Cohen 'testifies under oath that Donald Trump directed him to commit a crime

Donald Trump directed his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to commit a crime, Cohen's lawyer Lanny Davis said Tuesday.

The statement came hours after Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and other federal crimes.

Cohen's plea came at the same time a jury in Virginia convicted former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on eight counts of fraud and other charges. The president, meanwhile, was headed to West Virginia for a campaign rally on what has become one of the most consequential and perhaps catastrophic days of his presidency.
However, Cohen said "a candidate" for federal office directed him to make illicit payments to two women meant to influence the 2016 elections.

"If those payments were a crime for Michael Cohen, then why wouldn't they be a crime for Donald Trump?" Davis said in a statement. In addition to being Cohen's lawyer, Davis served in the White House under President Bill Clinton.


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I couldn't care less
about crimes or
Russian involvement

All I care about is intelligence

stupidity is my pet peeve

trump is one of the
most embarrassing
idiots I've ever seen

Yup Donald Trump might be fined over this, maybe even a few thousand dollars… and then carry on business.

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Pence was picked by Manafort.

LOL @ fined a few thousand dollars FOR COMMITTING A FEDERAL OFFENSE

hint: trump can barely read

The reality is precedence has been set during the Obama administration, in his case the punishment was a 375k fine. The american legal system is built on precedence of-course.

This. I wonder what he promised Manafort to get the nod.

RE: precedence

oddly enough, one of the words Trump can't spell.

it's in the video I just posted

by the way, Cohen plead guilty to the same charges, which are federal offenses.

if it was punishable by a fine, he would've never pleaded guilty in a plea bargain.

AS SOON AS TRUMP IS GONE, The GOP, The DNC, Iran, China, Russia, North Korea, and many other U.S. enemies are all going to pray on us during our moment of weakness.

The Democratic Socialists are going to have international support, internal support, financial support, and news support.

Global Socialism! No escape. No one in the world will be allowed to be self sufficient without working an extra 30% to pay the state money.

You all need to oppose Socialism with your extra free time or else you're not going to have any free time anymore.

Both parents are going to have to work to pay all of the taxes and increased costs. Relationships/children are going to be a luxury commodity.

One again, you have all been warned. People have been warning Americans about this for 50 year.

Good luck!

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Russian troll bot!

Obama's fines were for campaign reporting violations. In Trump's case, these are criminal charges for willfully causing an unlawful corporate contribution and making an excessive campaign contribution.

HINT :
this isn't going to end
in an impeachment or
criminal charges for trump

but it WILL one day
eventually result in
the public's knowledge
that he's a lying, stupid,
bumbling, idiotic moron

and that day has already occurred

even trump supporters are quietly
moving the goalposts, modifying
their rhetoric

AGAIN : I find nothing interesting about politics, having no interested the impeachment topic, Russian involvement, criminal charges, etc etc etc

In fact, that's some of the most boring shit I've ever heard in my life, and I'm sick and tired of watching people continue to circle jerk each other over those stupid topics.

HOWEVER, the thing that I indeed AM interested in is exactly how fucking STUPID he is.

Ah yes, the weekly Drumph is binished thread.

To Impeach Trump is not the same as defeating Trump.

You're right. The Left is going to see him broken. Discredited, and his family will all start dying off mysteriously.

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* having no INTEREST IN*

Speech to text typo

- - - - Trump can barely read

He can barely spell on a 4th grade level….. When he gets critiqued for misspelling, he points a finger of blame at Kellyanne Conway, claiming that he only creates a small amount of the tweets himself, (lol the misspelled ones) and has the audacity to claim 'he's too busy taking care of the nation's business to tweet all the time'….

But he's not too busy to sit around dictating the tweets, which negates the entire statement.

Is facial expressions clearly demonstrate a man with a very low IQ

You guys are NOT stupid
I'm not being facetious. I think you gentlemen are actually highly intelligent. That's why it amazes me how so many of you can actually idolize a man with such a low IQ.

When I look at Donald Trump, I see a caveman. I see a complete moron. he's not even smart enough to be insane, because to be insane you must first be a 'genius'. He doesn't qualify… He's simply stupid. He's a moron. He's an idiot. He's a primal monkey brain fool.

I can't imagine you guys actually looking at him and thinking, "yeah, now THERE'S someone I look up to!"

How many other double-digit IQ morons do you look up to?

How many other idiots do you idolize?

We all spend our days in here insulting stupid people, but for some reason a certain amount of you seem to overlook the fact that Trump is one of the stupidest people in the public eye.

