| Re:Cohen droht 4 Jahre Haft für Trumps Auftragsarbeiten |  |
Die sind halt auch alle so unfassbar dumm. Selbst wenn sie schon die Chance haben, auszupacken, tun sie es nicht:
Cohen did try to lie to Mueller at first
Now, because this is Michael Cohen we’re talking about, he didn’t fess up all at once. In an August 7, 2018, meeting with Mueller’s office — about two weeks before Cohen pleaded guilty to the New York charges — he actually tried to lie to the special counsel, Mueller claims.
Mueller says that in that first meeting (which was set up “at Cohen’s request”), Cohen did provide some useful information at first. But when the special counsel’s team turned to the topic of the Trump Tower Moscow project, Cohen repeated much of the false story he had told Congress the year before. (Cohen had told Congress that the talks ended quickly, that he’d only briefed Trump rarely on them, and that he hadn’t heard back from a Russian government official he’d reached out to. None of these claims were true.)
Mueller’s team says that Cohen “explained” his initial lies to them were “an effort not to contradict his congressional testimony” — something that could, and eventually did, expose him to further charges.
But Cohen struck his plea deal with federal prosecutors in New York on August 21. Then, in September, he returned for a second meeting with Mueller’s office, and began to tell the fuller story of Trump Tower Moscow.
And Mueller seems to be happy with Cohen’s cooperation since then. “Starting with his second meeting,” the special counsel writes, “the defendant has accepted responsibility not only for his false statements concerning the Moscow Project, but also his broader efforts through public statements and testimony before Congress to minimize his role in, and what he knew about, contacts between the Company and Russian interests during the course of the campaign.”
[https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/7/18131246/mueller-michael-cohen-sentencing-memo-russia]
Aber wahrscheinlich war Cohen so oder so verdammt. Trump dürfte über seine Geheimnisse voll im Bilde gewesen sein, d.h. wenn er Trump verrät kommen State Charges auf ihn zu, wenn er schweigt bestenfalls die Aussicht auf eine Begnadigung - und auch erst zum Ende von Trumps Amtszeit. Das wird übrigens noch ein Spaß. Wie Trump in seinen letzten Tagen all seinen Buddies und Familienangehörigen Absolution erteilt.