Trump: Cohen only became a 'rat' after FBI 'broke into' office

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY BRETT SAMUELS - 12/16/18 10:32 AM EST

President Trump on Sunday blamed the FBI's search of the office of his former attorney, Michael Cohen, for causing his longtime associate to turn against him.

The president questioned why the FBI did not "break into" the offices of the Democratic National Committee or his 2016 campaign opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Link to tweet

The FBI in April raided Cohen's home, office and hotel room, seizing troves of documents and computer files. The search warrants for the raids came in part based on a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller's office.

Cohen last week was sentenced to three years in prison for multiple federal crimes he pleaded guilty to months after the raids, including bank fraud, tax fraud and campaign finance law violations he said he committed at Trump's direction when he paid two women to keep quiet about alleged affairs with the president.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/421586-trump-cohen-only-became-a-rat-after-illegal-search-of-office

[JDC]

1. The delicious smell of fear

[Bengus81]

60. Trump's scared out of his mind........

His usual nonsense Twitter rantings are now just total insanity.

[PSPS]

2. So presidential!

[MFGsunny]

3. When Agent Orange stinks in the morning

KICK

[Xipe Totec]

31. The Pestilent of the United States. nt

[dalton99a]

4. Trump's Sunday sermon to the cult

Bad FBI. Very Bad FBI.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[C_U_L8R]

5. Only crooks have rats

Just saying, Donald

[erronis]

35. Great point - needs to be accepted by his accolytes/enablers.

[Moostache]

6. You can tell a lot about Trump's upbringing here...

Most of us that have siblings learn VERY EARLY that the "what about Mary? She did WORSE things..." defense does NOT work well and only gets Mary to be angry at you too!

[DemKittyNC]

7. "RAT"

Common term used often by mobsters and the Mafia. Of course to be expected when we have a crime-boss and his minions in office.

[dalton99a]

17. It is a criminal gang that has been well protected

[erronis]

38. Great/horrible image. But I bet the DoJ can bring much bigger guns than his henchmen.

Just try US.

Putin behind the chair against a US unified will whither. Still need to protect against the rot from within (R).

[LittleGirl]

49. I had to save that one

to my computer. That's a keeper.

[tanyev]

8. Hey, Dirty Donnie, you know the FBI can read your tweets, right?

[unblock]

9. yeah, that totally sounds like something a completely innocent person would say

[Codeine]

10. Only the guilty can be ratted out, dipshit.

Every other tweet is an admission of guilt with this asshole.

[SergeStorms]

58. And that's precisely...

why Trump isn't already in jail. Whenever the law got close to Little Donnie he "ratted out" other New York denizens of dirt in the real estate and development slime pit. Little Donnie always walked away without a scratch. It takes a rat to know a rat, and Little Donnie has left a trail of betrayals that extends all the way to the White House. He certainly doesn't like it when others "betray" him though.

When the newly-elected New York AG, Letitia James, starts overturning all the rocks Little Donnie has hidden under, there will be so much more new dirt found they could extend Manhattan Island a few more miles southward. And there are hundreds of people just waiting for their chance to "rat out" Trump. "What goes around comes around", the saying goes, and it's finally time for Trump to get his comeuppance. Trump will be a broken and penniless pauper when the State of New York is finished with him.

[PatSeg]

11. Sunday, sweet Sunday

With nothing to do,
But take to the Twitter
While parked on the loo.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

23. LOL!

[erronis]

39. Sanitizing his iPhone must be a chore. Clean wipes out and in.

[PatSeg]

40. Thanks for the visual!

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

43. Explains the high turnover...

Colonoscopy camera cleaners have high turnover also...so it kinda makes sense...whoever is in charge of cleaning his phone... well they can do it only for so long.

[erronis]

45. Not to take this way out there: Can an iPhone be used to do a rectal/colon exam?

Isn't technology great?

I always thought that the goatse image had a resemblance to dump's front/rear end.

[Firestorm49]

12. Why can't this guy just learn to shut the f up?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

29. K&R, tRump thinks his racist base support will believe foolish tweets...

Besides, mostly Teflon Don's defense team want him to "shut the f up." Many of his widely reported tweets implicate the criminal in obstruction of justice along with other high crimes and misdemeanors.

[Hav]

13. You can only become a rat

if there is something illegal to talk about. That's like complaining that someone only started talking about criminal activity after becoming the focus of law enforcement.

[duforsure]

14. And trump is a rat

And has been all along ratting out others to Pecker to use in his magazine with. What trump did by demanding Cohen do or he'd be gone is to break the law for him , then if caught deny, deny, deny, then attack Cohen. Career corrupt criminals do that to others like trump does, so he's just trying to project Cohen is the guilty one , but by turning on him we can easily see who the worst one really is, trump.

