Experts Agree: Robert Mueller Just Played Donald Trump Like a Fiddle

[DonViejo]

by Colin Kalmbacher | 11:02 am, November 29th, 2018

President Donald Trump‘s longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty on Thursday to making several false statements in front of Congress. During an early morning appearance at a downtown Manhattan courthouse, Cohen admitted to making intentionally false statements about several matters related to Trump’s business dealings. This turn of events suggests that Robert Mueller intentionally leveled a surprise attack against the 45th president of the United States.

Why’s that? It’s all about the timeline here.

President Trump just last week submitted a series of written answers to several questions posed by the special counsel’s office. These questions were strictly related to one prong of Mueller’s wide-ranging inquiry: Russian electoral interference during the 2016 presidential campaign. That is, Trump’s answers about alleged obstruction of justice have yet to be received–and are not expected to be provided in written form for that matter.

Cohen’s plea more or less comes immediately after Mueller’s team took the time to review Trump’s on the record statements–statements made under penalty of perjury. And legal experts say that’s no coincidence.

CNN legal analyst Ross Garber was one of the first to raise the timing issue via Twitter.

“Timing of Cohen plea (right after Trump turned in answers) may be more than coincidental,” he wrote. “Mueller might not have wanted to tip his hand before answers were provided.”

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[thbobby]

1. K&R

[GWC58]

2. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😀👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😃

[Dream Girl]

3. Perjury trap!!!!

[Native]

14. "to the 'best' of my recollection"

ya think that will save him?

[Rorey]

31. He has repeatedly bragged about his great memory.

It's funny to see him backed into a corner. It's even funnier that he helped Mueller back him into that corner.

[Whiskeytide]

33. I think unlikely. You can say "to the best ...

... of my recollection" I don't believe I ever spoke with Boris or Natasha in person.

But It's hard to say "to the best of my recollection I never tried to have business dealings in Russia" when you undertook a massive campaign to license your name there, and then actively took steps to cover it up. There are some things you just can't deny any recollection about - at least not with any credibility.

Especially with trump's big brain and all. Reagan's " Uhh,.. well, ...I uhh, ...heh heh, well..., I just don't, uhhh ... when I, uhhh... now, what was the question again?" defense won't suit the very stable genius very well.

[Blue_true]

40. It's not a trap when a person is lying, it's due diligence. nt

[SHRED]

4. I'm sick of this pResidency

End it!

[Raster]

29. PREACH!

[Hassler]

5. Psst, Donnie: if you want to avoid a perjury trap, don't lie!

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[ProfessorGAC]

6. Yeah, Like That Advice Has Any Chance Of Being Heeded

Lying and breathing are autonomic responses for little PINO.

[DownriverDem]

9. Me too except

I have seen where it would be better to run against trump than pence.

[lagomorph777]

11. Pence is in this up to his eyeballs. He'll go down with Pres. Turd.

[Perseus]

16. Amen

I hope you are right.

[RocRizzo55]

25. Not just Pence

But the whole GOP is up to their eyeballs in this. The Party leadership knew everything that was going on, and many members of the Party took rubles. The rest of them knew about it and said nothing. Therefore the entire party is guilty. I have been saying this for months now.

[Raster]

30. As have I... the Congressional GOP* is virtually awash in Russian* dark money...

...at this point in time, the $64,000 question is NOT "who took Russian* money," but who didn't.

[lagomorph777]

34. +1 Totally. Very visibly obstructing justice.

[FarPoint]

36. Then, if both tRump and pEnce go...

we wil have Madam President, Nancy Pelosi....

[lagomorph777]

37. BINGO!

[RocRizzo55]

41. I thought that Pelosi

has stated that she was not for impeachment, so I would not bet the ranch on that. Nothing says that the current "leaders" could not serve while in jail. Remember when there was a candidate for president who was in jail? No? I guess that you are bit too young to remember that Eugene Debs ran for president and got nearly 900,000 votes. So I guess if someone could run from jail, they could also serve from jail. Not saying that this is right or wrong, just that it is.

[FarPoint]

42. This is what can happen with resignations...

I don't see impeachment happening...

[lagomorph777]

45. It could happen with Fuckin' Hunter in CA.

[OMGWTF]

44. Paul Manafort is the one who wanted Pence

If both of these rat bastard traitors are removed then Nancy Pelosi becomes president.

