PIERS RIPS APART MICHAEL THE RAT

Michael ‘Sammy the Bullshitter’ Cohen is a lying, sniveling, self-serving rat who STILL can’t tell the truth

By Piers Morgan

Daily Mail
February 28, 2019

Serial liar Michael Cohen had come to Congress to finally tell the truth.

Donald Trump’s former lawyer and ‘Fixer’, who is about to start a prison sentence for amongst other things, lying, and who had previously brazenly lied to the same Congress, was ready to stop lying.

Cohen’s bottom lip trembled as he solemnly declared: ‘I am here under oath to correct the record, to answer the Committee’s questions truthfully, and to offer the American people what I know about President Trump.’

As for those who questioned his credibility, given the sheer volume of lies he has previously told, he insisted: ‘I have lied, but I am not a liar.’

Ironically, this too was a lie.

If you lie, as one of the Committee members later explained, then self-evidently, you’re a liar.

But Cohen was emphatic: what we were about to hear was the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

And for the next seven hours, he did his very best to nail Trump down into a political coffin. He branded him a ‘racist’, a ‘conman’ and a ‘cheat’ who only ran for office ‘on a platform of hate and intolerance’ to enhance his personal brand, not to make America great again.

In a withering personal character assessment, Cohen said of the President: ‘He is capable of behaving kindly, but he is not kind. He is capable of committing acts of generosity, but he is not generous. He is capable of being loyal, but he is fundamentally disloyal.’

It was a savage takedown, and Cohen clearly relished his moment in the global media spotlight.

He repeatedly turned on the tears; he spoke again and again of his family, of his loss, of his fears for prison life.

Several times, he even evoked the memory of father of surviving the Holocaust ‘thanks to the compassion and selfless acts of others’ to explain why he, Michael, himself now always instinctively helped those in need.

‘As many people that know me best would say, I am the person they would call at 3am if they needed help.’

All of this was very carefully orchestrated and designed to make us feel sorry for him. Cohen, he was keen for us to know, is a massively misunderstood guy; someone who did bad things but is not actually bad.

A man whose only real crime was trying too hard to help people like Donald Trump at great personal risk to himself.

I found myself laughing out loud at Cohen’s painfully insincere performance, not least because his own lawyer Lanny Davis was sitting right next to him looking like the cat that got every dollop of cream.

Davis, of course, is best known for being one of the closest confidants and advisors to the Clintons.

He took this gig for free, Cohen revealed.

No shit, Sherlock!

Davis – who I know well and respect as a brilliant political operator - would have paid to do it, such is his intense dislike of Trump, keenness to exact revenge for Hillary, and love of media attention.

But there was just one big problem with Cohen’s testimony, and it was perfectly highlighted when he was posed a very simple question.

‘How long did you work in the White House?’ asked Republican rottweiler Jim Jordan.

‘I never worked in the White House,’ replied Cohen.

‘That’s the point isn’t it, Mr Cohen?’ sneered Jordan.

‘No, sir.’

‘Yes it is.’

‘You wanted to work in the White House, ‘

‘No sir.’

‘You just didn’t get brought to the dance.’

‘I was extremely proud to be personal attorney to the President of the United States of America. I did not want to go to the White House.’

The moment he said those words, Twitter exploded – led by many people closest to President Trump.

‘Michael was lobbying EVERYONE to be Chief of Staff,’ tweeted Eric Trump. It was the biggest joke around the office. Did he just perjure himself again?’

His brother Donald Jr agreed: ‘Hahahaha, Michael Cohen begged to work at the White House and everyone knows it.’ He added: ‘It really was the biggest joke of the entire transition. The beginning of his bitterness when he realized that was never going to happen. #Delusional.’

Now, you might expect Trump’s sons to spring to his defence and brand Cohen a liar – again.

What would be far less predictable is that CNN, Trump’s least favourite news organisation, did the same.

During a panel debate about Cohen’s testimony, CNN’s top political correspondent Dana Bash said: ‘The one potential problem that I thought Michael Cohen has is when he was asked if he wanted a job in the White House and he said no. Our reporting….all of us have been told by people in and around the process at the time he very much wanted a job at the White House.’

‘Very much,’ agreed CNN anchor Jake Tapper.

Tapper then played the clip of Cohen’s claim ‘because a lot of us raised our eyebrows because we knew it to not to be true.’

Afterwards, he added: ‘The issue is that one sentence ‘I did not want to go to the White House. All of our reporting suggests that’s not true.’

Later in his testimony, Cohen doubled down and again said ‘I did not want to go to the White House’ and insisted he had told President Trump he wanted to continue working for him as an outside personal attorney.

Yet CNN reported Cohen wanted a job at the White House but was edged out by Trump’s family, and was named personal attorney to mollify him.

CNN said he had been particularly keen to be Chief of Staff and was ‘crushed’ when the job went to Reince Preibus instead.

I think it’s safe to assume CNN, that despises Trump as much as he despises them, would not be reporting all this as a favour to the President.

They reported it because it’s true.

And we know it’s true because Cohen himself admitted as much in a CNN interview with Chris Cuomo in 2016.

Asked if he expected to work with Trump when he moved to the White House, Cohen replied: 'Oh, I certainly hope so’, adding he would ‘a hundred per cent’ accept a position.

So Cohen lied yesterday again, about something relatively innocuous.

And if he lied about that, then what else did he lie about?

Cohen says Trump sent him signed personal checks to pay off porn stars, but was it a retainer for general services?

Cohen says he overheard Roger Stone tell Trump that Julian Assange had told him in a phone call that Wikileaks was about to dump their damaging Hillary emails. But both Stone and Assange have categorically denied any such conversation ever happened.

Cohen says he heard Trump spew racist abuse as they travelled through a black neighbourhood in Chicago. But there is no tape (Cohen taped a lot of things) and no witness.

Cohen says Trump was aware of the infamous Tower meeting between members of his campaign and a Russian lawyer. But the detail of how Trump was supposedly imparted this news is distinctly inconclusive.

In the end, most of what Cohen revealed is stuff that has yet to be independently verified or corroborated, and some of it cannot be as only Cohen and Trump were there.

If it’s all true, then President Trump is undeniably facing serious charges and may well have broken several laws.

But as I watched Cohen’s pathetically manipulative, sniveling and disingenuous performance yesterday, I found it very hard to believe almost anything he was saying.

‘Over the past two years, I have been smeared as “a rat” by the President of the United States,’ Cohen bleated. ‘The truth is much different.’

Is it, Michael?

A 'rat' is a word mob bosses use for those who betray them.

The famous mafia rat of all was Salvatore ‘Sammy the Bull’ Gravano whose shocking plea deal testimony helped bring down John Gotti, head of the Gambino crime family.

Gravano, a mass murderer involved in the killing of at least 19 people, squealed like a pig to save his own skin.

But at least everyone believed him.

In Michael Cohen’s case, he also made a plea deal in return for squealing like a pig about Trump.

But how much of his testimony can we really trust?

If he is still able to so obviously lie about a simple thing like wanting a job at the White House, how can we believe anything else he says?

I’d be more inclined to believe Pinocchio than Michael ‘Sammy the Bullshitter’ Cohen.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Just goes to show that the only difference between a lawyer and a liar is the spelling. Michael the Rat is merely a bigger liar than most lawyers.