For some reason, you're willing to overlook this fact and pretend that he's actually 'cool'….

COOL :
That's the exact opposite of Trump.
There's nothing 'cool' about him.
He has no charisma.
He's not slick or smart or clever or charismatic… He's uncool as shit!

When I think of people who are 'cool', people that I would like to hang out with because they're 'cool', he's the LAST person I would ever have on my list….

I would never want to hang out with him

Of course he's not 'finished'….

That's not the way things work

Anybody who thinks things work that simply is inexperienced and has no footing in reality

He's not finished at all…..

He's not going to be impeached.
He's not going to be charged criminally (at least not while he's still in office)

Nothing like that is going to happen

But what WILL happen already HAS

He's going to go down in the history books as one of the most ineffective, stupid, questionable, weird and creepy Presidents (or events) in American history

He's going to remain in office, and people who think he's cool are going to continue thinking he's cool, while people who hate him are going to continue to hate him…

But he's going to go down in history as one of the stupidest people to ever accidentally become president.

get those 2nd amendments rights oiled

If Trump is as stupid as you say, and he can make it as a reality celebrity, a NEW YORK city businessman, husband of models, and he has many successful children, then I can make it in life too.

Where has being a smug leftists who wants to take everyone's guns and money at expensive gun point gotten you?

What will it get you? Welfare that keeps you trapped in poverty?

Free education that costed the tax Payers 3 times as much as it should, and it only gets 50-60% of graduates into jobs instead of 90%….?

Perhaps you just want werstern civization to collapse because your parents birthed you into this world and provided you with ZERO advantages. Meanwhile, blaming you for not being successful after starting at ZERO.

It takes many generations to get ahead, and you leftists fucks just want to confiscate all wealth and force all people to start at ZERO.

FUCKING Newton wouldn't have paved the way for modern physics if he had to start at 0…. Farmers don't work hard for 30 years and then go to university….

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The republicans are looking right now for a 2020 candidate.

Things are going to heat up for Trump from now on without their support

Trump will smash these hacks! It's all just a sideshow for the dolts! Obama was fined $375k for his finance improprieties & we didn't hear a word on his 1.9 million misstep!

Trump is good at gauging the stupidity of the avg person

Like PT Barnum

He's not stupid,
He's crude(for a rich person), and no genius, but I bet he's at least slightly above avg intelligence
And he knows people
Andy is doing his usual trolling when he says he's a moron.

So, you believe in stereotypes about rich people?

You never listened to a damn word your professors told you, did you?

There are people who are rich from every walk of life. Intelligence and wealth are NOT accurate gauges of morality or competence.

Well, I scored in the 'very superior' range of The Weschler Scale, (I doubt you've ever heard of it before)

But more importantly, I'M ACTUALLY COOL AS SHIT.

by the way, Trump's a TERRIBLE businessman, a low IQ ape who had his money given to him by his father, the 'real housewives of atlanta' are 'reality' tv stars, (along with the cast of 'chicago black ink') his wives are hideous former prostitutes, (the only one who wasn't was Marla Maples, who openly admits she found him physically repugnant) the only other women he seems to get are also prostitutes and porn actresses, his children are morons

Any questions?

No… He's stupid, alright

Holly shit user, we also never heard a word about how he got the Nobel peace prize for nuclear proliferation the week before he signed a 1 trillion dollar nuclear spending bill.

We're obviously just Obama hating Racists, right?

Think about it anons, who has the ability to control the media like that?

The Jews? The same people who are looked at by the media with a magnifying glass?

Or, the Socialists, the political faction that knows no race, class, or national border.

Socialists have been trying to conquer the world for their corporate slaver master for over 100 years. America would have been taken 50 years ago, but the international bankers underestimated the power of our stupidity.

We, the american people, choose to stupidly believe in the American dream. We will continue to believe in freedom and the goodness in people's hearts till the very end!

If he's so good at gauging the intelligence of other people, explain why he keeps insulting their intelligence every time he opens up his stupid mouth

He lacks self-awareness worse than anybody I've ever seen

It is like an abusive boyfriend who keeps a girl around for years before throwing her out onto the streets compared to a "nice guy" who gets dumped every few weeks.

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I'm not going to start being confrontational with you, in fact I enjoy a level headed conversation with you, so…..

I want to tell you something that actually happened it to me just a few days ago….

I was downtown taking care of some business, and there was an OLD BLACK WOMAN in line at the bank ahead of me, who was talking to her husband.

I happened to overhear part of their conversation, and it turns out that they voted for Trump (as unlikely as that seems)

And they were talking about some of the tweets Donald Trump makes, and how they were really starting to question their decision to vote for him.

