high brain-rooms

 

Michael Cohen

------------------ [excerpt from Revenge, by Michael Cohen] ----------------

        Let me tell you exactly who the real liar is here.  Allen Weisselberg lied to SDNY prosecutors about the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels and they then used that testimony to charge me and granted him immunity.

        Don't take my word for it - a CNN story reported that the Feds had indeed given Weisselberg immunity, but "came to suspect he had lied to them" about how the company reimbursed me.

        Like the old Ginsu knife commercial would say - but wait there's more.

        I had no idea I was so powerful.  After all, it was the Trump Organization; a small boutique family company with too much clout and not enough common sense run by one man - Donald Trump - not Michael Cohen or anyone else who worked there.  

Everything, and I mean everything, was the responsibility of, and all actions were conducted at the direction of, Donald Trump, for his benefit.  You cannot separate the man from the company any more than you can split yourself in half.  

That's the essence of what I told Congress and many prosecutors.  Now, if you think that in some way I overstated my importance, then you are welcome to your opinion.  But give me this:  1) It is a fact that Donald Trump rarely, if ever, does anything for anyone but himself.  2) Donald Trump will do anything to protect his own ass so he can continue following rule number one.

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---------------------- [excerpt from Fear And Loathing:  On The Campaign Trail '72, by Hunter Thompson] -------------------

        In other words, the weight of the the evidence filtering down from the high brain-rooms of both the New York Times and the Washington Post seems to say we're all fucked.  Muskie is a bonehead who steals his best lines from old Nixon speeches. 

 McGovern is doomed because everybody who knows him has so much respect for the man that they can't bring themselves to degrade the poor bastard by making him run for President . . . John Lindsay is a dunce, Gene McCarthy is crazy, Humphrey is doomed and useless, Jackson should have stayed in bed . . . and, well, that just about wraps up the trip, right?

        Not entirely, but I feel The Fear coming on...

        As for politics, I think Art Buchwald said it all last month in his "Fan letter to Nixon."

        "I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team."

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{Thompson - Copyright 1973. Warner Books.

Cohen - Copyright 2022.  Melville House Publishing.}

Art Buchwald

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