Donald Trump’s attorney’s attorney may now need an attorney
Okay that’s it, I give up. I’ve been trying to hang in there as long as I could with the increasingly ludicrous official story being floated by Donald Trump, his attorney Michael Cohen, and his attorney’s attorney David Schwartz when it comes to Stormy Daniels. But with this latest development, the whole babbling bubble of buffoonery has collapsed under its own weight. I have no idea what these three guys are trying do here. I do, however, now wonder if Trump’s attorney’s attorney may need an attorney of his own.
It’s been established that Michael Cohen paid $130,000 of his own money (from a home equity loan) to Stormy Daniels in order to keep her quiet about her affair with Donald Trump just before the election. Was Cohen maliciously trying (and failing) to circumvent campaign finance laws? Was he merely being naive? We still don’t know. But now the whole thing has gotten even stranger, and less believable.
Cohen’s attorney Schwartz now claims that Trump didn’t even know Cohen made this payment to Daniels. If this is true, then… wow. It raises questions about why, at a late date in the election cycle when everyone thought he was going to lose anyway, Cohen went to such desperate lengths to try to prevent the Daniels story from coming out. If it wasn’t about losing the election, why was the Daniels affair such a fundamental threat to the Trump empire that Cohen was willing to risk losing his house to try to make it go away? But what if Cohen’s attorney’s claim is false?
Let’s hypothetically say it ends up being proven in the end that Donald Trump did know that Michael Cohen paid off Stormy Daniels. In that case, it would mean that either Cohen lied to his attorney, or his attorney is knowingly lying to the public. There are circumstances in which lying to the public, in an attempt at throwing off federal investigators, can be viewed as obstruction of justice. Would this be one those scenarios? I don’t know. But Robert Mueller does. He’s already indicted one attorney in the Trump-Russia scandal. Does Trump’s attorney’s attorney now need an attorney?
