Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s onetime fixer and lawyer, has admitted to a federal court that he was the source of fake case citations used to support his effort to end his supervised release from his earlier criminal convictions. He blamed Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the error, he also seemed to throw his own attorney under the bus for not checking his work.
U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman was a bit peeved when his clerks checked the authority cited by Cohen, including such cases as “United States v. Figueroa-Flores, United States v. Ortiz and United States v. Amato.” None existed.
In fairness, Cohen is not the first person to be burned by AI. Of course, critics have noted that the faux authority is perfectly consistent with Cohen’s legal career, which is a litany of misrepresentations and outright lies.
Cohen now says that the culprit is Google Bard, an AI service, and that he was only the latest victim of AI invention. However, one of the most interesting aspects of the statement is that Cohen asks for understanding that he is only a layperson, not a lawyer. He was, of course, disbarred as a lawyer after pleading guilty various federal crimes.
Cohen told the court:
“As a non-lawyer, I have not kept up with emerging trends (and related risks) in legal technology and did not realize that Google Bard was a generative text service that, like Chat-GPT, could show citations and descriptions that looked real but actually were not. Instead, I understood it to be a super-charged search engine and had repeatedly used it in other contexts to (successfully) find accurate information online.”
He then put part of the blame on his non-AI lawyer, David Schwartz, and emphasized that it was in the end Schwartz’ filing, not his:
“It did not occur to me then and remains surprising to me now—that Mr. Schwartz would drop the cases into his submission wholesale without even confirming that they existed. I deeply regret any problems Mr. Schwartz’s filing may have caused.”
Cohen’s current counsel E. Danya Perry, asked that his client “not suffer any collateral damage from Mr. Schwartz’s misstep.”
The problems with AI are well-known, but so is Cohen’s checkered history with the courts.
As I have previously written, Cohen has a long history of alleged lies and half-truths in dealing with the government or courts.
In 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to various charges, including tax evasion, campaign finance violations, lying to Congress and several banks to obtain campaign financing and was sentenced to three years in prison.
He unsuccessfully sued Trump on the basis of a verbal contract that again put his own dubious veracity at issue.
As noted in earlier proceedings in Manhattan, Cohen has continued to misrepresent his criminal background and, after assuring the court that he was remorseful for his crimes, was regularly going on the air to deny that he committed tax fraud and suggesting that he was railroaded by prosecutors.
Prosecutors cited his numerous media appearances as containing false accounts of himself and his case: “while Cohen is free to write and say what he wants, he cannot simultaneously distance himself from his conduct on cable news, while cloaking himself in claims of acceptance of responsibility in court filings.”
I became a critic of Cohen long before he broke with the President. He was a disgrace to the bar for years and Trump bears equal blame for retaining such a person as his legal representative.
What Cohen lacked in legal skill, he made up for in a lack of ethical and professional standards.
In 2015, students on The Harvard Lampoon played a harmless prank on Trump by having him sit in the stolen “president’s chair” from the Harvard Crimson for a photo. Cohen threatened the students with absolute ruination. He was quoted by a student on the Lampoon staff as saying: “I’m gonna come up to Harvard. You’re all gonna get expelled. If this photo gets out, you’ll be outta that school faster than you know it. I can be up there tomorrow.”
On another occasion, after a journalist pursued a story he did not like, Cohen told the reporter that he should “tread very f—ing lightly because what I’m going to do to you is going to be f—ing disgusting. Do you understand me?”
Cohen remained Trump’s loyal attack dog until he was arrested and Trump refused to pardon him, That is when Cohen proved that when you scratch a lawyer, you can find a foe.
Cohen has been gaming the system his entire career. He claimed urgent medical needs for release from prison. Of course, he previously claimed health problems in failing to appear to testify only to be spotted out on the town for a fancy dinner. Cohen previously (and implausibly) reinvented himself as a redemptive sinner and received financial support from Trump critics. He continued that pattern after his conviction.
Perry told Fox News Digital in a statement: “These filings—and the fact that he was willing to unseal them—show that Mr. Cohen did absolutely nothing wrong. He relied on his lawyer, as he had every right to do. Unfortunately, his lawyer appears to have made an honest mistake in not verifying the citations in the brief he drafted and filed.”
