Heads begin to roll over Donald Trump’s AT&T bribery scandal
Donald Trump is still maintaining that he did nothing wrong in his AT&T bribery scandal, even as his new attorney Rudy Giuliani has promptly made the whole thing worse by going on television and unraveling the defense that Trump had been trying to use. The scandal has gotten ugly enough that heads have already begun to roll as a result.
Even as the federal criminal investigation into Michael Cohen’s finances continues, the people he conspired with are already paying the price. AT&T paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to Cohen as a consulting free in an attempt at influencing Donald Trump’s decision on its merger with Time Warner. Now AT&T has announced that the move was a “big mistake” on its part, and the company executive who was working with Cohen has been forced to resign. It gets even worse.
We’re already seeing anecdotal evidence across social media of AT&T customers changing their cellphone carriers in protest of the company’s participating in the Trump-Cohen bribery scandal, though it’s not yet clear how large those individuals are in number. We’ll see if this latest move stops the bleeding for AT&T, or if additional company leaders end up being forced out over the scandal.
As Palmer Report has previously spelled out, it’s difficult to imagine that a two hundred billion dollar company like AT&T would decide to bribe the President of the United States, but then limit the size of that bribe to a mere few hundred thousand dollars. So we keep waiting to see if AT&T paid even more money to Cohen, or paid money to additional Trump associates. It turns out Cohen tried and failed to convince Ford Motor Company to bribe him, so this is only going to get uglier.
