Fox is reporting that Michael Cohen was back on TikTok last night using the Trump trial to troll for dollars. Cohen reportedly appeared in a teeshirt showing Trump in an orange jumpsuit and asked for more followers. He also reportedly announced his candidacy for Congress, which would allow him to take one of the seemingly few oaths that the serial perjurer has not violated.
Who would have thought that District Attorney Alvin Bragg calling a porn star to the stand would be the moral high ground for key witnesses? Next could be a disbarred, convicted perjurer who is still seeking to make money off the case.
Cohen previously pledged not to discuss the trial after many of us objected to Judge Juan Merchan’s gag order as unconstitutional, particularly as to Cohen who has continued to attack Trump on the air while defending the gag order for his own protection.
Cohen’s prior promise lasted a record of a couple days before he broke it on TikTok. Now he is appearing with a teeshirt mocking Trump and using the moment to pursue a congressional seat.
For Judge Merchan, this is precisely what he was warned about. He has stubbornly enforced his poorly written and excessively broad order. After admitting that this was a “case of first impression” on the extension of gag orders to such things as repostings on social media, Merchan clarified his meaning not with a new order but by imposing sanctions on Trump.
Trump is now appealing the gag order and Cohen is doing his best to undermine not just his residual credibility but that of the court. Between the lurid testimony of Daniels and the continued antics of Cohen, Merchan looks completely feckless, if not farcical, in his own courtroom.
For Merchan and the prosecutors, none of this can come as a surprise.
There is an old fable of a scorpion who wants to cross a river and convinced a hesitant frog to carry him on its back. After all, if he stung the frog in the river, they both would die. That seemed logical so the frog agreed to do so only to have the scorpion deliver a lethal sting halfway across. When the frog asked why the scorpion would doom them both, the scorpion replies: “I am sorry, but I couldn’t resist the urge. It’s in my nature.”
Cohen has always been open as a grifter.
The problem is not Cohen. He continues to act to his nature. The problem is a political and legal system that enables him as a serial liar. It is a system that continues to call Cohen to the stand and ask him to swear to God to offer the “truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth” without a signature joke drum roll before his punchline.
Yet, Cohen now wants to take an oath of office in the legislative branch. He seems to collect oaths the way some collect animal heads for a trophy wall. The question is whether other members could suppress laughter when he swears that he is taking the oath of office “without… purpose of evasion.”
NB: A version of this column appeared on the New York Post.
Cohen in Congress?
He’d fit in fine.
A pox on both sides of the aisle.
If one could be bothered to look, this pathetic dude is likely scattered across the less-than-savory web just like his hero, Hunter. Funny how Hunter just evaporated into a wisp of smoke, totally and completely, just like that, huh? Pfft. spare us the juvenility, idiot. We are not that stupid, and not half as depraved, privileged, or misguided as the likes of you. Not even those on the left. Guffaw.
A liar, perjurer and grifter for Congress…? What else is new? Cohen will fit right in with all the other mainstream Democrats, and Republicans, not to mention dual-citizens…
What to make a difference? Want a change in our political climate? Might consider this… FWIW:
None but a citizen, born or naturalized, shall be eligible to vote for President, Vice-President, Senator, or Representative, or other elective office, under the Constitution of the United States.
None but a citizen, registered to vote in any state, may make campaign contributions to Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates, Senatorial candidates in their registered state, and candidates for Representative in the Congressional district in which they reside.
None but a citizen, registered to vote in any state, shall make any campaign contribution, except in the calendar year prior to the election.
Each state legislature shall determine campaign contribution limits for all candidates standing for office within the state.
Doesnt a conviction require more than the testimony of an alleged accomplice (Cohen)? What is the corroboration?
My wife and I never were so involved in the political news of the day until the Clinton versus Trump presidential campaign in 2016.
And here we are, nearly 8 years older, the political news of the day is not gone from our daily lives, even as the ‘unifier’ (Joe Biden) was going to bring a unifying and steady hand back to the White House. Didn’t happen and we who have been aware of who Joe Biden is and was, dating back at least to his 1988 presidential campaign, should have foreseen it was another of those ‘big lies’ told by those inside the Beltway. And just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, the mainstream media are headlining that RFK, Jr.’s brain has been partially eaten by a parasitic worm — Jesus ! Unbelievable…..
“Cohen reportedly appeared in a teeshirt showing Trump in an orange jumpsuit . . .” (JT)
The primary purpose of a gag order is to protect a *defendant’s* right to a fair trial.
In this case, we have a Leftist judge who gags the defendant, while leaving a prosecution witness free to smear the defendant in public.