A federal court previously denied early release after prosecutors claimed that Cohen has reformed little and is still misrepresenting facts. Submitting fake case authority is obviously not ideal in claiming the status of a changed man.
The latest controversy is likely to be raised in the prosecution of Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg where Cohen is expected to be a key witness. The lack of authority, however, does not appear to be a detriment in that case which is pushing unprecedented legal claims. Time to call in the Google Bard?
Would you like to hear someone who tells the truth?
Harvard University of the “Poison Ivy League” retains an abject fraud and plagiarist, one even more egregious than the proven plagiarist, fraud, and philanderer, Martin Luther King, the one and only, Claudine Gay.
___________________________
DR. CAROL SWAIN
YOU HAVE GOT TO UTTERLY LOVE THIS BRILLIANT BLACK WOMAN.
I DO!
“Well, if Claudine Gay was a White male or female, or even a Black conservative, she would have been fired by now.”
“The penalty normally for plagiarism at that level is that you lose your position, but most people would resign. “
“She plagiarized my work as well as several other people.”
“It’s my understanding that 20 instances of plagiarism was found in her dissertation and publish words.”
“There’s no way you can’t know it. My book won the highest prize in the profession and two other national prizes.”
“It was cited by the US Supreme Court and numerous lower court decisions. There’s no way that Claudine Gay, her committee members, her reviewers, and other people didn’t know that she was drawing on my research.”
“Harvard University is morally bankrupt and we see this at every turn.”
“Now they have themselves in a conundrum where they’re trying to redefine what is plagiarism. I believe they’re doing this because they don’t want to fire their first ever Black president, someone who was clearly a DEI appointee.”
“For me, as a person who became a Black conservative, not citing my work had long term consequences because your statue in political science and in any other fields pretty much depends on how much you have cited your citations.”
“If you have someone that’s as prominent as she became and they have research out there, and they are not acknowledging the similar work in the area, that damages you because you don’t get the number of citations you would have gotten.”
“The scandal is indicative of a larger problem with diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives on college campuses.”
“It’s not following the Constitution. It’s very dangerous.
“It’s harming people and racial and ethnic minorities are the ones that are harmed most. I think that people need to realize that critical race theory, diversity, equity and inclusion programs are not necessary.”
“[The] White progressives [backing Gay at Harvard have caused irreparable damage].”
– Dr. Carol Swain
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‘[Harvard’s governing body…found Gay responsible for ‘a few instances of inadequate citation,’ and that Gay is requesting corrections to address those instances. The statement also included a statement of support for Gay, claiming she ‘is the right leader to help our community heal and to address the very serious societal issues we are facing.’”
– Harvard University
I find that eating a large meal just before taking my Viagra, inhibits my ability to maintain an erection when I am cornholing my favorite nephew in his beautiful pink ass hole.
REGARDING ABOVE:
That’s Tom/Estovir, our resident puppeteer; a repressed homosexual who can’t stop writing about gay sex.
Tom/Estovir is also James, Jimmy, Thinkthrough, Upstate Farmer, Iowa2, Edward Mahl, Guy Ventner, Shakdi, dgsnowden, Ralph Chappell and many, many more.
trurdrunner strikes again!^^^^
Bwahahahahaha. He seems to appreciate the advice from his good friend, Dennis the unconvicted pedophile.
turdrunner shows his true colors. He thinks cornholing an 8 year old boy is just “gay sex”.
He too is an unconvicted pedophile.
+100
Estovir, your true colors are sowing in the sense that you can’t shut up about this crap.
Sowing???
I spy tears in their eyes
They look to the skies for some kind of divine intervention
Food goes to waste
So nice to eat, so nice to taste
Politician granny with your high ideals
Have you no idea how the majority feels?
So without love and a promised land
We’re fools to the rules of a government plan
Sowing the seeds of love (anything is possible)
Seeds of love
Sowing the seeds of love
Sowing the seeds of love
Seeds of love
Sowing the seeds
“Mommy, make Estovir stop skull fvcking me and outing me as the unconvicted pedophile that I am!!!!”—–turdrunner
Bizarre.
