So has Danny Deutsch been lying about Cohen wanting to be on the right side of history and seeing...

[Grasswire2]

....himself as a new John Dean?

I watched Deutsch push that framing for an hour last week. Deutsch is reportedly a friend of Cohen and had spent time with him on the very day he made that claim.

[JI7]

1. Cohen is too stupid to be John Dean . Cohen is more like a Kato Kaelin type character

but then so are so many others.

[Grasswire2]

2. yeah

What I'm wondering is what it says about Deutsch as a commenter on MSNBC. He's spinning for Cohen. Baldly.

[Sugarcoated]

3. I think his friendship with Cohen is clouding his judgment.

I find Deutsch's assessments of crooked Don to ring very true.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Rev AL Sharpton speaks with Cohen and today he told Nicole Wallace

that Cohen expected to get a couple of years in jail.

[OnDoutside]

5. I think we may find that Cohen has given Mueller all that is related to

Trump, the Trump family, the Trump organisation, and as it relates to the 2016 election. What he may not have given is anything related to mob activities, and that's what he's taking the hit on. So in the terms Donnie is talking, he is probably correct.

[DeminPennswoods]

8. Yeah, agree with this

The SDNY and Mueller investigations are two seperate things.

Cohen apparently helped Mueller's investigators quite a bit as in their sentencing memo they asked for no additional prison time and if there is, that that time be served concurrently with the sentence related to the SDNY charges.

The SDNY involves mostly Cohen's tax crimes and only touches Trump on the illegal campaign finance charge. Cohen's lawyer worked at SDNY. Presumably they knew what they were doing by not agreeing to a plea deal with that US atty office.

[SoCalDem]

6. Donny Deutsch is just a wannabe-mover-shaker name-dropper

He inserts himself into the drama to feel involved..

[EffieBlack]

10. +1000

[karynnj]

7. More likely he is just wrong in his speculation

It is possible that that may also be Cohen's view of himself.

[manor321]

9. Danny Deutsch is the reality show aspect of this. Just ignore it.

Pay attention to the legal scholars, lawyers, etc.

[ScratchCat]

11. I think if you read between the lines

The stuff that Cohen wouldn't cooperate on was the taxi cab coin bit, which is mafia related. Its not the Russia stuff with Mueller. SDNY charged him in the taxi coin bit and you can be damn sure there were more links involved - unrelated to Trump - that they wanted to follow. I assume crossing his mob buddies wasn't on his "to do" list for 2018.

People are reading something into this that isn't there.

[ecstatic]

12. No, I think Cohen is a con artist with a higher emotional intelligence than

trump. Donny D, at worst, is just one of Cohen's suckers.

[Blue_true]

13. The prosecutors pointed out, Cohen lied to lots of people, family, friends, prosecutors.

Only the latter has the skillset to nail his ass.