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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOne thing to bear in mind while Republicans roast Cohen for being an untrustworthy scumbag today
is that not only was Cohen Trumps personal fixer, he was also Deputy Finance Chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Until JUNE 2018!!!
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/politics/cohen-resigns-from-rnc/index.html
kentuck
(111,111 posts)And Cohen wasn't the only "liar". They all lied. They are all guilty of deception.
a kennedy
(29,894 posts)Every damn one of em. and then, heard some piece of shit, say on the call in C-SPAN "oh everyone has paid hush money", "even my congressmen". WTF??? Caller saying it's was ok for the president to pay hush money!!! WTF???
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)was a rumpy or Russian troll. There is little difference between the two. However, it would not surprise me if it was a flat earth, science denier (see Neflix documentary).
a kennedy
(29,894 posts)for the hearing and just happened to catch this caller.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)I am hanging out on DU while the media is consumed with the latest news from the eastern white house,
NK, or who asked the best questions. I will wait for reports from DU and the Maddow show later.
Don't those two cretins know how bad it looks on TV when two corpulent men are watching a parade of starving soldiers and citizens?
brandnewday2009
(287 posts)their glorious cult leader
DownriverDem
(6,255 posts)I can't stand southern accents like Meadows. It grates on my ears.
BigmanPigman
(51,747 posts)It seems to me that the majority of the GOP on the committee today have southern accents...
randr
(12,419 posts)that Cohen is claiming to have let down. He is done working for the lsos and they are still in his grip.
Arkansas Granny
(31,556 posts)Botany
(70,734 posts)Cohen's uncle was the owner of the club where the Russian mafia in America would hold meeting @.
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/03/tangled-web-connects-russian-oligarch-money-gop-campaigns
either from the oligarchs
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/the-nra-spent-dollar30-million-to-elect-trump-was-it-russian-money
or Russian money that was washed through the NRA ... which went to Trump & GOP Senators
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/the-nra-spent-dollar30-million-to-elect-trump-was-it-russian-money
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The Trump-Russia story is so vast it crosses 25+ disciplinesso many areas of expertise *no analyst* could be expert in even *half* the key areas. *Anyone* who pretends they're some sort of "one-stop shopping" for analysis or says they know *everything* about the case is *lying*.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Never forget and never stop working to defeat the GOP at the polls and in the courts.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,515 posts)I suppose the word "best" is subject to context.......
In Trump's context, Bernie Madoff was the best for a while............
zentrum
(9,866 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Needs to be asked point blank if they would be behind getting trump testifying under oath to them in Congress like Cohen has done. trump will refuse , and they will be against him being put before members of Congress to testify too. He'll lie and they know it.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,919 posts)...and has them working in his inner sanctum for a decade or more before deciding that they are "losers".
uponit7771
(90,390 posts)DirtEdonE
(1,220 posts)Cohen was being an untrustworthy scumbag for and at the direction of that untrustworthy scumbag trump.
dhill926
(16,416 posts)Hope this is pointed out today. It serves as a great comeback to the assholes....
Volaris
(10,295 posts)Because he was THEIR Untrustworthy Scumbag. They're mad at him for being a DISLOYAL Untrustworthy Scumbag lol.
Oh well. If you're in the business of Fucking Rats, there's a good chance that eventually, you'll screw up and fuck the wrong one.
The Senate Majority is about to have a very bad day, methinks.
True Blue American
(18,006 posts)Handed to them. Motion tabled and Cummings statement, You did not want them to hear what he has to say!
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)...let's keep this pinned.
cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)Repubes on the committee benefited financially from the Republican National Committee during that time.
That suddenly throws them all into as co-conspirators.
Saviolo
(3,289 posts)Given that the thing he's been convicted of lying about is saying that Trump did nothing wrong.
So... your defense of the President is that his personal lawyer lied to Congress about him doing nothing wrong? Is whatever Rudy Giuliani has spreading?
watoos
(7,142 posts)at the questions that the Democrats are asking?
Are they prepared?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,218 posts)on behalf of Trump. His previous lies to Congress for which he was prosecuted were lies he told to protect Trump.
Zoonart
(11,959 posts)Great quote to keep in mind today when we hear GOP howling about MC being a liar.
"Plots hatched in hell are seldom witnessed by angels."
SergeStorms
(19,208 posts)have not asked one question about the crimes Trump has supposedly committed. All they're interested in is debasing Cohen, and painting him as a no good, rotten liar. They don't care one iota about all the bullshit their "great president" has done. They don't fucking care! If that's not enough to make your blood boil, you have no blood to boil.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,051 posts)AmericanActivist
(1,019 posts)mcar
(42,536 posts)here and there.
librechik
(30,681 posts)In fact every Dem should repeat it before beginning their questions.
IcyPeas
(21,986 posts)Grasswire2
(13,580 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)McKim
(2,412 posts)I loved that Taz evasion and using Public Money to Build His Golf Course were mentioned. Surely the republicans in the audience had done to same thing or benefitted from this. This is normal behavior for them...........and they dont want anyone to get justice for it.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,154 posts)C Moon
(12,236 posts)But I'm sure they hope the rest of the country forgot about it.
Thanks EarlG!
Because I didn't know that.
Chalco
(1,314 posts)is that their repeated attacks on Cohen's character means that they could not dispute the facts.