Same name, different geometric icon. Will the real Dennis McIntyre please stand up?
He can’t. He just ate a big meal. It will take some time for the blue pill to work.
The Harvard Board of Overseers needs to appoint a committee headed by Doris Kearns Goodwin to investigate these allegations of plagiarism.
“Doris Kearns Goodwin, Liar”
“First she plagiarized. Then she claimed it wasn’t plagiarism.”
– Timothy Noah, Slate
Jonathan: In your last column I raised the issue of Nikki Haley’s faux paus in trying to explain the causes of the Civil War. There were a number of comments on this blog in response–attempts at revisionist history.
“Estovir” opined that the Civil War was not about slavery at all but “a dispute over money and self-determination”. He quoted from the historian Samuel Mitcham’s book, the neo-Confederate apologist from Mer Rouge, LA, who thinks the War not about slavery but “The War for Southern Self-Determination”. Most historians don’t agree with Mitcham’s attempt at revisionist history.
“edwardmahl” tries to thread the needle. He asks: “What is the ‘root cause’ of any historical event?”. Besides, he says, “the majority of Southerners did not oppose slaves”. That’s not an explanation for the Civil War. What ed forgets is that the majority of Whites in the South were sharecroppers. They saw slaves as competition for their labor. And they would have liked to own slaves but they didn’t have the money. The only difference between white sharecroppers and slaves is the former sold their labor for a pittance while the slaveholders got their labor for free. The slave owners were willing to sacrifice 250,000 Confederate soldiers–mostly poor white sharecroppers–in the cause of slavery. They didn’t want to endanger the lives of their “property”. Besides, slaveholders didn’t want to put guns in the hands of slaves that might turn them on their masters.
What was missing in our discussion was “George”. He loves to quote Karl Marx endlessly. So let me fill in for George. Marx was a keen observer of the Civil War. He wrote columns for US and European newspapers about the War. In 1861 Marx wrote an article for “Die Presse” in which he demolished the argument of the secessionists that other issues, such as state’s rights or tariffs, rather than slavery, explained the War. He took Alexander Stephens, the vice president of the Confederacy, at his word when Stephens admitted slavery was the real reason for Southern secession. Marx wrote:
“The question of the principle of the American Civil War is answered by the battle slogan with which the South broke
the peace. Stephens…declared in the secession Congress that what essentially distinguished the Constitution hatched
at Montgomery from the Constitution of the Washingtons and Jeffersons was that now for the first time slavery was
recognized as the institution for good in itself, and as the foundation of the whole state edifice…”
Marx put his finger on the real cause of the Civil War. It was slavery and the secessionists were bound and determined to protect it. No amount of revisionist history will change that reality!
So WHAT???
So your Democrats wanted their slaves. So WHAT???
George wasn’t missing you imbecile. Go look again.
Dennis McIntyre is an unconvicted pedophile and he is afraid I will show proof here on this blog.
—Joseph Smith
+100
McInlyre, get a clue! Estovir, Edward Mahl and that anonymous who keeps calling you a peodophile are all the same person.
Bwahahahahaaha thats the spirit anon!
Anonymous: Do you think? When are we going to see some, beyond the usual suspects, who actually addresses the issues? Beyond pedophilia, all them, by whatever handle, have nothing else to offer. They may all be one person which says a lot about the quality of comments on Turley’s blog!
Tell us about all those sharecroppers again, you lying pedophile.
Prior to the Civil War, sharecropping is known to have existed in Mississippi and is believed to have been in place in Tennessee.[20][21] However, it was not until the economic upheaval caused by the American Civil War and the end of slavery during and after Reconstruction that it became widespread in the South.
Got any more lies for us today, unconvicted pedophile?
Utterly inane and irrelevant data.
The sole material fact is that secession was and is not prohibited, and secession was and is fully constitutional.
Southern States, by law, may have seceded (i.e. they would have ultimately failed and sought reunification, of sanity and rationality, as Europe was already threatening their viability).
