Michael Cohen Is A Smart Man And A Lawyer - He Knows What He Has To Do.....

[global1]

and how to conduct himself in this situation.

I keep hearing these MSM talking heads saying he's got to keep his cool.

IN fact - just now one of the talking heads said they need to get through his testimony fast before he combusts. He's not going to combust.

Cohen knows better. He knows what the defense will try and do to him and I'm sure that he has this under control.

He's testified to a Congressional Committee for gods sake.

Why are these talking heads making more of this than is necessary?

He was TSF's right hand man for years. He knows where the skeleton's are hidden. Tr**p threw him under the bus after all the years he lied for him.

Cohen knows what he has to do in his testimony and he will do it - and he will do it under control.

[grumpyduck]

1. "Why are these talking heads making more of this than is necessary?"

For advertising revenue. To keep people talking and coming back for more.

Some of these MSM "pundits" remind me of sports color commentators. They talk just to fill in the space between plays.

[AverageOldGuy]

13. AMEN

Which is why I have cut back on my viewing of CNN and MSNBC to a minimum (never watched Fox and other propaganda) -- I check out the first 5 minutes or so of CNN on top of the hour to get the happenings then I turn it off. On MSNBC, I'm fairly regular with Lawrence O'Donnell and Rachel.

The talking heads just parrot the same old talking points over and over. No different from those on Fox, OANN, etc -- just the message is different, the performance is the same thing.

[Old Okie]

29. Talking Heads

Yes, they are just filler between the blocks of ads. Even the local news is like a shopping channel or infomercial now.

[Wednesdays]

2. He's a lawyer, FFS.

It's not like he's never been in a courtroom before.

[niyad]

3. Sadly, he wasn't too smart when he worked for RAPIST, TRAITOR**.

[OMGWTF]

8. In an interview Cohen said he always wanted to be a mob boss's lawyer.

[Irish_Dem]

4. We have seen Cohen on TV many times, professional and well spoken.

I agree, the hype about him is ridiculous.

Trump is the one who might blow a gasket.

[ananda]

9. Trump WILL blow a gasket!

Count on it.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Either in court or afterwards.

Maybe his minders will have to medicate him so he doesn't end up in jail.

[ananda]

31. I wonder what he's already not taken?

Anything left?

[Irish_Dem]

32. For people like Trump there are always drugs available.

[ananda]

34. I meant, what would be new or different?

And he's already so drug addled, it's unreal.

[Irish_Dem]

35. Yes that WH drug list blew my mind.

He has been on all kinds of uppers and downers.

The only thing left is increasing the dosages and changing up the combinations.

[ananda]

37. I know, and I thought the Kennedy's were bad.

Those drugs gave Jackie cancer.

I think they'll finish Trump off with worsening
dementia.

[Mr. Evil]

5. Corporate media talking heads

must create drama where there is none.

[stopdiggin]

6. I think we should maybe keep the plaudits and laurel wreaths to a minimum

until we see how his testimony really plays out.
Can fully understand being peeved by the talking heads (aren't we all?) - but, there's a whole lot of baggage there with this man too - and if you think the lawyers savaged Stormy on cross .....

[mucifer]

7. MSNBC pundits are saying he has been calm and professional.

[peppertree]

11. Exactly. He's passionate - but has great self-control

Unlike most Republicans - and certainly their Foo-rer.

[Escurumbele]

12. "Why are these talking heads making more of this than is necessary? "...Let me guess, RATINGS???

It is amazing, I don't get it, and like someone posted on a different link, "Why are they giving trump's lawyers ideas"? We do live in a Bizarro World.

[SARose]

14. Color me a pessimist

I keep hearing these MSM talking heads saying he's got to keep his cool.

IN fact - just now one of the talking heads said they need to get through his testimony fast before he combusts. He's not going to combust.

Because they can’t/won’t say who they are really talking about - Trump.

