Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen to report for prison on Monday

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/05/michael-cohen-trump-fixer-prison-monday

Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen to report for prison on Monday

The lawyer who paid off porn stars on the president’s behalf is to begin a three-year sentence in upstate New York

Tom McCarthy in New York

Sun 5 May 2019 07.00 BST Last modified on Sun 5 May 2019 07.01 BST

Michael Cohen, the former longtime aide to Donald Trump, is scheduled to report to federal prison on Monday to begin serving a three-year sentence.

Cohen, 53, was sentenced last December for tax evasion, lying to Congress and campaign finance violations. He becomes the third former Trump aide to go to prison in the past 12 months. But that’s not how he sees it.

“How come I’m the only one?” he said in an interview last month with the New Yorker, in one of his few recent public statements. “I didn’t work for the campaign. I worked for him. And how come I’m the one that’s going to prison? I’m not the one that slept with the porn star.”

The one who slept with the porn star, of course, was Trump, according to everyone involved except Trump. But it was Cohen who illegally paid off Stormy Daniels, the actor, on the eve of the 2016 presidential election, and it was Cohen who subsequently lied to Congress and to investigators about a project to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.

Cohen acted, he said at his sentencing, at the direction of Trump, and out of a “blind loyalty” to him. But Trump’s attorney general, William Barr, has declined to pursue charges against the president, calling evidence gathered by special counsel Robert Mueller in his Trump-Russia investigation “not sufficient”.

And so it is Cohen’s life, and not Trump’s, that is about to be upended. Upon reporting to the federal correctional institution in Otisville, New York, about 90 miles north of his home in New York City, Cohen will trade in his favored Isaia suits for a khaki uniform, and say goodbye to his wife and two children, a daughter graduating from college and a son about to enter.
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1. The "Trump Touch"...

Unlike the “Midas Touch” his touch turns everything to shit.

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3. Yep, tRump is like a wet blanket of shit over the country! n/t

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2. One thought and no prayers for the fucker.