Lincoln was an egregious criminal of high office who must have been impeached per the Constitution for abuse of power, usurpation or power, subversion of fundamental law, and savage and barbarous armed insurrection.
Reprehensible slavery must have been abrogated legislatively.
Freed slaves, prohibited from being allowed into the country to become citizens per extant immigration law, must have been compassionately repatriated by law, as is typically the desire of all long-suffering abductees, understanding that non-citizens do not possess the rights of citizens and mass ingress of population constitutes a legally untenable foreign invasion.
Karl Marx won out and the “dictatorship of the hired help” was imposed on America along with Karl Marx’s motto: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
Look around you at the prodigious and pervasive communist American welfare state.
Unconstitutionally, irrationally and treasonously, current illegal alien invaders are being enrolled in financial aid programs and will soon vote.
What this clown is saying is that in a society of laws, the laws may be ignored arbitrarily and whimsically.
What this clown is saying is that the Constitution does, in fact, not provide maximal freedom to individuals while severely limiting and restricting government, but the Constitution says to elected officials, “Do anything you like, whenever you like.”
“Crazy Abe” said his unconstitutional war was not about slavery but about SAVING THE UNION.
Which was utter nonsense as many States had a guarantee of secession in their State Constitutions, providing themselves the option if it became necessary.
“Crazy Abe” illegally and unconstitutionally invaded a sovereign foreign nation.
“Crazy Abe” was a wanton megalomaniacal criminal of high office.
Dennis – you respond to me by saying that the majority of whites were sharecroppers. I don’t believe that is true. I believe It was the ex-slaves who were most likely to become sharecroppers. But even if you are correct, it is hard to see how that would dispose them to support the system of slavery. It seems it should have been the opposite: a burning resentment of the people who did not work, but who prospered. The mania to identify slavery as the root cause, or main cause, of the separation of the states is unhistorical. The South had come to despise and fear the ever-expanding North. They saw a better future for their “nation within a nation” by orientating themselves further southwards, where they dreamed of a greater Confederacy.
Dick head Mcgillicutty posted to info disputing dennis egregious lie.
He will not answer for it. He will just move along to his next lie.
Precisely who ended American freedom after a mere 71 years and uncontitutioally, violently, and forcibly commenced America’s descension into the status of a Third World, s—hole country?
“Crazy Abe” Lincoln, who backed into office with a whopping 39.8% “mandate” to effect the incremental implementation of the principles of communism of his fellow traveler, Karl Marx, starting with the removal of so-called “classes” in society.
That’s not an explanation for the Civil War. What ed forgets is that the majority of Whites in the South were sharecroppers.
I would call you an idiot, but that would give you an excuse. You just make up lies to advance your stupid narrative. MOST farmers were share croppers? You dont even understand the term, You are clueless about agriculture, and know nothing of agriculture of the mid 1800’s There are 110 way’s you are wrong about this and too stupid to understand even one of them.
This rates up there with your flailing dissertation on appropriate deer hunting weaponry.
“Marx put his finger . . .”
You’re citing Marx on slavery?!
His ideas are responsible for the slave pens in Soviet Russia, China, Cambodia, et al.
AI will never be a Commander Data, math simply doesn’t work that way. At best it could resemble a dumb animal, it can’t think about thinking; it can only compare and regurgitate pre-existing data. It’s like if an artist traced something instead of naturally drawing it and added embellishments drawn from another tracing, ad nauseam; eventually it simply becomes a loop, and that is fundamental no matter how vast a database is (that has always been the fallacy of ‘big data’) or how rapidly calculations are processed. It might even be more glaringly apparent with quantum level rapidity.
That said: unscrupulous and/or ignorant people could absolutely wreck the world by putting a dumb animal in charge of – well, anything important whatsoever. It’s another Silicon Valley scam very much misrepresented by its advocates in the name of $$$ or flat-out stupidity, and its unfettered *use* for anything but trivial scenarios actually IS a problem.
And that said: couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. 😐
James,
Might not be Commander Data, but some of these are good enough to fool most people.