I interrupted and put in my two cents worth, telling them that I thought 'trump might be one of the stupidest people I've ever seen'…

In her defense, this elderly black woman was very well-spoken and polite, and in true fashion, she try to to minimize her critique of trump, trying to focus on the positive parts, telling me she believes "everybody has good in them and it's important to try to find the good in each person"….

Then, she and her husband both said, "Trump is vulgar, and those crazy Tweets he makes are embarrassing!"

… When I heard her say the word 'embarrassing', of course it triggered me into a response because that's my single complaint with Trump, how embarrassed I am by him, because I really don't care about politics anymore.

I told her, "he makes me embarrassed to be a human being."

They both laughed, and said, "we thought he would make things better, but it turns out he's undignified, and he makes us all look stupid."

MY POINT :
when NIGGERS (who actually voted for him) tell you how 'stupid and embarrassing' he is, it speaks volumes…..

That is after two years of media bashing.
Thousands of professionals are spending their careers trying to make Trump look like a Crazy Vulgar person.

Of course you can make ANYBODY look like a stupid piece of shit.

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What a fucking nothingburger.

you're assuming anybody has to
'MAKE HIM APPEAR' what he is

(news flash: he's ALWAYS been dumb)

If you assume that I am so stupid, that I wasn't already fully aware of Donald Trump, and how much I hated him, since the 1980s, you would be mistaken.

And he's been doing a splendid job of it ever since he first became a public figure decades ago………

I used to be young
I used to be politically inspired

And then I grew up

SEX, RELIGION AND POLITICS

The three topics that no matter how much you discuss them, nobody ever changes anything or has a meeting of the minds….

Futility exemplified

How do we KNOW for a fact that Democrats are liars?

The same Democrat ass holes who call Trump vulgar also avidly advocate this:

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How to tell someone is gullible :

they believe in 'democrat' vs 'republican'

that's a shell game.

that's how they keep us distracted, while the Dept of Defense proceeds with their hidden agendas

w r o n g

the knot

since ancient times, the technique used to control the masses has been to create the facade of oppression

Us against them, black against white, capitalist vs communist, this against that, Democrat against Republican, etc etc etc

It works perfectly

You are naive my user friend.
I used to support the third party.
It can't win with the Media monopoly opposing it.

Americans ONLY get 2 choices.
Both choices demand 18-25% of the GDP taking at gun point from the citizens.

Both sides are corrupt.
Most of the things that both sides will do are EXACTLY the same.

Both the Republican system, and the Democrat system opposed Trump.

All of that being laid out there for you to think about, what you are not taking into consideration is that Democrats are a faster path to Socialism. Your general republican supporter will not vote for a Democratic Socialist. Your typical Democrat LOVES democratic socialism.

Even a kid in an elementary school talent show, doing his little 'magic act' onstage, knows about misdirection.

Without distraction and misdirection, there's no way to pull the bouquet of flowers out of the hidden compartment in his jacket.

While they keep us focused on this 'democrat' vs 'republican' nonsense, they manage to keep us from focusing on what's really happening, where we are really headed…..

and we are NOT headed in a good direction.

this journey didn't start with trump, or obama, or bush, or clinton, etc etc etc

there are dark days ahead, and we have all been distracted, focused on nonsense, while we've allowed the process to continue.

it's bleak

How so? Are you a holocaust denier?
Germany was the aggressor in the war, and they did kill at least 1,000,000 Jews. Close enough. Who gives a fuck how many millions of people were killed? Germany executed the anti-socials. People like the people who browse the chans today.

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Q: what part of 'im in NO party' sounded like I'm a '3rd party' idiot?

"They"

Democrats support them.
Republicans 'try' to oppose them.
The Republican leadership gets sold out.
Game over. "They" win.

That doesn't mean that the Republicans are a bunch of retards for supporting the correct side and then getting duped.

It is just like the Socialists who got tricked by Communists. The socialists are not Crazy, Stupid, or Evil. They have just been misguided by Crazy, Stupid, and/or Evil people.

Then you don't vote at all?
Brilliant. Let the Socialists Vote all of the money out of your bank account.

There is misdirection at play here motivating right wigners not to vote, and leftist to vote.

After 2016 low voter turn out, the "Progressives" (Red Commy-Socialists) are going to peer pressure their friends and family to all vote in 2020. Problem solved.

Dude, I'M JEWISH

of course I don't deny the Holocaust

Nor do I care about it. I couldn't care less about them dying.

