Trump-Cohen judge ruins Donald Trump’s North Korea stunt
Whatever choreographed stunt Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un might have in store for their upcoming farce of a summit in Singapore, Trump is clearly hoping it’ll serve as a distraction from his worsening criminal scandals, which are threatening to finish him off. The last thing Trump needs is his scandals erupting while his stunt with Kim is playing out – but a federal judge just made sure of that.
The special master in the Trump-Cohen case recently ruled that nearly all of the evidence seized from Michael Cohen’s office and residence are admissible in court. Donald Trump’s lawyers then asserted that they had the right to object to the evidence, while keeping the nature of their objections a secret. The judge in the case just ruled that if Trump wants to file objections, he’ll have to make them public.
In light of this new ruling, Donald Trump’s lawyers now have to decide whether to go ahead with the objections, even as Trump is on the other side of the world and trying to focus on his summit amid apparent failing health. So not only are the headlines about the Trump-Cohen ruling threatening to take away from whatever phony positive developments come out of the summit, the ruling may also serve to distract Trump at a time when he’s trying to fend off disaster from all sides.
This ruling also means that federal prosecutors are about to get their hands on records of communications between Michael Cohen and Donald Trump that they’ve both been trying desperately to keep under wraps. That’ll put the Feds that much closer to indicting Cohen, and it sure sounds like they’re about to get their hands on incriminating evidence against Trump as well. So much for the notion of Trump having a good week.