And I might add, there are a lot of people who are easily fooled, re: Russiagate, “insurrection,” 51 intelligence officers etc.
REGARDING ABOVE:
Here’s Tom/Estovir as Upstate Farmer answering Tom/Estovir as James. These exchanges between puppets go on all day.
Here’s ‘bad’ anonymous posting non-sequitur boosheet most of us know by now to just scroll through . Pfft. Whatever. Why you are here if you are not paid to do so is a real head scratcher. My scalp is sore at this point. I cannot imagine that trolling is all that profitable in this day and age. Get a life, dude/chick/other. Nobody cares.
@Upstate
Yup, and therein lies the problem. Social media brain is the real plague of the 21st century. That and the woke mind virus, as Elon would say. Coupled, they represent a whole lotta hard years ahead of us that know better. That modern engineers in Silicon Valley can’t parse this out – yikes.
He should go back to making movies with his brothers.
Cohen using AI is the latest ploy by the psychopaths who run our institutions to avoid responsibility for their actions. The goal is to say that the entire government will be run by AI, thus allowing the psychopaths to impose their zombie medico-fascist techno-collectivist agenda on the entire country without fear of culpability.
AI is a total scam; all you have to do is use one of these large language models to see how dumb and propagandized it is. It’s just another tool of the Dark Side. AGI is a joke; a wet dream of guys like Kurzweil and Altman. It will never happen. But the psychopaths use AI to scare people by claiming that it is far more intelligent than humans and that we are powerless against it, so should just submit like willing slaves. Sorry Cohen, you are a scam just like the AI you are using as an excuse for your gaslighting and criminality.
You are right about the hype about AI.
AI is nothing more than computer programs.
Note to self: George Clooney and Harvey Keitel played fixers in the movies Michael Clayton and Pulp Fiction, respectively. In both instances, the fixers were dynamic, brilliant, and charming.
The reality is Michael Cohen. I once suspected Cohen impeached his own testimony to protect Mr. Trump. Mr. Cohen has since disabused me of that misapprehension. Cohen really is that dumb.
Hollywood is wrong, again. Good lawyers don’t “fix.” They leave skirting the law to status-seeking incompetents, such as fixers, Soros prosecutors, and DOJ trolls—because those losers’ careers are expendable.
Mr. Smith, I’d stay away from “fixing” elections. McCabe, Strzok, and Page are—like Michael Cohen—finished.
Diogenes, you seem to know about lawyers. Explain why a ‘respectable businessman’ like Donald Trump would employ a disreputable lawyer like Cohen.
The Bidens have subverted an entire Justice Department… And you’re wrapped around the axle over one fixer who bullies gold diggers?
Diogenes, Cohen worked for Trump 12 years and he actually held a V P title with the Trump Organization.
Now how is it that a slimeball like Cohen managed to stay in Trump’s orbit that long??
Wouldn’t a big time New York developer retain a so-called ‘white shoe’ lawyer from a prominent firm??
It’s NYC, man. The big shots love hookers and gold diggers, and it’s a whole smoke-stack industry trying to shut them up. Ever heard of “client number 9?” “Bimbo eruptions?” C’mon, man!
Same reason Obama chose Eric Holder, or Biden chose Merck Garland.
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
– President Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Whom did Trump choose, Sessions and Barr?
Looks like the Deep Deep State “Swamp” Regime, through its senatorial “advise and consent” cudgel, chose William “Mr. Deep Deep State” Barr after the “advice and consent” mole, Sessions, became completely untenable.
I was wondering if somebody would go there. Let me remind you that Barr and Sessions both famously refused to give in to Trump.
Now, in Bug’s fevered imagination, Barr and Sessions are somehow more obsequious than Garland or Holder or Reno. No way, Bug.
Barr and Sessions both famously refused to give in to Trump???
What the —- does that mean?
Jonathan: Why now start attacking Michael Cohen now when you practically ignored him? I think I know why. Judge Chutkan’s case involving Jan 6 is still scheduled for Mar. 4. But with DJT’s attempts at delays by appeals makes it unlikely the trial date will hold. It is the case that should have gone first. So now the focus is on Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s trial over hush money payments to Stormy Daniels–starting March 24, the likely first criminal trial of DJT. And Michael Cohen will be a key witness in that case.
