The president’s writhing anxiety attacks were on full display following a week of negative news that finally classified him as an unindicted co-conspirator in the crime of felony campaign violations.
At the end of the week of this bombshell news that the president fairly obviously committed a felony, the U.S. House of Representatives held a hearing on…Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Michael Cohen pleads guilty.
Paul Manafort *found* guilty.So, of course, the GOP House Judiciary Committee scheduled a special meeting on, what else: Hillary Clinton's emails#FridayFeeling #TakeItBack #CultureOfCorruptionpic.twitter.com/5PXl5Prdt8
— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) August 24, 2018
Trump and his supporters, particularly his son Donald, Jr., have made much of Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis’s clarification that he had not independently confirmed that Cohen had evidence of the meeting his client witnessed between Trump and Junior about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting. While they’re all crowing that the media got it wrong and the meeting never happened, that’s not exactly what Davis said.
‘At this juncture, I can only say that [Cohen] was present during a discussion with [Donald Trump Jr.] and [Trump].’
In other words, Cohen doesn’t have hard evidence. He didn’t tape the meeting as he did with Trump during the discussion in which Trump directed Cohen to commit a felony by paying off mistresses through a shell company, none of which was reported as campaign finance expenditures. That in no way means that Cohen didn’t witness the conversation. If another witness comes forward, and there have already been several close Trump associates granted immunity, it may be used against Trump in a collusion case.
Of course, Special Counsel Robert Mueller may already have that evidence, and it’s likely that Trump knows this and it’s why he’s so panicked.
Twitter was not having Trump’s little rant. See some of their comments below:
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