Michael Cohen saw this coming
The thing about long term predictions is you have to wait awhile to find out whether or not they were correct. In the meantime it gives naysayers an opportunity to insist your prediction was wrong, because it hasn’t happened yet. Here at Palmer Report we’d like to think we have a strong track record with our long term predictions, despite often operating from the political cheap seats. Then there’s Michael Cohen, whose long term predictions related to Donald Trump have largely come from the front row.
When Cohen testified to Congress a couple years ago, he foresaw that Trump would end up in criminal trouble for bank fraud, wire fraud, insurance fraud, inflation and deflation of asset valuations, and so on. He also correctly called the suspicious nature of Trump’s Central Park assets, and – perhaps most crucially at this point – the importance of Allen Weisselberg in any criminal probe into Trump. And Cohen predicted that Trump would use violence to try to avoid leaving office.
So when Cohen makes predictions about what’s coming next with regard to Trump, whether it’s in his book Disloyal or on his podcast or on Twitter, we listen. After all, he’s in position to know. He provided the evidence and testimony that got the New York criminal probe into Trump off the ground. He’s since met with prosecutors more than ten times, as they’ve continued to put together the case. He’s likely to be a key witness at Trump’s criminal trial (strangely, despite the New York Attorney General’s public acknowledgement of Cohen’s help, Judge William H. Pauley III is still refusing to give Cohen any leniency on his own prison sentence, which he’s still serving out under house arrest).
When the news broke last night about the Manhattan DA empaneling a grand jury for indictments, here’s what Michael Cohen tweeted: “I am not surprised by this at all and have been steadfast in saying the wheels of justice turn slowly but they nevertheless turn. No one is above the law!!!”
In other words, the guy who spent the past two years correctly predicting what was coming, and who is now playing a key role in the criminal justice process against Trump, fully expects Trump to go down for his crimes. Sounds right to us.
