As scandal breaks all around the corrupt, highly-vulnerable ex-president, his own former personal attorney and self-described “fixer” Michael Cohen sat down for an all-encompassing interview with CNN’s Jim Acosta today, where they covered the recent Trump Organization CFO, Allen Weisselberg’s guilty plea deal with the Manhattan DA, the top-secret documents discovered at the ex-president’s Mar-a-Lago resort during the recent FBI search warrant raid, and Cohen’s personal apparent prediction on how Donald Trump will ultimately be taken down.
On the topic of the recent bombshell Weisselberg plea, in which the former longtime CFO agreed to testify against the former president’s company but not Trump himself, Cohen said there are certain important questions that prosecutors should be asking Weisselberg to determine who was the driving force behind Allen’s illegal actions.
“Every year, the personal financial statements increased, increased. Every year you had to file certain documents. Allen, you didn’t make these decisions. You didn’t have the authority, even as the CFO, to do anything without Donald Trump’s approval, plain and simple.”
When it came to the topic of the raid at Donald’s Palm Beach estate that he now calls home, Cohen reminded viewers that while Trump is using Mar-a-Lago as his “home,” the compound is nothing more than a ritzy country club at the end of the day, meaning it’s about as unsecure a location as you can imagine.
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“You may remember not too long ago, there was a Chinese dissent running around with a thumb drive and a bunch of other illegal things that they ended up taking her off the premise,” Cohen explained. “It’s an unsecured location.”
It’s the same concern that multiple national security analysts have been pointing out since the news broke that Trump had stolen classified, top-secret documents and relocated them to his Mar-a-Lago resort.
“I think he was going to use it as leverage,” Cohen went on to theorize as to why Donald Trump stole the materials and documents in the first place. “There’s no other reason. Again, I could understand the love letters [from Kim Jong Un.] I could understand one day he wants — someone is there whom he thinks is impressive and he wants to impress that person, so he’ll pull out a letter from the Queen or pull out a letter from [Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan or from [Vladimir] Putin or Kim Jong-un like the love letters he kept talking about for months on months. Ok, he’ll show those, oh, look what this person said about me. I’m really smart, really handsome, really rich. That’s what he’d use those for.”
The larger question according to Cohen, of course, was why Donald Trump stole highly-classified, federally-protected, and clearly top-secret documents.
“Think about what Donald does,” Cohen explained. “Donald turns around and says, No. 1, I don’t have any more. We gave you the documents and we signed an affidavit, there are no more. Then, all of a sudden, of course, FBI raids. Now the documents are in possession of the government. So, instead, now he declassified everything. He’s followed no protocol in terms of declassifying anything. And then, of course, he’s allowed to have it, and then you have Rudy Giuliani and his other sycophantic fools, these acolytes that sit there and whatever it is that Donald Trump says, these people just repeat.”
Trump’s responses and excuses regarding the FBI raid and the existence of the documents at his compound have grown more and more unhinged and erratic in the aftermath of the search. Most recently, the ex-president publicly claimed that he would release the Mar-a-Lago security camera footage of the raid to the American public. But Cohen called Donald’s bluff on that promise.
“If that footage, Jim, was beneficial to him, it would have already been released,” Trump’s old personal attorney said. “What he’s doing right now, he’s a greasy grifter. What he’s doing is fundraising off of it. My understanding is he’s already raised several millions of dollars. That’s what this is all about. This isn’t about anything other than fundraising and people have to remember, if they read the fine print, 90 percent of all money that goes into Donald Trump’s super PAC or his account, he has full discretion over. You’re basically handing him 90 cents of every dollar you send in for him to do whatever he wants. It’s not political. It’s all about himself.”
At one point in the interview, Acosta touched on what we’ve all been thinking — it seems that Donald Trump somehow has 9,000 lives, and no matter how heinous his crimes, he will always manage to skirt justice and accountability in the end. But Cohen said the number of charges that Trump could be slammed with are numerous.
“I think ultimately, what’s happened now is time has gone on in and these investigations have advanced, and the information, the truth has come out, and the truth is never good for Donald Trump,” Cohen theorized. “And in this specific case, yeah, he’s had 9,000 lives. But at the end of the day, you have all of these people who have been brought in who provided testimony. You have documentary evidence like the evidence I provided to the House Oversight Committee, that implicates Donald Trump in a multitude of illegal or I should say improper actions, that he should be brought to court on. One of the biggest problems we have is they’re afraid. I don’t understand why. Now that’s past.”
The former Trump fixer specifically cited the ongoing case against Trump in Fulton County, GA, where Donald’s allies are being hounded by the county attorney Fani Willis, as she investigates Donald’s demands for GA officials to “find 11,780 votes” that would help him overturn the election.
Ultimately, Cohen had this to say about it all, “The case going forward with New York Attorney General Tish James. You have the D.A. in Washington. There’s a multitude of litigation that’s come against this man. I also don’t understand why we’re so fixated on getting him for everything. You don’t have to do that. Let’s get him on the simple stuff — the stuff we already know which is tax evasion, misrepresentation to banks, lying on personal financial statements, like what they did to Al Capone. You don’t have to get him on X, Y, Z. You don’t have to get him on that to get him where he belongs.”
See the wide-ranging interview here:
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