Fox News Sends Trump Into a Fury Over Michael Cohen

[Judi Lynn]

Tucker Carlson Tonight is a helluva drug

By RYAN BORT

President Trump’s initial response to Michael Cohen’s testimony before Congress on Wednesday was uncharacteristically restrained. This is largely because Trump was in Vietnam, many time zones away from his favorite Fox News programs. He was back in the White House residence on Friday morning, though, his energy laser-focused on Tucker Carlson, who offered a novel angle from which the president could attack his former attorney and fixer. “Wow, just revealed that Michael Cohen wrote a ‘love letter to Trump’ manuscript for a new book that he was pushing,” Trump tweeted. “Written and submitted long after Charlottesville and Helsinki, his phony reasons for going rogue. Book is exact opposite of his fake testimony, which now is a lie!”

“Congress must demand the transcript of Michael Cohen’s new book, given to publishers a short time ago,” he added. “Your heads will spin when you see the lies, misrepresentations and contradictions against his Thursday testimony. Like a different person! He is totally discredited!”

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As Matthew Gertz of Media Matters points out, Trump only wrote that the news of the book was “just revealed” because it was featured on Carlson’s show Thursday night. In reality, it was reported early last year that Cohen was shopping a book called Trump Revolution: From The Tower to The White House, Understanding Donald J. Trump. According a copy of the proposal obtained by the Daily Beast, the book would have chronicled Cohen’s time as the Trumps’ “family fix-it guy.” Cohen reached a publishing deal with an imprint of Hachette Book Group, but it fell apart after it became clear that Cohen was in a small bit of legal trouble.

It’s unclear why Trump believes anything in a manuscript for the book would help him. Cohen has readily admitted that he lied for the president for 10 years and that his livelihood was dependent upon supporting Trump at all costs. Writing a book praising the president’s rise to power would have been entirely consistent with Cohen’s behavior before he was indicted, and uncovering a bunch of laudatory anecdotes about the president is not going to make anything Cohen said about him on Wednesday any less true. Nevertheless…

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[duforsure]

1. After the Geotz threat

It may have angered Cohen greater to go ahead and give them more information instead of intimidating him, and cowering down from someone who means nothing to him. trump will not benefit from the threat, and has only dug his own hole deeper as Cohen plans even more stuff to tell them on trump and his kids now. Geotz will end up in serious trouble before this is all over.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Matt Gaetz

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Trump thinks it makes Cohen look like a liar. News Flash for tRump: Cohen is a REPENTANT liar.

Mr. tRump: When you get to the point of acknowledging you are a liar, perhaps while plea bargaining, you might have a little standing to remark on Cohen's past lies. Not much, but more than zero.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. If his head didn't explode it couldn't be that bad