Trump Troubles Growing: Based on More Michael Cohen Lies and Guilty Plea Deals

Man in the middle and two who could bring him down

(Manafort: “Pardon me — I did my part”)

This post has two updates included below - ref: Another Federal raid on Trump allies.

Original post from here:

Reminder for anyone who still believes and trusts Trump this #1 reason to prove he is a skilled, savvy serial liar two examples: His own words in the Lester Holt MSNBC interview on why he fired James Comey from the FBI (May 11, 2017) and then his tweet (May 31, 2018) denying that very same reason for firing Comey as the once again blames the media and “Fake News.” 

The man either has no memory or he lives in constant world of lying – maybe both, but I choose “world of lying.”

Trump’s live TV interview with Lester Holt:

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THE NEW POST FOR TODAY FOLLOWS:

COHEN, TRUMP AND BUILDING DEAL IN MOSCOW (November 29, 2018 from Reuters) – Cohen pleads guilty to more lies:

WASHINGTON — Trump has denied working on a Trump Organization real estate project in Moscow, which his former lawyer Michael Cohen says they had pursued until June 2016 during the presidential campaign.

NOTE: Cohen pleaded guilty today to making false statements to Congress regarding that project, putting fresh pressure on Trump. 

Cohen told the judge he lied about the timing of the negotiations and other details “to be consistent with Trump's political message.

Cohen and prosecutors referred to Trump as “individual one” throughout the proceedings and Cohen said “he lied to be loyal to Individual One.”

Among other lies, Cohen said he told Congress that all discussions about building a Trump Tower in Moscow had ended by January 2016, when they had actually continued until June 2016. He said he also lied about his contacts with Russian officials and lied when he said he never agreed to travel to Russia in connection with the project and never considered asking Trump to travel to support the project.

Prosecutors said in a court complaint that Cohen had misled Congress to give a false impression that the Moscow project had ended before the Iowa caucus and first Republican presidential primary in 2016.  Cohen told the judge he lied about the timing of the negotiations and other details to be consistent with Trump's political message. Cohen and prosecutors referred to Trump as “individual one throughout the proceedings and said he lied to be loyal to Individual One.”

Trump reacted by attacking his former lawyer, calling him a weak person and accusing him of lying about the real estate project to try to obtain a reduced sentence from prosecutors.

Trump told reporters outside the White House he had decided not to build the building in Moscow, although he did not specify when he decided against pursuing the project as Trump continued to try and distance himself from Cohen despite their long relationship.

Cohen testified in August that Trump had directed him to commit a crime by arranging payments to silence two women before the 2016 election who said they had affairs with Trump. The president has denied having affairs with the women.

Related to the above is this part of Cohen's guilty plea:

Cohen said he had tied Trump family members into the Trump Moscow Tower deal, which is all over the news today. This probably expands on who that may have been:

Mueller Eyes Ivanka & Don Jr. on Trump Tower Moscow Deal

Don Jr and Ivanka: Duck!!!

(What duck???)

Critical Points: Who is Michael Cohen? He is an attorney who worked as a lawyer for Trump for 12 years (from 2006 until his termination in May 2018 soon after a federal investigation of him began).

That investigation led Cohen to pleading guilty on August 21, 2018, to eight counts of campaign finance violations, tax fraud, and bank fraud. 

In his statement before the court, Cohen said he violated campaign finance laws “in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office” (meaning Trump), “for the principal purpose of influencing the election for president in 2016 – paying $130,000 hush money to Stormy Daniels about Trump affair).

Cohen also served as a vice-president of the Trump Organization and special counsel to Trump, and he previously served as co-president of Trump Entertainment, and was a board member of the Eric Trump Foundation, a children's health charity (2017 to 2018),

He also was the Deputy Finance Chairman of the RNC. On October 11, 2018, he re-registered as a DEM to “distance myself from the values of the current administration.”

1st Update related to new breaking story from RawStory.com here.

Highlights and headlines: “Federal agents raided the office of an attorney who in the past has handled the Trump Organization’s taxes.”

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that “federal agents showed up unannounced at the City Hall office of Finance Committee Chairman Ed Burke, kicked everyone out, and papered over the windows in the early morning raid.”

Burke runs a law firm, Klafter & Burke, which specializes in property tax appeals. Burke did tax-related work for the Trump Organization for the past twelve years before the two parties severed their business relationship earlier this year.

This past June, Burke announced his breakup with Trump in letters filed last month with the Cook County courts and the Illinois State Property Tax Appeal Board in which he wrote that “[…] irreconcilable differences have led his firm to stop representing Trump’s company and step aside in five current cases that seek refunds of millions of dollars in property taxes the president’s company has paid.”

Law enforcement officials have so far declined to comment on the nature and purpose of the raid on Burke’s office.

2nd Update on the Burke story above. This part from Vox.com. The pressure is mounting on Trump Empire, Inc. the endgame is closer than Trump thinks:

My 2 cents: Trump’s circle is closing in on him – the control he is used to having is slowly crumbling around him. Time is not on Trump's side.

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