Life is crashing down around disgraced former President Donald Trump at an alarming rate in recent weeks, and his former biographer is speaking out with his theory on the state of the scandal-ridden former guy’s mental health as damning indictments close in.
Spoiler alert, the ex-president almost undoubtedly is not handling things well.
This morning, one of Donald Trump’s staunchest allies, Robert Costello, is appearing before the Manhattan grand jury in an attempt to refute and discredit the damning testimony delivered to jurors by Donald’s infamous former personal attorney and self-described “fixer,” Michael Cohen — the very same man who was indicted and jailed on charges related to the same hush money payments that are about to take Donald Trump down.
Renowned former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner appeared on MSNBC with host Ayman Mohyeldin to discuss the development and noted that Cohen was said to have been asked to stand by and remain close so that he can respond to and refute claims made by Costello today.
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“The reporting is that at one point in time, when Michael Cohen was thinking about basically flipping and breaking away from Donald Trump, beginning to tell the truth about his own crimes, the crimes of Donald Trump, Bob Costello was dispatched to try to keep Michael Cohen back into the fold,” Kirschner explained on this morning’s segment. “I’ll tell you, if I were a prosecutor and I got to dig into a guy like Bob Costello in the grand jury, boy, I have a whole lot of fun doing it. People may not know that often prosecutors will ‘grand jury cases exhaustively.’ What I mean by that is they’ll put every witness before the grand jury that they believe has relevant evidence. Not just relevant evidence that might incriminate the target of the investigation and forward the investigation, but potential defense witnesses.”
Kirschner offered up an example of prosecuting a hypothetical murder case, explaining that if he were to learn of a bogus witness in that case, he could then use that information to craft a prosecution blueprint ahead of the trial.
“That’s what I feel like is going on here,” the former federal prosecutor said. “And if I were the prosecutor, I’d welcome Bob Costello with open arms, and I would recall Michael Cohen to set the record straight.”
Also on this morning’s MSNBC segment was former Trump biographer David Cay Johnston, who weighed in on the discussion at this point and explained that all of the prosecutors in the numerous cases against Donald Trump are working diligently to ensure their cases against the ex-president of the United States are “rock solid.” Johnston believes this is why the DOJ’s Special Counsel Jack Smith is on a warpath to question every conceivable, possible witness to the things Donald Trump has done, down to the servers, guests, and staff and Mar-a-Lago that Trump would likely never expect to know his worst secrets.
“Alvin Bragg is doing the same thing,” the former Trump biographer said. “He’s making sure that defense madness was maybe a cockamamie story that comes out of nowhere and muddied the waters. He wants to have a very clear case. I’ve watched cases, particularly when I wrote about it at great length in the L.A. Times, where the failure of police to interview every witness at a car crash where a little boy was killed and it resulted in acquittal. Because witnesses came forward with things that the D.A. wasn’t prepared for.”
Costello has infamously represented the likes of Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon, and legal analyst Lisa Rubin noted that it’s that particular inside knowledge of Trump’s world that could open Donald’s ally up to intense, under-oath questioning about the way Trump’s private world operates.
Kirschner once again weighed in, addressing the criticisms coming out of Trump’s inner circle, claiming that the investigations are politically motivated, stating, “Any violation of the law is worth pursuing, but you know, at its while placed criticism I’ve maintained, for a very long time now, Donald Trump violated federal statutes, he’s a federal problem, and that should involve a federal solution that looks like federal indictments. But let’s face it, the Department of Justice has lagged behind. It’s unfortunate that states are being made to go first.”
But it was Johnston who cited the infamous Access Hollywood tapes, in which Donald Trump could be heard openly bragging about sexually assaulting women because he was famous and felt that he could get away with it. At the time, he noted, Republicans came out in droves to denounce Trump’s disgusting behavior, but almost instantly, the head of the FBI announced an investigation into Hilary Clinton’s emails and, as we’re so familiar with at this point, all was once again forgotten.
“It was a diversion, and Donald is a con artist, he’s a master con artist, he is the most successful con artist in the history of the world,” Johnston explained. “And now, what he’s trying to do in rallying his followers, and trying to rile people is again, a diversion. He’s terrified of being indicted. He’s terrified of being in handcuffs, even if it’s in for five minutes. And having to be fingerprinted and mugshot. That’s the core thing you need to watch here. I don’t know that his support is going to survive these arrests. We’ve already seen that his numbers are dropping in a number of polls despite his claims that the strength is growing every day.”
The former biographer noted that Donald Trump is notorious for making things up as they suit him, so things like polls, support, or money, can never be trusted with him.
Watch the MSNBC panel discussion here:
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