So now, out of the blue and in the service of DJT’s defense, you attempt to attack the credibility of Cohen as a witness in that case. It appears to be a clear attempt to taint the jury pool ahead of trial. The significance of Bragg’s case should not be underestimated and you recognize it’s threat to DJT. In 2016, voters were deprived of knowing who they were voting for–when just weeks before the election DJT, a married candidate, bought the silence of a sex partner by falsifying business records.
If DJT is convicted in Manhattan it will finally give voters the information they were deprived of in 2016–whether they want to vote for a convicted felon in 2024. The polls clearly show they don’t. The case in Manhattan is a bit late but nevertheless important for our justice system. DJT’s tryst with Stormy Daniels may yet come back to haunt DJT in 2024!
Dennis – your anti-Trump campaign is getting desperate. Let’s see if I understand. Somehow Trump invalidated his election by paying off a blackmailer. This is because we were all entitled to be informed of his sex life before voting. Were you around when Jack Kennedy and Bill Clinton ran for office?
Cohen . . . whatever.
It is the emerging possible threat AI represents that I find more concerning.
See that Barbenhemier short movie? Was it perfect? Nope. But two guys came up with that in three days using AI.
Some Spanish modeling company got tired of using real models, they were too flakey. So they used AI to make one. The “model” makes them $11,000 a month. It is SOFTWARE!
Some AI generated internet influencer has some 4.5 million followers. It is SOFTWARE!
And now, young men are opting for AI chatbot “girlfriends” to the real thing! It is SOFTWARE!
Upstate: “It is the emerging possible threat AI represents that I find more concerning.”
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Emerging threat or emerging opportunity?
Opportunity for whom? Or opportunity for what?
Young,
Good question.
I think it all depends on what the intent of the person using the AI.
For medical advances in curing cancer. Good.
For producing an entire generation of young men not capable of interacting with the fairer sex or even engage in healthy relationships with said fairer sex for a buck. Not so good.
For creating some deep fake of a person doing something evil in the name of gaining political points. Bad.
Having watched the short Barbenheimer, I can see how and why the writers and actors strike happened. Using AI, I could easily see how a studio could do away with production staff or even actors and replace them with a handful of programers using AI, reducing their overhead and increasing profits.
Technology can be a great thing and a destructive one.
Upstate,
I wonder if AI may be a factor in The Singularity Ray Kurzwell wrote about, an event so fundamental that we cannot reliably predict or imagine what lay beyond its horizon.
There might have been a hint of it in the tactical surprise Hamas had in the recent atrocity. I suspect [only guessing] that the Israelis came to rely so heavily on sophisticated intelligence systems that they ignored old-style warnings.
That happened in WWII with the Battle of the Bulge. We became so sure we knew everything because of Ultra that we ignored field reports from troops in the targeted region. Ultra didn’t pick up German preparation for an attack so field reports of German moves must be due to excitable soldiers and therefore discounted. But Hitler forbade electronic communications for that offensive so Ultra couldn’t see the reality the worried troops in the field were reporting and we were taken by surprise.
We can see something similar in the increased reliance on models to push public policy with climate or Covid, or whatever. The models become substitutes for reality and we cling to them even when they fail time after time.
At least now sober individuals can still use real events as a check on models gone rogue.
But what happens when AI becomes so sophisticated in its operations and so complex in its predictions that it presents a ‘reality’ that we can’t check by any other means? Do we dare ignore it? Do we dare use it. It is like playing chess with an amused god.
Technology has given a near example of this already. When a microscope was invented that could ‘see’ a benzene molecule one had to ask was the image real because this was the only way it could be seen. Perhaps we were looking only at a machine artifact. In this case so much basic study of benzene had been done since Kekule that there was near certainty that the hexagonal ring ‘seen’ in the new apparatus was genuine.
But we are at the point where AI is going to give us ‘realities’ that we cannot see or check by any other means. Then what do we do?