[bigbrother05]

23. Pence may appear sane, but there's a reason he never entered the primaries

He doesn't have the chops to pull off the long con.

The Donald was born into it and is surrounded by career criminals.

[trixie2]

28. great analyzing

[tparrett62]

27. I think Gerald Ford would disagree

The stink of Trump's misdeeds will cling like dogshit to Pence's heels, even if he somehow escapes going to jail with the Orange fucker. Ford paid the price for Nixon's misdeeds, and Pence will do the same, IF he's lucky enough to still be a player by 2020.

[TxVietVet]

20. That's a habit

the orange-faced shit gibbon can't break.

[Chemisse]

43. I don't think he is capable of telling the truth.

And I expect that to be part of his defense someday.

[Mr. Ected]

7. "I was asked a series of questions"

I answered them all very easily. Very easily.


LOL...and you lied just as easily!

[MyOwnPeace]

8. Read it again!

THIS is from a former solicitor general of the United States and law professor at Georgetown:


"the Mueller probe has now resulted in the guilty conviction of the President’s former top lawyer."


THE PRESIDENT'S LAWYER!!!!!!!

GUILTY!!!!!!!!


ONLY THE BEST!!!

[ScratchCat]

12. When the media mentions Cohen

They need to - every time - note that he has plead guilty for crimes committed on behalf of his client, Donald Trump. It otherwise sounds like he just committed crimes. But they were for the gain of his client, Donald Trump.

[renate]

15. That's a very good point nt

[erronis]

17. Echo that. Cohen may be a snake, but his client hired him to lie/cheat/intimidate.

Every time Cohen is mentioned, his consigliere should be acknowledged.

(I've always wondered how the toad could stiff anyone - maybe Michael has the real balls.)

[Buns_of_Fire]

38. I've always wondered if maybe Cohen wasn't the brains of the outfit all along.

All Rump ever had to do was say "I WANT" and Michael would trot off to figure out how to Make It So. Cohen seems more comfortable behind the scenes, Rumpy requires the spotlight. Rump had the name and the mystique, Cohen had the brains. A symbiotic relationship, if there ever was one.

[FakeNoose]

35. I think they're talking about Rudy Giuliani

This whole "defense compact" was his idea, and he's the one who engineered it. So now they have Rudy on obstruction of justice too, in addition to Cheeto and the whole group. It's going to be one happy family in prison with adjoining cells!

[lagomorph777]

10. Cohen-oscopy. Trump is Manafucked.

Hey Trump's gut! Shut up! You're just bloated and gassy!

[MyOwnPeace]

13. "Cohen-oscopy"

OH MY GAWD!!!!!!!!!!

IQ45 just had one, didn't he?

THAT should be the Oxford Dictionary WORD OF THE YEAR!!!!!!

[erronis]

18. Oh dear. My online spill-chucker just had two words added. Thanks!

[Raster]

32. I sense an oncoming, epic case of dire-ria for the Orange Anus*

[tinrobot]

19. Fiddle? More like a big fat cello.

Womp womp.

[mastermind]

21. I see the fbi just raided tRumps tax attorneys office in Chicago nt

[duforsure]

22. Mueller and his team are letting them

Walk into their own traps now, and expect a lot more to become exposed and they're trapped even more by their own making. This crime family is going down.

[lancelyons]

24. How do you get over the past the both Cohen and Trump are liars?

Mueller would have to have documentation that proves what Trump lied about and what Cohen admitted too.

testimony from Cohen wont do much harm to trump by itself

[bigbrother05]

26. Mueller dropped the Cohen plea right after the Manafort reversal to show who was really played

The whole double agent meme re: Manafort was the GOP congratulating themselves on how the Shitgibbon had played Mueller.

This latest on Cohen is timed to Trump (pun intended) their celebration and ruin the G20 victory lap.

Don't expect to see any open interviews in Argentina and he'll be sitting at the kiddy table if he shows his face at all.

[Kahuna7]

39. What really happened is team manafort provided their lies to trump

so that trumps testimony would line up. However, because manafort and trump's testimony lined up and Mueller knew manafort was lying, trump fell into a perjury trap. Cohen today was just adding insult to injury.