If you still believe that this is a fair trial, then you are willfully blind — and beyond reason.
“There is an old fable of a scorpion who wants to cross a river and convinced a hesitant frog to carry him on its back. After all, if he stung the frog in the river, they both would die. That seemed logical so the frog agreed to do so only to have the scorpion deliver a lethal sting halfway across. When the frog asked why the scorpion would doom them both, the scorpion replies: “I am sorry, but I couldn’t resist the urge. It’s in my nature.”
Cohen has always been open as a grifter.”
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Indeed you do.
Cut the senseless off-topic bickeriing from this comment section and it’s a two-minute read, beginning to end.
It seems Judge Merchan is cut from the same cloth as Roland Freisler the presiding over the People’s Court, the German kangaroo court that always decided in favor of the prosecution under Hitlers government.
It’s long past time to take America back to the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Arrest the antitrust racketeers, that is to say 90% of the billionaires, try them for their crimes, arrest the top tier of their stooges, which is probably a like figure of top executives of major corps, universities, nonprofits, and major political figures of both parties; purge the military industrial intelligence complex of incompetents and traitors; that’s what would be necessary for a sufficient reform that would save the nation within existing boundaries. And that is all the most unlikely outcome
Maybe if we can do something like that without worrying too much about existing boundaries, it would be a second best, but we might actually survive
one way or another, nobody at the top will give up easy and they don’t give a fig about “America” or the laws or human rights or your rights or any ideology whatsoever!
its US or THEM
Saloth Sar
In keeping with the carnival atmosphere of the New York trial, Judge Merchan has permitted Storm Daniels to sell DVDs of her movies at a concession stand just outside the courthouse without a license.
Judge Merchan stopped by the stand to purchase solo and girl-girl DVDs because his daughter Loren was interested in those. And Alvin Bragg bought a variety of DVDs claiming they were highly relevant to discovery for his case.
They don’t care about the law, justice, morality or ethics. They want to do whatever they can do in order to get Trump convicted by a jury of his “peers” before SCOTUS says that the prosecution is Unconstitutional, and they are being aided by the judge to get it done. Then the Dems can use “he’s a convicted criminal” and he was only saved by a “stacked Supreme Court” for the rest of the campaign.
Correctimundo.
Jonathan: With all focus on DJT’s Manhattan trial you have missed some other interesting news. Here’s an update:
Back on 4/17 you wrote a column defending the right of right-wing racist commentator Ann Coulter to speak at Cornell. Well, Coulter is back in the news. Yesterday, she was on Vivek Ramaswamy’s “Truth” podcast with more of her racist tropes. For those who don’t remember VR, whose parents immigrated here from India, was a GOP presidential candidate this year before dropping out of the race. Anyway, this is what Coulter told the host:
“I agreed with many, many things you said…when you were running for president, but still I would not have voted for you because you’re an Indian. There is a core national identity of the WASP. And that doesn’t mean we can’t take anyone else in–a Sri Lankan or a Japanese, or an Indian. But the core around our nation’s values are found in the WASP”. VR didn’t seemed ruffled by Coulter’s racist comment about his heritage.
But Rep. Ted Lieu, who was born in Taipei, Taiwan, had his own take on Coulter’s comments: “I was surprised that Ann Coulter made a racist statement about Vivek. What surprised me is the weakness and lack of self respect of @Vivek Ramaswamy. He’s actually promoting this episode and praising the person who spewed raw racism…”
I mention this episode because Coulter spoke at Cornell and you think she is the person the University should have welcomed with open arms?!
some other interesting news
news
That word does not mean what you think it means
Do you plan to vote for the billionaire who banged a porn star into unconsciousness,
the man who says his Snickers is too small,
or the baby-killer who fed his brain to a worm?
@ScottAdamsSays
I know who I’m voting for.
Stormy Daniels’ salacious affair story keeps changing because encounter never happened, Trump team claims
Trump defense attorney Susan Necheles says Stormy Daniels ‘made it up’
By: Brooke Singman – Fox News ~ May 09, 2024
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/stormy-daniels-salacious-affair-story-keeps-changing-because-encounter-never-happened-trump-team-claims
Video Foxnews.com: foxnews.com/video/6352606697112
Link:
https://vod.foxnews.com/media/v1/pmp4/static/clear/694940094001/e69a099c-e228-4cda-8812-b4110df5c3ed/740b14c1-9f43-4f9a-b09f-dd2e2d6cacaf/main.mp4 \
So Turley has a problem with Cohen taking a oath if he was to be elected. And Turley enables and protects Trump the most proven and documented liar in American history.