And here's a peek into reality:

people who browse chans don't even constitute .0001% of society

don't fool yourself into thinking 'this' refects the real world

(whispers in your ear)

"psst! electoral college"

That is EXACTLY why Pence is VP.
He is the left's worst nightmare.

Fuck the perverted democrats and their communist agenda….

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Can anyone confirm this?

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Jesus Christ jonny boy. Stop spamming the tread. You aren't even responding to anything, you're just repeating yourself 100 times. Go back to the prison riot thread.

WW3 soon friends.

Rensburg was right.

Why the fuck is Johny boy?

If Russia keeps paying.
I keep talking shit about socialism.

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Pence literally owes his position to Manafort's efforts.

Repeating myself is what I have been doing since I was a kid, because when you believe something, it doesn't change

Of course I'm not going to start changing my fucking opinions

And I can honestly say I've never seen a more repetitive group of people than chan users

I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but you guys have been talking about the same fucking thing 24/7 ever since you first came here…..

He's going to have to fight Obama for that title.

If you talk about bio-chemistry a lot, you're going to mention oxygen many times a day.

Just because you mention Oxygen repeatedly as you're talking about various elements biochemistry, doesn't mean that you're repeating yourself at all.

RE: not responding to anything

Untrue…. In fact, I normally don't respond, at least not in a linear structured fashion… I normally just shitpost and try to change the subject and talk about abstract shit just to make everything muddy….

I believe that I have actually 'responded linearly' today more than I ever have before

How many times do you change your opinion in any given conversation?

How many times a day do you stop thinking the way you always think, and start giving to the perspective of a completely different person?

Since I have made it very clear that I don't have a political viewpoint, by design, and my only opinions regarding Donald Trump revolve around 'him as a person', and my opinions are going to reflect my observations about his character and personality…..

Of course there's not going to be any variation

So you are not sure what to believe or, you just don't believe anything at all.

There is such thing as Fact and Logic.
In Socialist, there is no fact or logic.
Only dogmatic doctrine.

In case you haven't noticed, I'm not somebody who bites my tongue very often….

I've always said whatever the fuck I feel like saying, WHENEVER I feel like saying it….

That being said…..

AGAIN: looking at Donald Trump, his face, his facial expressions, his body language, is actual physical presence…. It makes me embarrassed to be in the same species as him….

It makes me embarrassed to call myself a human being

Anonymously, you. Distinguishable individual, anonymously who we are supposed to recognize.

Oh I remember you, "low I.Q. face guy"

You could say "Mild Autism"
Although, you also think that Trump is a diabolical genius who is an expert at manipulation and misdirection.

There is no scientific correlation between people with stupid looking faces and stupid people….

Really, people can't even tell if a baby is theirs or not. People who look for similarities between themselves and their baby, statistically, make the same presumptions about baby's that aren't actually theirs.

I'm simply somebody who doesn't believe in labels, because those are other people's descriptions of other people's Concepts….

I'm certainly never going to jump on any bandwagon and become part of some trend….

Forget political labels, forget terminologies like Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, right-wing or left-wing, or even in between for that matter….

(I'm definitely not a Libertarian or an independent either)

You can call me whatever label you want, but by doing so you will be using a template thought process developed by somebody else and expressing yourself in terminologies that were also developed by somebody else….

I simply believe in minding your own business, doing the right thing, trying to help people whenever possible, and enjoying your life….

I'm a big fan of nostalgia, and even though I am aware that most of the symbolic imagery of 'days gone by' are idealized at best and probably mythological to be more honest, I still believe in the old fashion concepts of America, back in the days that we now perceive as 'when we used to be great'….

In real life I am extremely courteous and overly polite

I hold doors open for little old ladies and I help people fix their flat tires and I always have something nice to say to lift their spirits….

I actually try to emulate the classic 'gee, swell' ideals of the past, when life was more innocent and Americans were more respectful….

But I couldn't give any less of a fuck about politics right now… It's become so boring and repetitive, and it's like watching an ocean full of people Jack each other off, but nobody ever even reaches an orgasm

He believes the R's have been supporting Trump. The delusions are real.

Everybody who's important knows exactly who I am

You must have lived your entire life sitting in that stinky little chair in front of your computer….

You need to get out more…..

You were wrong on every single point you just made…..

And obviously you don't have children

Go suck a cock shareblue.