Trump is the only one that has to keep his cool.

Trump is the only one who will combust. His own niece is saying he will go bezerk.

MSM will not address his worsening aphasia, dementia, violent fantasies, lies, etc.

Why does everything have to be a life or death battle between two people? Next thing ya know we’ll have Trump and Biden dressed a gladiators duking it out in the Coliseum with lions and tigers and bears!

And I cannot unsee that!😱🤣

[IcyPeas]

15. (Kind of an aside but) its amazing that trump doesnt use email.

Imagine if there were emails?

How common is it for an executive -- in this day and age -- to not use email?

He never wanted a paper trail. He's been criming for a loooong time.

[former9thward]

23. According to Justice Kagan SC Justices do not use email.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/web/tobjection-the-supreme-court-needs-to-understand-email/

[underpants]

27. If ain't in writing, it didn't happen

I’m not an executive but everything has to be in an email or I’m not doing it. Document everything.

In this case though he didn’t want a record of it and Cohen knew he wasn’t going to get one. Of course, at the time Cohen was in on it so he wouldn’t want a record.

What I’ve found interesting is that Trump never had a Board. No oversight at all. I guess I just never realized that before.

[2naSalit]

16. I would wager that...

Some of the "making more of this than is necessary" is about knocking Cohen down to smelvis' level so that smelvis doesn't "look" so bad. It's just like the issue of smelvis' needing Biden to be impeached and accused of all the things he, himself, has done. The pundits who roll with that line of bull are playing for equivocation.

[BaronChocula]

17. Thanks to the 24hr news repeat cycle

a lot of "news" time is filled with panels of "experts" who may tend to pile onto narratives played up in the media for drama. Just wait until the next unreliable poll comes out and how the panel of experts treat it as gospel.

[happy feet]

18. Trying to make drama

So viewers will watch them😡

[Martin68]

19. I have great hopes for Cohen's testimony. It could put Trump away.

[anamnua]

28. I have mixed feelings re this

A Trump candidacy pretty well guarantees a Dem win in November with down ballot spillover. Not so his replacement by a more conventional Romneyesque alternative.
We need a golden mean:
Enough damage to torpedo him in November but not enough to force him off the ticket.

[Martin68]

33. I believe it's too late for a replacement candidate to catch up with Biden. They would have no credibility as a

"replacement candidate." And there really no one available because Trump used up all the oxygen in the room. I don't believe a Trump candidacy is our only hope. Not even close. Who do you see catching up with Biden in the time we have left?

[NoMoreRepugs]

20. Talking heads are just that - talking heads - they are opinion mongers.

[Boomerproud]

21. Everything about t is either "historic" or "unprecedented".

Yawn!!! He's the most boring celebrity evet.

[former9thward]

22. "He's testified to a Congressional Committee for gods sake."

Yes, and he lied to them. That is one of many reasons he went to prison. If Cohen was a "smart man" he would not have destroyed his life over trying to be too smart and constantly cross the lines of society.

[Kablooie]

24. I think it's interesting that...

Now he says he doesn’t know why he was so enamored with Trump. He said it made him feel important to be so close to Trump but he can’t explain why he, so completely, fell under Trumps spell. He’s been a life long Democrat too.

[Uncle Joe]

25. He's smart to know court tactics and that a person only has so many strikes.

Thanks for the thread global

[Joinfortmill]

26. Yup. Completely agree. I will say this...

Cohen looks stressed. He said on MT a few days ago, he's lost 26 pounds due to the stress. He has every incentive to to stay calm. Weissman said he was excellent on Direct

[JI7]

30. He actually isn't that smart

[Dorian Gray]

36. Cohen

is and was a self interested man who was happy playing Donald Trump's enforcer until it stopped working for him. (When he was threatened with jail time.). Smart? Who cares?

He isn't a hero.

If he tells the truth and it leads to Trump being punished for years of crimes, it's because it benefits Cohen.