir offers an introspective — and at times self-loathing — apology for the role Cohen played in Trump’s political ascent. He urged Trump for years to run for president but now laments that his election “led the nation and maybe even the world to the brink of disaster.”

“I thought Trump was a visionary with a no-nonsense attitude and the charisma to attract all kinds of voters,” he writes. But the real reason he wanted Trump in the White House, Cohen concedes, “was because I wanted the power that he would bring to me.”

But Cohen expresses little to no remorse for his federal crimes, saying he was “railroaded” by the government and pleaded guilty after prosecutors threatened to indict his wife.

Cohen writes that Trump’s three oldest children came to Cohen’s office after Trump’s campaign announcement in 2015, in which Trump referred to people coming to the U.S. from Mexico as rapists and murderers. Cohen says they asked him to convince their father to drop out of the race, arguing his rhetoric was “killing the company.”

Cohen says Trump was undeterred and unconcerned with any harm to his businesses. “Plus, I will never get the Hispanic vote,” Trump said, according to Cohen. “Like the blacks, they’re too stupid to vote for Trump. They’re not my people.”

Cohen returns to Trump’s treatment of women throughout the book.

He describes the married Trump ogling contestants at his Miss Universe pageant and boasting he could “have all of them” if he wanted. He also claimed to have seen Trump corner and forcibly kiss women at his office.

In a far more personal episode, Cohen writes of Trump leering at Cohen’s then-15-year-old daughter at Trump’s New Jersey golf club in 2012. Cohen writes that when he told Trump that it was his daughter, Trump replied: “When did she get so hot?”

Beyond his dealings with Trump, Cohen waxes nostalgic about experiences he says informed his fierce loyalty and attack-dog persona. The Long Island native, a Holocaust survivor’s son, writes of rubbing shoulders with mobsters at his uncle’s club, where he worked as a teen. After witnessing a poolside shooting, he says he felt a duty to keep quiet. A few days later, he writes, a tough-looking fellow handed him an envelope stuffed with $500 cash.

Cohen has led a publicity blitz around his memoir even as he serves his federal sentence in home confinement. A judge ruled this summer that authorities had retaliated against him, sending him back to prison in upstate New York after he was furloughed because of the coronavirus pandemic, for publishing the book ahead of the November election.

Cohen was released to home confinement in July and the government lifted a ban on him speaking publicly.

“This story is all I have left for my wife, my children and the country I love so much,” Cohen writes.

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Associated Press writer Hillel Italie contributed to this report.

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What is so hilarious is this is the perfect storm where Trump's mental illness, ego, and stupid ignorance all came together in front of a tape recorder. First, Trump's mental illness made it impossible for him to confront COVID 19 and also unable to grasp the consequences of his own actions. While at the same time Trump's ego came into play and he was impressed and enthusiastic he would be interviewed by the great Bob Woodward. Which made Trump really want to impress him with all the very big and important things he knew which he gladly babbled. And then even if Trump were not mentally ill he would still be the most stupid and ignorant (two different things) president in US history. And he was just too stupid to realize that agreeing to give Woodward access for a new book before the election was political suicide. And too ignorant to know Woodward's books are always tough on a president and everything he said would be used against him.

And so now we get fucking shit like this. Trump should not have warned us about COVID 19. Bob Woodward should have.

Trump: Woodward Should’ve Warned People if I Was Lying to Them About COVID-19

*This just screams the question. Didn't Trump have an obligation to warn the American people? Tens of thousands of Americans died because Trump lied.

**Trump's just phony stupid excuse that he was trying not to create panic by telling the truth of COVID 19 is hurting him almost as bad as the revelations in Woodward's book. Trump's method of operation has always been trying to create fear and panic. ]He thrives on it. So the only thing he was trying to keep from panicking by lying about COVID 19 is the stock markets. Trump was willing to kill tens of thousands of Americans to keep the stock market from falling.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump...-about-covid-19-before-rage-came-out?ref=home

 

Yeah I bet most Trump supporters don't know the words either much less what they mean.