Do you plan to vote for:
1) the billionaire who banged a porn star into unconsciousness,
2) the man who says his Snickers is too small,
3) or the baby-killer who fed his brain to a worm?
@ScottAdamsSays
I’m gonna guess Fishy is voting for the guy who had a parasite eating his brain.
Or the “hey, these companies are ripping me off by putting fewer snacks in muh snackpack” dementia patient.
Actually Fishbrain, Joe Biden is by FAR the most documented liar in American political history — going back 50 years. Biden had to end his presidential campaign way back when, after he was found out, yet again, to be a liar and plagiarist. It’s a mental illness with Biden. He literally can do nothing BUT lie. He’s done it for 50 years in PUBLIC office. WELL DOCUMENTED.
Actually Fishbrain, Trump tells the truth FAR more than any other political figure in Washington DC. You’d know this if you did not watch “the fake news” that LIES to you daily.
You can keep your doctor if you like your doctor
We must pass the Bill to know what is in the Bill
If you take the vax you will not catch Covid
If you take the vax you will not transmit Covid
Ivermectin is horse paste and useless
Fly fly fly little fishwing
Thank you all for showing your willful ignorance.
I’m not interested Michael Cohen
Stormy Daniels makes a profit in her porn profession. Who are the other clients & what do they pay? Itemized deductions?
What does Stormy Daniels declare on her IRS taxes?
Did Stormy Daniels pay the IRS tax bill?
Stephanie Clifford aka Stormy Daniels owes the IRS $51,480 of that hush money.
If he runs as a Democrat he’s in. He has the qualifications.
It is very interesting how the global communist Deep Deep State “Swamp” Regime took out Jeffrey Epstein posthaste, while Real President Donald J. Trump stands in the gap for the benefit of once-free actual Americans, courageously suffering the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” delivered by the communists’ “Epstein,” their nouveau hero du jour, Jezebel. What were the odds on the persistence of Jezebel at the outset? How long did the Kennedys allow Marilyn Monroe to threaten disclosure and dissemination? Real President Donald J. Trump’s America is a “kinder and gentler nation,” right?
@George
No doubt. It is astonishing how leftists destroy the very things that enable their twee and sad comfort; it won’t end well for them; the rest of us who are not spoiled, aristocratic babies, will be fine, just fine. And they will beg us for admittance into our functional world. So beyond absurd, I can’t believe we are even discussing it. Really. It is 2024.
Yet, behold: the 21st century. You on the left that enabled this: as stated before, good luck when your dollars are less than toilet paper. 😝😝 The rest of us will pursue things as far as we can within the confines of government and law, but barring that, again, good luck. We will not be the ones begging, and that is a promise.
Jonathan: Just like clock work your column comes just before Michael Cohen is due to testify next week in the Manhattan criminal trial. It’s probably the last of your many hit jobs on Cohen–although maybe you will have another column just before Cohen testifies. Anything new in your columns that we don’t know already about Cohen? Nope. You have already struck out on all your other claims about the trial–e.g., that Justice Merchan’s gag order is “unconstitutional”. So now you are at your final at bat–hoping to hit a home run by attacking Cohen.
The brilliance DA Bragg’s presentation of his case in chief is that he didn’t start off with Cohen. He laid the foundation for Cohen’s testimony by presenting documentary and witness testimony, e.g., David Pecker, Hope Hicks and others who laid out in detail the conspiracy to pay off Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal and the doorman. All that evidence has already established the crimes of DJT. Cohen has the audio tapes of his many phone conversations with DJT–when and how to pay off Daniels. He will be the icing on the cake!
Naturally, DJT’s attorneys will try to portray Cohen as a “serial liar”: “If you lied and went to prison for those lies why should the jury now believe you?”. Only one problem. Cohen’s testimony will be CONSISTENT with all the docs and witness testimony that came before. Fortunately, the jury will decide whether to believe Cohen. Not anything you have claimed in your many columns!
Is Dennis panicking at the polls or simply suffering another acute phase of his OCD?
Interesting thing about opinion polling…
Anyone who has ever worked on a political campaign knows that, this far away from an election, really the only thing that can be learned from them is to look at trending numbers. A 1 or 2 or 3 point lead in isolation really means nothing…
But a 1 point lead that becomes a 2 point lead that becomes a 3 point lead points to a trend…
And today, for the first time in 6 months, Biden has moved ahead in Arizona. Let’s see what happens in future polling, and it’s worth noting that trump’s claim that being on trial actually helps him (beyond $ raising) is looking really dubious right about now…
So mark this date on your calender as one that could show the hopeful emperor as having no clothes (and a morbidly obese gut beneath).