LET ME PUT IT THIS WAY :

(I'm not just talking about image boards, but real life in general)

I've never seen anybody's political opinions change a goddamn fucking thing

what's going to happen is what's going to happen…….

and all the postulation and theorizing on Earth won't change it.

wait and see

Yea, Hillary is head of a pizza-pedo joint

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Oswald changed a few things with a bullet

some arabs did with a hijacked airplane

It really does make me wonder about their end game for Trump. Let us just say he does have to resign at the very least. Do they think Trump will keep all of the secrets that came with being president? If I were a betting man I would bet every bit of Trump controversy is fabricated to keep him in the news to keep his base riled up and ready to blindly vote R for the next 20 years. They will use it like the Holocaust. "Remember when they attacked Trump for eight years?" I am not sure if they have not thought this through or if they have planned well in to the next couple of decades.

I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't let trump have real access to the important intelligence.

I really wouldn't

RE: ThinkTanked contingency planning

I believe he was part of a plan to fester anger and divisiveness, to fuel anger

It would almost be too easy to assume the end game for this anger and rage was planned out to result in some kind of nuclear war or something like that… That almost seems too easy

So I'm not exactly sure what I think the endgame is going to be, where they are headed with this shit

Lol! Nothing has fuelled divisiveness and anger like the modern left in all it's entirety. Trump was nothing but a backlash. Either Trump is a free radical and not supported by most Republicans or it's a lol conspiracy. Lefty faggot conspiracy theories are always the most hilarious, they directly contradict empirical reality and serve as a crutch for their delusions exclusively.

did Trump use campaign funds or out of his pocket to pay the whores?
out of his pocket is nobodies business but
Allegedly, at the direction of Trump, and in coordination with campaign officials in order to protect the campaign, Cohen paid the women out of a shell company, and submitted the payment to the Trump Company as a campaign expense, along with other campaign expenses. The company “grossed up” the campaign expenses as if this was taxable income to Cohen (it wasn’t) and had Cohen falsely recharacterize the campaign expenses as a monthly retainer payments (they weren’t), and then reimbursed him over time, out of the “Trust.”

The question isn’t so much whether a crime was committed, it is more a question how many crimes were committed.

tp;dr

too political*

It really does make me wonder about their end game for Trump. Let us just say he does have to resign at the very least. Do they think Trump will keep all of the secrets that came with being president? If I were a betting man I would bet every bit of Trump controversy is fabricated to keep him in the news to keep his base riled up and ready to blindly vote R for the next 20 years. They will use it like the Holocaust. "Remember when they attacked Trump for eight years?" I am not sure if they have not thought this through or if they have planned well in to the next couple of decades.
Well Cohen admits to the crime but claims he was just following orders. I Wonder how that claim will work out for a jew?

on Oct. 27, 2016, Cohen transferred about $130,000 from Essential Consultants to the adult film actress’ lawyer.

On a form that he used to complete the transfer, Cohen “falsely indicated” that the purpose of the money was “retainer,” the Justice Department said.

“Cohen caused and made the payments described herein in order to influence the 2016 presidential election,” said the department’s release.

The Justice Department went on to say that he would seek reimbursement for expenses relating to the election, presenting to the Trump campaign a bank statement from Essential Consultants that “reflected the $130,000 payment, plus a $35 wire fee” and added $50,000 for “tech services.”

If Cohen has proof that Trump okayed the $130k + $50k to be payed off as a campaign expense…crime commited

Nice job shill

If you think it's about Trump you're retarded, this is about a fundamental enmity of interests. The people who voted for Trump regardless of what happens aren' t going to vote Democrat now that the party had shown it's hand.

This isn't and never was about Trump to those who voted for him it was about subverting the interests of the neoliberal left political class and their Marxist leaning zombie base.

No, that's your image board alt-right take on it

The moral majority, once they see Trump for the whoring traitorous scum he is ,will be leading the Marxist leaning zombie base with the torches.

Stay here, you don't belong in the real world, fool

'retainer' would be an accurate description, actually

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That's coming from Michael Cohen, who until late June served as Deputy Finance Chair of the Republican National Committee. The taint goes a lot deeper than just the Trump campaign.

Lol confirmed for delusional shill.

for me, the entertaining part has been knowing that Mueller's team has been slowly turning the screws on the Brian Injured Orangutan in the White House.

And now that those screws are becoming a tighter and tighter squeeze, it's funny to watch a delusional moron forced to face reality, while pretending he's nonchalant…..

what an ape !!

It's far too late to get rid of what Trump's done. Even in 2020 if Warren wins; which she won't, Trump will have opened up a wound caused by kikery and retarded leftists leftism is only caused by severe brain damage which has been proven

If you thought 2016 was a wild ride

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So it is nothing…