Michael Cohen announces he’s had enough of Donald Trump’s crap
Donald Trump is the kind of scheming con artist who gets a whole lot of flawed people to do very bad things on his behalf, under the premise that it’s somehow going to benefit them. It never does work out for them in the end. His investors end up defrauded. His underlings end up in jail. So what happens when push comes to shove, and Trump shoves one of his closest advisers under the bus? With Michael Cohen, we’re watching it play out in real time.
Michael Cohen announced through friends this week that he’s pissed at Donald Trump for not paying his legal bills. Then Cohen announced to the Republican National Committee today that he was resigning his position as deputy finance chairman, according to ABC News, specifically citing his objection to Trump’s decision to lock immigrant kids in cages. This is getting uglier by the hour, as Cohen has clearly reached his emotional breaking point.
Cohen has spent the past week telling his family and friends that he’s ready to cut a plea deal against Donald Trump, if the Feds give him a lenient enough deal. Perhaps more importantly, his family and friends have spent the past week telling the likes of ABC and CNN that he’s willing to cut a deal, meaning that he’s already essentially decided to do it, and he’s trying to negotiate his deal through the media.
It’s actually not a terrible strategy. The majority of Americans want Donald Trump gone, meaning that they’re rooting for Michael Cohen to cut a plea deal, and most of them aren’t going to care in the end whether Cohen serves one year in prison or five – so long as he takes Trump down. Will the Feds play ball, or will Cohen end up having to take whatever he can get? We’ll see. At this point Cohen has nothing left to lose by taking his fight against Trump, and his negotiations with the Feds, into public view. But it’s clear that he’s already decided to cut a deal against Trump. He now sees Trump as his biggest enemy, and there’s only one way for him to get revenge.