Young,
Interesting comment.
Elon Musk once pondered what if we were all trapped in a “Matrix” like reality or un-reality.
I do not recall who it was but they pondered what if we were products of a god’s dream?
As to if “. . . AI is going to give us ‘realities’ that we cannot see or check by any other means.”
EMP us all back to the stone age.
Upstate: “EMP us all back to the stone age.”
Tempting prayer.
Upstate,
AI will be sold as a cure for cancer or some such but I suspect that most investment in it will be military.
It is not hard to imagine an American AI in battle with a Chinese AI without our being able to comprehend more of their tactics and strategies than they may grant to us as a part of their tactics and strategy. We will only understand loss of blood and freedom without knowing why we suffer or gain, if gain is allowed. Perhaps caves will be safe from our new gods as our remote ancestors once discovered.
I wondered why Cohen was disbarred in the first place and then remembered that he isn’t black.
Jonathan, It’s Sunday for God’s sake.
Can’t we just focus on real leagle problems like that of the NFL Players.
Cohen can wait.
🏈💪🏆
NFL teams with the most players arrested since 2000
https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl-teams-most-players-arrested-174220687.html
Sorry, I’m in Melbourne (Australia) Sunday here, you Yanks aren’t even up yet.
Except today is Saturday.
The NFL? I didn’t know this was a sports blog. Go find one.
Michael Cohen is a low life liar and should have his sentence doubled, for his lies, games, etc. How any jury or judge/court can believe him? No creditability.
Spot on! And he’s a hero on MSNBC. Imagine that.
throw…. not though attorney under bus. Just trying to help
Something tells me a young Michael Cohen in grade school used the following line, “My dog ate my homework”. 📃🐕
📃🐕💩 (my dog’s version)
Truth is the glue that holds society together. True truth. The whole truth and nothing but the truth. Truth is the antidote for subversion, deceit and manipulation. That is why toxic leaders despise it.
This is like watching an eight year old trying to create an excuse when they were caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
Herein lies the issue with truth vs. facts. A person can hold truths that have nothing to do with indisputable facts. That is why it was so mind bending when Biden declared that, “We choose truth over facts.”
Tis a poor lawyer who is his own lawyer.
Cohen is correct….the Lawyer entered the Plea.
Which self respecting Lawyer would represent Cohen and trust anything Cohen had to say.
Those famous words….”Trust but verify” still ring true.
You have to admire his chutzpah
No you don’t.
There is only thing to decide. Whether Avenatti or Cohen will be at the top of the Democrat on 24 ticket after Joe has finished off Ukraine. Hunter will be in the wings in case one cant go. They are a shoe in. They will need a lot more than 2000 mules and the FBI DOJ and Belly Barr and Garland to get them over the finish line. Trump apparently not sure if Belly Barr worse than Garland or the other way around. That also is a horse race.
Schmuck
Cohen is another example of one of the two problems I have with Trump: His track record for picking associates and appointments is pretty dismal. While I don’t believe Trump is corrupt in any way, Secretary Pompeo is about the only one i think was a really good, totally honest man.
My other problem with Trump is his age.
Ask Juliane Assange and his family about that. His trade people were spectacular
Can you elaborate further ? Are you speaking about Pompeo or Trump ?
While I agree with you that Cohen is one of many examples of poor Trump picks. Pompeo is NOT an example of a good pick.
Trump’s very successful foreign policy came pretty much for a small cabal of lifelong associates at the WH – not state department.
Pompeo might have been a wise choice to offer Trump some protection fromt he deep state as he is a lifetime member, he is not a reflection of where we should be going.
Next – While There are examples of poor choices by Trump, there are also many many examples of excellent choices.
Trump has been successful in Many private domains, as well as as president.
That does not happen if the majority of your associates are not excellent.
John Say, I always like your comments but I disagree with you on Trump’s staffing. Trump will go for the good looking person the way Democrats go after a “box checker” for theirs.
You can hardly call William Barr good-looking – the man resembles nothing so much as an enormous toad.
