Michael Cohen, President Trump’s longtime fixer, former personal attorney and confidant, pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying to Congress about the Russia investigation in a new deal with special counsel Robert Mueller.
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He appeared in federal court in Manhattan Thursday, where he entered a guilty plea for false statements to Congress in a letter last year about his contacts with Russians during the presidential campaign.Comment -
According to court documents, Cohen admitted that he made the misstatements about the “Moscow Project” – the Trump Organization’s efforts to “pursue a branded property in Moscow” in an August 2017 letter to the House and Senate intelligence committees, which were conducting inquiries into alleged collusion and Russian interference.Comment -
collusion and Russian interference.
In court, Cohen admitted that he made the false statements “to be consistent with Individual 1’s political messaging and to be loyal to Individual 1,” Cohen told the judge. Individual 1 was believed to be Trump, based on the description in court documents.
The crime carries up to a 5-year prison sentence and potential $200,000 fine, but sentencing guidelines in the plea deal ranged from zero to six months. He was released without bail.Comment -
In a Thursday statement, Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, called it “hardly coincidental” that Mueller made a dramatic legal move “just as the President is leaving for a meeting with world leaders,” adding that the chief Russia investigator “did the very same thing as the President was leaving for a world summit in Helsinki.”
Giuliani was referring to Mueller’s indictment of 12 Russian military officials for 2016 email hacks just days before Trump met with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Finland this past summer, casting a pall over the Putin meeting and forcing Trump to confront pointed questions about the Russian’s culpability.
Similarly, when Trump touches down here late Thursday, he will undoubtedly be met with sharp questions about his former lawyer Michael Cohen’s guilty plea for lying to Congress about an unsuccessful plan to build a luxury tower in Moscow.Comment -
Mueller's Department of politicized injustice
PR indictments of 13 Russians. Where are the trials? A joke.
Rosenstein said that there's no allegation of votes being affected by Russians...Comment -
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you listen to a guy that made a career out of saying send all drug users to jail until he got busted using drugs. lol .it is getting closer and closer til you and the dog pack have a melt down.Comment -
You tards say that once a week for the past two years.Originally posted by chico2663Comment -
Why ask questions, he will lie anyway.Originally posted by chico2663Comment -
roy why do you keep calling me a trumptard? Graduated from better school, had a higher act and have higher i.q. Just took the test couple yrs ago and after stoke have 117.Originally posted by RoyBaconComment -
Originally posted by rkelly110
muellers has all the emails. How he busted cohen. Not sure if he will lay it out in 2 weeks when he goes over cohens help. But could be the beginning of the end. He doesn't want to meet putin because this shit is coming out.Comment -
Shouldn't you be suspending someone for talking shit about one of your sponsors?Originally posted by RoyBaconComment -
Because you and the other tards have been saying the walls are closing in, it's over, the beginning of the end with every single move on Flynn, Carter Page, Jr, Jarrod, Manafort, Cohen, Papdapolous and a dozen others.Originally posted by chico2663
It gets old! If you look at the 700 days Trump has been in office I'll bet one of you tards has said it's all over about 300 times.Comment -
well i'm not liberal. Just waiting to get my party back and for you FAKE republicans to be thrown out. As far as something happening. Rome wasn't built in a night. Your cryptos didn't grow in a night. All good things take time. Roy i just read an article that said that the stock market may be down for the year. Here is hoping to your boy not allowing that to happen.Originally posted by RoyBaconComment -
Cohen is the flavor of the week for Libtard Nation . Remember when one of the tards who has been wrong about everything so far was talking about how important Manafort was because he was the campaign manager and he would know as much as anybody about collusion ?Originally posted by RoyBacon
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Dude, I love ya but you ain't no Republican you supported Beto the socialist for gawd sake!!!Originally posted by chico2663
I think the stock market is fine. It's up 45% since Trump was elected so valuations are high. As you know with $51 crude the energy section of the market is weighing down the averages. Plus, bonds are fetching a safe 6% so a lot of competition for cash.Comment -
no i bet beto. i hate the steelers but if i think i can make a buck off them i will. Besides i hate the carpetbagger named ted cruz. He isn't texan. Just like the bush family isn't texan. Although jebs kids and w kids are. But the parents aren't. You were born on a military base so my mom corrected me and said you were texan but he sure isn'tOriginally posted by RoyBaconComment -
the new e.t. is killing me. Should of saved my sun.Originally posted by RoyBaconComment -
ET has been veryyy disappointing. Gone down nearly daily since announcing the ETP merger. $22 to $14. I've been buying all the way down.Originally posted by chico2663
The dividend now 9% is safe. In fact, I think they will increase it in 2020. But that fugger is highly correlated to the price of crude.Comment