[bluestarone]

15. I know we ALL keep saying it, but i gotta say one more time here

WHAT A DUMB FUCK HE IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Snellius]

16. Amazing how good Trump is getting at this.

Used to ask if he could get through a single tweet without lying. Now it's a single word.

[Botany]

18. More crazy shit from Trump: Ken Starr says, "there is no evidence or proof of collusion"

Link to tweet

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. And Ken Starr knows this how?

He seems to have brain damage after all those years of sniffing Bill Clinton's shorts.

[tblue37]

19. IOW, he only came clean because they had all that darned evidence! What's this world

coming to?!

[Corgigal]

20. You were a tiny family owned business,

run with ten people. NYC had your number, which is why you couldn't attempt any new scam buildings in Manattan. Me also thinks you gave plenty on gifts, play tickets to the AG office in NYC.

It could have stayed that way, but No, you believed you could be president. None of your family were either smart enough to talk you out of it, or your narcissism wouldn't allow you to hear or think.

Now, your going to pay for this level of stupidity. Keep trying to blame hanger-ons, but this is all on you.

[KPN]

34. +1

Exactly what I’ve been thinking.

[erronis]

41. Treating the US presidency as a "get out of jail" card. What a loser.

[SCantiGOP]

21. I heard about police breaking into cars

and arresting people for DUI.

[DallasNE]

22. Con/then Became A Rat The First Day He Started Working For Trump

[Hekate]

25. Red Don talks more like a mob boss all the time. nt

[delisen]

54. Sounds like "Teflon Don" John Gotti who talked his way INTO prison.

Egomania has a cost.

[bluestarone]

26. So says the king rat of

PUTIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. Isn't a "rat" a guy who tells the cops about another criminal's crimes?

[Botany]

28. Trump was raised and groomed by mob lawyer Roy Cohen

[JohnnyRingo]

37. Is he a rat or a liar?

I don't think he can be both.

[LiberalLovinLug]

52. Good point!

[Botany]

44. You dirty rat

[ffr]

30. Coming from a guy who wanted to prosecute Comey and Clinton as political enemies

I'd take being called a rat a compliment.

[Rainbow Droid]

32. My jaw dropped quite a few times these past few years...

but this particular bit of flop sweat is really something special. Even to me.

[SWBTATTReg]

33. So says the biggest rat of them all...rump is obviously guilty of something being that he keeps ...

going on and on and on and on and on ... he's hoping that we'll get tired of hearing this crap from him moaning and bitching about this and about that, but to be honest w/ you, I'm loving it, I'm loving seeing and hearing him squirm, toss, and turn constantly. I love being that earworm (as I'm sure of us are).

[JohnnyRingo]

36. He's tweeting to stupid people.

In other word, his base, who will take these talking points to the Dew Drop Inn for discussion this week. Still playing the "broke in" meme for exercising a search warrant.

WhaddaboutHillary just never gets old.

[sinkingfeeling]

42. Remember how Jody Arias won a prison singing contest? Well,

the Orange One can win a prison stand-up comedy contest with ease.

[LakeSuperiorView]

46. Yeah, had he been allowed to destroy all the evidence, they would have nothing on him...

So he wouldn't have turned on MEEEEeeeeee.

[MaryMagdaline]

47. He expected the FBI to treat him better than other criminals

—What’s the DNC? Weren’t they the victims?

[dawn5651]

48. cohen

i would like to know how old the current resident of 1600 penn ave. is. to label someone a rat is extremely juvenile and concerning in a person who has access to the nuclear codes.

[LittleGirl]

50. Every day

He proves that he is

"That Stupid"

sigh

[truthisfreedom]

51. He uses the term like he's a guilty mafia don

rat: one who snitches or squeals after having been pinched

[thegoose]

53. It's called saving his ass

You mobbed-up, grifting orange piece of shit criminal.

[Ferrets are Cool]

55. He does sound more desparate than usual. nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

56. That Mafioso talk again

[no_hypocrisy]

57. Begging the question that Trump was breaking the law.

Irrelevant that Michael Cohen was a rat or when he became a rat.

[flibbitygiblets]

59. So much to unpack in this tweet. But the best part is calling Cohen a "RAT"

He's essentially admitting it's all true.

If someone accused me of doing something illegal, I would call them a lot of things, but a "rat" wouldn't even cross my mind. Unless I was 100% guilty...

[7wo7rees]

61. Who's a rat?

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