White House: AT&T's Cohen payment shows Trump can't be bought

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY BEN KAMISAR - 05/11/18 04:16 PM EDT

The White House pushed back on concerns regarding newly-discovered payments to President Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen from corporations looking to lobby the White House, arguing that the episode proves Trump will not cater to “special interests.”

Cohen has been at the center of a legal storm for weeks since federal agents raided his office following a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller.

This week, reports surfaced that corporate clients including AT&T and Novartis paid Cohen hundreds of thousands of dollars after the 2016 election after he promised access to the new administration.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters Friday that the revelations prove that Trump can't be bought by companies looking to change his mind, pointing to the fact that the Justice Department came out against AT&T's merger with Time Warner. "This further proves the president is not going to be influenced by special interests. This is actually the definition of 'draining the swamp,'" she said, directing other questions to the president's outside counsel.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/387341-white-house-atts-cohen-payment-shows-trump-cant-be-bought

[Auggie]

1. Unbelievable!!!

Such bullshit

[bucolic_frolic]

2. The veneer is so micro-thin

I can see Russia on the other side

[onetexan]

3. WHAT A CROCK!!!

[turbinetree]

4. Hey Sarah, can I call you Sarah.............ever hear of Michael Cohen or Michael Avenatti......

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/05/08/putins-proxies-helped-funnel-millions-gop-campaigns


And yes your full of lying shit all the way up to your eyeballs, just like your boss, the sexual predator..................





November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. I'm overcome by all this integrity. NT

[forgotmylogin]

21. He "can't be bought"...but they'll certainly take the money.

[johnnyrocket]

6. Our country is being run by insane, stupid, evil assholes.

God save us.

[NewJeffCT]

7. LOL

I don't think that word means what they think it means

[Mr. Sparkle]

8. sheldon adelson just gave the gop $30 million for pulling out of the iran deal.

[SunSeeker]

9. ATT did buy him.

Trump went from saying he would block the merger to saying he would stay out of it and leave it to the regulators.

Why the fuck don't White House Correspondents push back when SHS lies like this?

[Botany]

10. Oh really? AT&T Exec Bob Quinn had private dinner w/ Trump FCC Chair after sending Cohen $$

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210604774

[PatrickforO]

11. Wait...this doesn't make sense. ATT and Novartis PAID Cohen hundreds of thousands

after the 2016 election to purchase access.

How in the world does this 'prove' that Trump is 'not going to be influenced by special interests'?

I'd say Huckleberry Sanders has that backwards, wouldn't you?

[Maeve]

17. Yeah...unless she just confirmed that some of the money was funneled on thru

to bigger pockets....

[truthisfreedom]

12. Completely fecal. Things are getting incrementally excremental.

[Vinca]

13. Somehow I bet there are other communications in the hands of the FBI.

There's no way Don didn't get most of that money. If he didn't, why was Cohen scrambling to drum up $130,000?

[pecosbob]

14. Then why do so many appear to be trying (have tried)?

[paleotn]

15. For all practical purposes...

they, meaning Dumpster, Cohen, et al., stole AT&T's money. Pay for play is bad enough, but this was a rip off most likely from the start. Probably safe to assume AT&T wasn't the only one. We may rightly assume they got what they deserved, but that's not my point. Corporate boards are one of the most incestuous parts of the American economy. Thus, it's safe to say this theft(s), for lack of a better term for it, won't go unpunished. Yes, this may be an instance where the enemies of my enemy are my friends, but at this point, I don't care who destroys Dumpster just as long as he and his ilk are destroyed. Disgraced and ground to dust.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

16. There won't be a check from AT&T directly to Trump. That would be stupid. Cohen's not stupid.

Uh, never mind!

[flibbitygiblets]

18. Damn, that's weak. Talk about grasping at straws.

[meadowlander]

19. He'll take the money, he just won't deliver.

So what he lacks in corruption, he makes up for in fraudulence.

[gay texan]

20. Thats got to be the worst attempt at polishing a turd i have ever seen n/t

[Vinca]

22. This is like saying there was no collusion when Don, Jr. and the rest of the gang met with

the Russians in Trump Tower because they didn't receive the dirt that was promised on Hillary.