Conspiracy
That word does not mean what you think it does
Actually, it does.
conspiracy; an agreement by two or more persons to commit a crime, fraud, or other wrongful act.
not close to defining these proceedings.
You can start by reading the indictment
I’m not sure who you represent or report to but in my reading your comments demonstrate the fear that people (and Dems in particular) have of Professor Turley’s analysis of all aspects of this and other cases.
Prior to 2016 I was an independent but converted when faced with the prospect of President Hillary. As such I look for input from people who don’t have “skin in the game”. Professor Turley has been my go to guy and one of the very few that I trust for several reasons:
First, he is a renowned Constitutional scholar. He is from a politically active Democrat family and is himself a lifelong Democrat. While we come from different political viewpoints it demonstrates his ability to speak truth over politics. He is not a Trump fan, but he is a huge fan of the constitution and the rule of law as demonstrated in his participation in the first impeachment attempt. That shows real character despite the inevitable vitriol he would receive from partisans like yourself.
From comments like yours it is clear that partisans like yourself fear people from your side of the aisle who are willing to speak the truth as much or more than the scary orange man.
FYI, the TikTok he references has been widely reported on news outlets. Not watching it doesn’t make it less real. Nice try. Better luck next time🙄
“He is from a politically active Democrat family and is himself a lifelong Democrat. While we come from different political viewpoints it demonstrates his ability to speak truth over politics.”
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Acturally, it demonstrates a lawyer’s professional ability to take the side of whoever PAYS him.
In this case, the client is Fox News — aka Rupert Murdoch — and Fox News has repeatedly demonstrated a tactic of taking Trump’s side on issues, only to get Trump supporters to wrongfully trust and tune in to Fox News so that maximum damage is done when they turn on Trump like a rattlesnake, as happened just before the 2020 election when Fox held the fake debate that had Chris Wallace repeatedly step in to argue with Trump while Joetard stood there mumbling and blinking.
I agree that Fox often sets unrealistic expectations that don’t come to fruition. Of course there are some very “Trump Friendly” opinion hosts but there are some pretty good straight news folks too. Bret Baier and Martha McCallum are pretty fair and generally stay out of the mud. Having said that, I regularly watch Fox because it’s a shorter journey to the truth from there than the legacy media propagandists. As a conservative it’s impossible to watch that crap.
I think he would be happy to speak his piece on those shows but they are too afraid to give him a platform. Yes, attorneys take the side that pays them but I don’t think that’s the case with Trump’s impeachment. I think he took that because he believed it was wrong on constitutional grounds. As for his opinions expressed on Fox, it sure seems like he believes in everything he says. Personally, I think it’s cynical to assume his legal/constitutional opinions are determined by who’s paying him. He strikes me as a lover of the constitution above politics.
For me to support a Democrat for having integrity is astonishing but the Professor has stated that he doesn’t even recognize his party. People can believe whatever they want and I believe he is an astute and honest constitutionalist despite being paid to speak on news programs. Even the notoriously liberal (and a little crazy) Alan Dershowitz seems to echo many of his positions.
I’m still waiting for Professor Turley to reach out to me with a PR job for my defense of him here🤣
Well, Turley didn’t put a link to the video Cohen produced to allegedly Mock Trump. That says a couple of things. Since it is being “reported” he apparently isn’t keen on the details of what was actually said in the tik tok.
Wearing a T-shirt to mock Trump would hardly be proof that he’s talking about the trial. Turley is insinuating a lot without much to back it up and that seems sketchy. The gag order is specific on what can and cannot be said. It’s also a gag order against trump, not the witnesses. Cohen is not the defendant in the criminal trial, Trump is. So a gag order applying to him does not necessarily apply to Cohen.
Turmp has a gag order imposed because he has a very clear and detailed history of trying to muddle up the order imposed by a judge and he has a history of intimidating witnesses or letting his supporters do the dirty work for him. Cohen knows, because he used to do it for Trump for years.
Until we know what Cohen said in his tik tok video we can’t judge if he really violated the judge’s gag order or spoke about the case in a way that would be damaging.
Cohen is a reflection of Trump’s own character. That’s why he picked him to be his lawyer for years.
@George
Well, George, clearly you got today’s MSNBC missive. Good on you for following up. Nobody cares. Let us know when your orders include ratting on, rounding up, and killing dissenters. 😚😚 Love you, too, bro. 😚