River, I agree about Trump and his appointees and I also agree about Pompeo. I might add Barr as being honest, but after seeing Garland I will say that I wish Barr was more of a loyal Republican because when fighting against the fascist left we do need to get a little dirty once in awhile.
Barr is not honest. Everything he does is and attempt to create a legacy. Alas he has none.
yes
Gotta imagine it’s difficult to find someone with experience in government that is not a complete shitshow.
That being said, I keep looking for cohen’s character every time I watch wolf of wall st.
perfectly consistent with Cohen’s legal career, which is a litany of misrepresentations and outright lies.
Now do Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden, James Comey, et al, all legal “scholars”.
As an aside, so sorry Professor Turley about you being swatted. Shocking, repulsive, not surprising.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
– John Adams
Estovir,
Our leftists friends are in fact getting desperate, re: Swatting the good professor.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/legal-scholar-jonathan-turley-becomes-latest-swatting-victim/ar-AA1mdQHY
To the good professor,
Do not allow them to intimidate you. Keep up the good work.
#IStandWithTurley
@everyone
I am so sorry, Professor. Clearly the regime cares little about party leanings – all that matters is the regime. Wake the hell up people – it might very well be too late if we do not get progressives out of power next year. Do NOT give in to their intimidation.
September 17, 1787 – “A republic, if you can keep it.”
–Benjamin Franklin’s response to Elizabeth Willing Powel’s question: “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?”
James, We didn’t keep it.
After the money runs out, we might get one back. The problem is that we have millions of stupid, lazy freaks that received trophies just for showing up. They’ve infiltrated all of our federal government agencies right down to your local school board.
There is no end to what the left is willing to do when they are effectively opposed. They call for the rule of law and free speech until they gain a degree of control using those positions to gain power. When in control or they start to lose ground, they call for censorship, followed by intimidation and violence. We need to focus on the radical leftists as they rule the Democrat show. That is why so many Democrats turned from free speech to censorship. They are followers and follow the left. They are attached to the party rather than principle.
Look at all the leftist governments, and the pattern is clear. In the end, their leaders become genocidal to get or remain in power.
I do not believe they can intimidate Professor Turley, but he should remain vigilant. This country needs people who are leaders, follow the rule of law and advocate free speech. I wish for the Professor’s safety and well-being.
S. Meyer,
Well said and I agree.
Evil exists. Despite having the US Constitution and the creation of a government system of checks and balances, arguably one of the best governments the world has ever known, the Left have been intent on destroying it since the 1960s. Russia became USSR by Marxists, and China became Marxist and still is. In the XX Century alone, both nations, run by atheists who believed in nothing but raw power and brute force in service to evil, killed over 80 million people.
Joseph Stalin still does not get the attention he deserves in characterizing the evil he committed. The NYT still hasnt been taken to task for their fawning coverage, by their pulitzer prizer winner Walter Duranty, of Stalin’s atrocities. Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden gutted US jobs and world famous “Made in the USA” brands by elevating Marxist China as a source of goods and services. It is astonishing that world famous stores founded in America collapsed all because of granting China as our supply chain provider, e.g. Sears Roebuck, General Electric, Whirlpool, etc
IMO, Professor Turley is in grave danger just like the Catholic SCOTUS Justices were and still are. That this blog has been ransacked and pillaged by the Media Matters / DNC trolls, as they lie hourly about the authors of the posts, is proof positive that Turley has been targeted. Now swatted. All predictable.
Marxists will not stopped until decimated just like Hamas in Gaza. Marxists will not give up until thoroughly defeated, otherwise present day failed Marxist countries like Cuba would be free by now. Cuba never will be until the Marxists in Cuba are approached in the manner Israel is addressing Hamas
The blog comment section is toast. Turley’s articles are more important than ever. The Marxist Media Matters trolls are desperate. As stated they will not give up. ever
Cuba should be a cautionary tale to our present situation in America. Are Americans paying attention?
Few even know where Cuba is located.
Study. Read. Research. Be vigilant. The enemy was never the immigrant. The enemy has always been within our borders in those who denounce the US Constitution and the rule of law.
Estovir,
Well said and spot on.