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I never directed Michael Cohen to break the law. He was a lawyer and he is supposed to know the law. It is called advice of counsel, and a lawyer has great liability if a mistake is made. That is why they get paid. Despite that many campaign finance lawyers have strongly......
6:17 AM - 13 Dec 2018
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Donald J. Trump
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....stated that I did nothing wrong with respect to campaign finance laws, if they even apply, because this was not campaign finance. Cohen was guilty on many charges unrelated to me, but he plead to two campaign charges which were not criminal and of which he probably was not...
6:25 AM - 13 Dec 2018
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Donald J. Trump
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....guilty even on a civil basis. Those charges were just agreed to by him in order to embarrass the president and get a much reduced prison sentence, which he did-including the fact that his family was temporarily let off the hook. As a lawyer, Michael has great liability to me!
6:39 AM - 13 Dec 2018
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underpants
(182,982 posts)Just saying.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)....from clients....
And it looks like good buddy David Pecker at AMI directed his National Enquirer to make payments on their own too?
WOW!!!
Thou protesteth too much Donny.... the walls are closing in
brush
(53,960 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Jackass
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)I tried to grab them for this post but he had already deleted and re-tweeted them.
C_U_L8R
(45,030 posts)Got something to hide, Donny ?
riversedge
(70,396 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,537 posts)TrumPutin couldn't get it all in his head, but he tried repuking what the Rude Ghoul told him was a good excuse.
Too bad all those lawyers, the judge, FBI agents and Cohen disagree with Dumb Donald's characterization of the plea, guilt, and law.
Stuart G
(38,454 posts)Trump will sing a song,
When he is gone.
It is not sad,
That he is mad.
Time to go.
And it will be so...........
ProfessorGAC
(65,325 posts)That's the kind of language he probably used. That said, notable in it's absence would be the word "legal" before the word "way".
Poor baby is finding his deniability gambit is on thin ice.
Moostache
(9,897 posts)Universal karma, please explode his heart and end the scourge of the age. PLEASE??!!!???
Zoonart
(11,896 posts)kentuck
(111,110 posts)Just give him money. He knew what needed to be done.
No collusion!
MineralMan
(146,343 posts)Trump is not capable of writing such a thing.
Docreed2003
(16,889 posts)It reads like a Rudy statement to me
MineralMan
(146,343 posts)of writing that many words on any subject. I'm not sure about Giuliani, either.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,537 posts)(I should've read the whole thread before speculating about this above).
This looks to me like he was tweeting what somebody tried to tell him is his 'out'. Whether they believed it or not is another question. They may have been trying to stop a tantrum and this was the best they could come up with.
EleanorR
(2,395 posts)Johonny
(20,931 posts)"The President"
Trump would have written me had he wrote it.
PJMcK
(22,061 posts)Trump has often referred to himself in the third person. For example, in the confession interview with Lester Holt, he said, (paraphrasing), "This Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story."
There are many more examples and I've always thought it was odd.
Docreed2003
(16,889 posts)Please let there be tapes of Trump "directing"
Cohen...
Jarqui
(10,131 posts)"In particular, and as Cohen himself has now admitted, with respect to both payments, he acted in coordination with and at the direction of Individual-1." (Trump)
That is now the finding of this court.
Blue Owl
(50,542 posts)BSdetect
(8,999 posts)You hired these "best people" and left them without any instructions?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,367 posts)edhopper
(33,650 posts)If your accountant cheats on your taxes, you are still guilty.
If you didn't know shooting a man in the face on 5th Avenue was a crime, you would still be charged.
Volaris
(10,276 posts)It's gonna be so fuckin awesome when there's tape to the contrary lol!
bullimiami
(13,110 posts)Volaris
(10,276 posts)And then: I didn't know that directing was illegal
And then: directing shouldn't be illegal
And then: this is a witch hunt
And then: he will go to prison.
harumph
(1,917 posts)uponit7771
(90,370 posts)BlueTsunami2018
(3,507 posts)Yeah, you did.