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Michael Cohen Gets 3 Years....
NBC News ^ | 12/12/18 | By Tom Winter, Hannah Rappleye, Jonathan Dienst and Minyvonne Burke

Posted on 12/12/2018 9:20:13 AM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left

An emotional Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, was sentenced Wednesday to 3 years after pleading guilty to nine federal charges stemming from his failure to report millions of dollars in income making secret payments to women who claimed they had affairs with Trump.

One of the charges Cohen pleaded guilty to included a separate charge, stemming from Robert Mueller's probe into Tump's potential collusion with Russia, that he lied to Congress about his dealings with a proposed Trump Tower in Moscow.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: braking; cohen; cohentherat; cryingbaby; dirtydeeds; michaelcohen; mueller; sentenced; trump
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left

That was exactly my point. None of the real facts matter because what’s getting played out is something entirely different.

i.e. “none of that matters on Hard Copy”

It’s not the narrative that anyone is going to hear.


61 posted on 12/12/2018 12:02:40 PM PST by TangledUpInBlue
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To: Lazamataz

Yep, totally agree. What Cohen should have done is tell Mueller to go F himself and Trump probably would have pardoned him. And next, round up all these scumrats and charge them with sedition. Besides Civil war thats probably the only way this nightmare can be fixed, but Republicans do NOTHING!!! Both houses and the WH and for the past 2 years Democrata have been stomping all over us as if they own the place


62 posted on 12/12/2018 12:09:02 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Until Hillary is in jail, equal justice under the law will not exist in the USA)
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To: RoseofTexas

Because Trump keeps putting idiots in the positions that can actually do that.


63 posted on 12/12/2018 12:10:28 PM PST by chuckb87
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To: Lazamataz

“We will use every area of the law to investigate President Trump and his business transactions and that of his family as well,” Letitia James, a Democrat, told NBC News in her first extensive interview since she was elected New York Attorney General last month.


64 posted on 12/12/2018 12:15:46 PM PST by roses of sharon ("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
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To: newfreep

I always gotta go with T-Bone Walker on this one.


65 posted on 12/12/2018 12:19:07 PM PST by VietVet876
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To: TangledUpInBlue; Trump_the_Evil_Left
"... it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."

Cohen, et al are just a skirmish in the battle of Trump, which itself is really only a sideshow of the war against the West. As far as the globalists are concerned, native populations of people who have high expectations about economic circumstances, self government, cultural awareness and possess the means to defend those demands are enemy #1.

Oh how they dream of an entire world comprised of social stratification like Mexico. Nonstop persecutions with media encouragement/support play only a small tactical role. The real game is to get masses of low IQ denizens of the 3rd world moving across borders. Demographic destiny is the globalists' strategic nuclear weapon; everything else is just a distraction.

66 posted on 12/12/2018 12:23:12 PM PST by semantic
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left
his failure to report millions of dollars in income making secret payments to women who claimed they had affairs with Trump.

So, how does one make income just by paying people? Do they mean Trump paid him exclusive funds to pay off people? Like the congressional slush fund to pay off accusers?

67 posted on 12/12/2018 12:31:35 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Rapscallion
Cohen told them that Trump was personally involved in a campaign finance violation. That he ordered the pay-offs to two women to suppress their stories about affairs with Trump — a campaign expense that was improperly not reported — and said he did so "in coordination with and at the direction of" Trump.

They want to get Trump on this, though I think after some thought, they will realize that election fraud is a huge stretch in a House/Senate where members have done far, far worse. But who knows? They will however, take Cohen's GUILTY plea, and push the "unindicted conspirator" angle.

Cohen is an absolute scumbag. Sometimes, people like Trump need people like Cohen to take care of other scumbags. Trumps mistake was letting Cohen into his inner circle. Cohen immediately took advantage. His actions to sell influence (that he didn't have) to pharmaceutical companies, as well as others was a huge betrayal, and once that happened, I figured he would also sell out to Mueller. Sleep with dogs, wake up with fleas...

68 posted on 12/12/2018 12:37:49 PM PST by ETCM
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To: Red Steel

“Cohen pleading guilty to the part that is a non-crime“
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Trump should pardon Cohen for only Count #8, for no other reason than to unearth all these questions about “the crime”


69 posted on 12/12/2018 12:46:01 PM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: piasa

I think the phrase was garbled, word(s) lost.... it should have read something like “failure to reports millions of dollars in income AND making secret payments”

Since the payments to two bimbos were around $400K total, I believe and they had nothing at all to do with Cohen’s tax problems.

Journalism is dead.


70 posted on 12/12/2018 12:47:43 PM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: VietVet876

For me it’s the Allman Brothers - because of the Hammond B3


71 posted on 12/12/2018 12:49:23 PM PST by enumerated
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To: basalt

He’s a rat, just a lowlife Trump had around that he liked, for whatever reason. All of Trump’s life he’s helped people and never asked anything in return. But he despises disloyalty and if I were Cohen I’d be watching my back. Not to be scared of Trump, but the man has friends all over NYC, going back decades. He might be a well known billionaire and now the president, but he has lifelong friends and the vast majority are tough-ass blue-collar workers that I guarantee you are pissed this weasel stabbed their friend in the back.


72 posted on 12/12/2018 1:58:19 PM PST by NKP_Vet ("Man without God descends into madness”)
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left

The rest of the title :

“Michael Cohen gets 3 years, says Trump’s ‘dirty deeds’ led him to ‘choose darkness”

Initially I felt sorry for him, but now that I see he is blaming Trump, I am sorry he didn’t get more.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michael-cohen-gets-3-years-cases-involving-stormy-daniels-lying-n946956


73 posted on 12/12/2018 2:24:40 PM PST by Innovative
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left

36 months in Club Fed with all the trimmings. Not much for a POS traitor.


74 posted on 12/12/2018 2:50:27 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left

Cohen, you chose wrong.

Enjoy your stay.


75 posted on 12/12/2018 2:56:01 PM PST by dforest (Just shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up!)
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To: enumerated

Loves me lots of B3 too but the Allman brothers will always be “Dreams”.


76 posted on 12/12/2018 3:02:08 PM PST by VietVet876
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left
may he get screwed twice as hard in prison as he tried to screw Trump.
77 posted on 12/12/2018 4:25:08 PM PST by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Chode

His cellmates will probably not be too fond of lawyers (since their own lawyers didn't save them from prison), so you'll likely get your wish in spades!

78 posted on 12/12/2018 4:30:18 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: Songcraft

Welllll he’ll be in a minimum security “Club Fed” with white collar criminals, so he probably won’t be in much danger (alas)....


79 posted on 12/12/2018 4:33:19 PM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

He can because this is illegal lawfare. They are threatening and torturing citizens with Federal power.

I neither like nor respect Cohen, but his rights have been trampled - like Flynn, Caputo, Manafort, et al.

First they came for Cohen, and I did not care because I did not like him... (not aimed at you specifically.)


80 posted on 12/12/2018 4:42:32 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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