Michael Cohen’s last stand grows even stranger

| 9:16 am EDT July 8, 2018
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So what the heck was all that back there? Michael Cohen gave a television interview strongly hinting that he was going to do right by his family and cut a plea deal against Donald Trump. Then he deleted Trump’s name from his Twitter bio. Then he announced on LinkedIn that he was no longer working for the Trump Organization. Then, in one of the more impressive troll moves we’ve seen in some time, Cohen hired a prominent Hillary Clinton defender as his new attorney. Now comes the truly odd part.

Michael Cohen intentionally threw such a metric ton of shade in Donald Trump’s direction within a span of just a few days, we half expected him to begin posting photos of himself giving the finger to Trump-branded buildings. But now, over the past three days, he’s gone entirely silent. No interviews. No editing of his social media bios. No tweets at all. Considering what came directly before it, the sudden silence speaks loudly in its own right. There may be good reason for that.

On the eve of Cohen’s interview with Good Morning America, Palmer Report pointed out that a television appearance was the very last thing federal prosecutors would want him doing if he was indeed about to flip. They wouldn’t want their potential star witness out there saying things that could screw up the criminal case they’re building against Trump.

Accordingly, if you’re looking for clues that Michael Cohen has begun negotiating a plea deal, his current silence is a far better indicator than his previous dust storm of controversy. The silence doesn’t automatically mean that he’s entered formal negotiations; there are other plausible explanations. But plea deal negotiations would arguably be the most logical explanation for an otherwise very strange sudden silence.