‘Don’t know the words’: Donald and Melania Trump slammed for not being able to recite Pledge of Allegiance on 9/11

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/do...-able-to-recite-pledge-of-allegiance-on-9-11/

 

If you want to know just how bad Trump is listen to Noel Casler. He worked with Trump's pageants and Celebrity Apprentice going back to the 90s.

According to Casler Trump's been a drug addict for decades. He's a coke head and started abusing Adderall and downers by the 2000s. That's what his sniffing is about. He's also dyslexic which is why he has problems reading the teleprompter. It also explains his attention span and why he doesn't read reports and briefings.

Casler also said he's morbidly obese but hides it with a plastic girdle that someone has to help him put on. He uses 3 inch lifts in his shoes which is why he doesn't walk far and he shits his pants when he gets upset so he wears diapers. The orange looking goop on his face is concealer made by a Swedish company, Bronxcolors. It's Nutmeg BHC05. Trump puts it on himself.

Casler said if you look at people who get close to him like in a greeting you will see them flinch because he has really bad stinky breath. Trump's also mostly bald. He does his own hair taking what hair he has that hasn't been cut in over 20 years and maneuvers it into the mop we see.

Last but not least as suspected he's obsessed with Ivanka and she uses that to control him. Casler said she and Jared are actually the president not Trump.

 

Trump fact-checked as ‘quite delusional’ at rally that Fox News did not even air

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/tr...onal-at-rally-that-fox-news-did-not-even-air/

 

In the latest Fox news interview with the Chump in Chief not only does the madman endorse extrajuddicial killings but he calls for more of them.

.....and you wonder why you have protests?

Unbelievable!

Thinskin

 

Remember folks you are talking about the same jack ass that claimed to have been awarded the Bay of Pigs Award by the Cuban people of Florida.

 

Kay, this is funny, no matter who you are.
Jeff Dunham has said many times, politicize in your act at your own peril.
So, when Shooter saw this he thought maybe Dunham had a brain fart.
No fear. Jeff managed to lampoon everyone.
Enjoy

 

So many facts presented and ignored, all dismissed, Complete reversal of Detective Friday, "Not interested in the facts Ma'am" in effect a Sisyphean task discussing reality with Trump supporters

 

‘Herd mentality?’ Watch Maddow rip Trump’s disastrous ABC News town hall meeting

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/he...trumps-disastrous-abc-news-town-hall-meeting/

 

"I know more than the head of the CDC knows" the mans a fucking genius, what not to love about him.

 

‘Sleepy’ Donald Trump mocked for ‘sedated slurring’ speech at Constitution Day event

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/sl...ed-slurring-speech-at-constitution-day-event/

 

@Distant Lover and the other despicables around here very much enjoy asking "Where's that check from Mexico?" anytime President Trump's promises come up in discussion, or any time immigration is a topic.

Well, the President of Mexico is repaying one debt.
Water.
It turns out that Mexico has been failing to send promised water back across the border in a complicated water allocation thingy that has been around for decades. None of the other Presidents have pushed Mexico to repay this debt.
Until, that is, President Trump stepped in.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mexican-president-vows-pay-us-170053377.html
Mexican president vows to pay US water debt, thanks Trump

 

I see there is footage online from Fairfax, Virginia of pro-Trump supporters trying to prevent people from casting an early ballot!

I will post some clips tomorrow as it has been a long day but perhaps this is what makes america great?

G'night all.....

Thinskin

 

Also the latest piece of insanity from the chump in chief is that he wants to sign an executive order to stop Biden running for President.

News channels loved that over here.

You could not make this shit up!

Thinskin

 

Well, someone is making up this shit.

Whats funny is, Dutch dipshit swallows it all.

Hey, thinskin, did you hear? Biden now claims he was sent here from the future to ssve us from Trump!