Face-Off Staring Contest: Cohen Up by Ten Plus Points
Original
story here from the WSJ with this headline:
Cohen Hired IT Firm to Rig Early CNBC,
Drudge Polls to Favor Trump: Behind the scenes, Michael Cohen hired
Red Finch Solutions, then allegedly stiffed it — and his boss
More
from Reuters news, in part: Michael Cohen, Trump’s former
personal lawyer, said he paid a firm to manipulate online polling data “at the direction of and for the sole benefit
of Donald Trump.”
Cohen tweeted: “As for the WSJ
article on poll rigging, what I did was at the direction of and for the sole
benefit of Donald Trump. I truly regret my blind loyalty to a man who doesn’t
deserve it.”
The attempts to influence the
polls ultimately proved largely unsuccessful but does shed a new light on the
tactics of the Trump campaign and Cohen’s role. While campaigning, Trump
frequently referred to his polling numbers to help fuel his candidacy.
Recall that Cohen has been was
sentenced to three years in prison for his role in making illegal hush-money
payments to two women to help Trump’s campaign and then lying to Congress about
a proposed Trump Tower project in Russia in mid-late 2016. Cohen went on to say
that Trump directed him to commit the campaign-finance violations, which Trump
has denied.
More on this same story from USA Today: John Gauger, the owner of Red Finch Solutions and chief
information officer at Liberty University, said Cohen offered him $50,000 to
manipulate two news sites' polls, the WSJ reported, citing a government
document and a person familiar with the matter.
Gauger said Cohen handed
him a Walmart bag loaded with about $12,000 in cash during a 2015 meeting at
Cohen's Trump Organization office. Cohen also threw in a boxing glove he said
was once worn by a Brazilian mixed-martial arts fighter. But Cohen never paid
Gauger the remainder of the promised $50,000, the WSJ also said.
Related from one year ago (December 7, 2018): Here
from TPM a very timely and good reminder of how critically important
the Mueller investigation is and must continue, and at the end of day – the
public has a right to see and read it – no ifs, ands, or buts.
Story extract from TPM: “Michael Cohen
is emerging as a pivotal figure with knowledge of contacts between the
Trump campaign and Russia, a new court filing from special counsel Robert
Mueller suggests.”
Boy, is that all now proving true.
My 2 cents: Cohen
truly deserves jail time, but if he helps bring down Trump and that crooked
family, then a shorter sentence I think is warranted, say 1-year in jail with a
4-year probation period. That seems fair and just to me.
This Trump-Cohen connection is revealing now that Cohen admits how he
was duped and fooled and conned by Trump – that underscores how Trump worked
with and fooled those who voted for him with their blind loyalty that to a
large extent still continues today.
Now the damage of all that conniving is right in our national face.
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