Cohen, Delivering The Goods

MICHAEL COHEN has presented his testimony to the House of Reps, and the information he provided is sufficiently incriminating to President Trump to provide a means by which he might be removed from office, unwillingly. Cohen presented a veritable roadmap for Congress to pursue further investigations, including names, dates, numbers, facts, figures, and documents. The only thing Congress has to do is follow the yellow brick road, and the land of Oz, the much coveted much resisted truth about Trump, his family, and his circle of sycophantic supporters and assistants will be laid bare, at long last. Cohen testified that on no fewer than five hundred occasions during his professional relationship with Trump, Trump instructed Cohen to use intimidation and threats, by whatever means necessary, to scare off adversaries potentially harmful to Trump's plans and schemes. Cohen showed the cancelled checks Trump wrote to him over a one year period, quite recently, disguised as retainer fees, which were actually repayments to Cohen for a one hundred thirty thousand dollar hush money bribe Trump paid one of his mistresses, Stormi Daniels, to keep her quiet during the presidential campaign. Cohen was Trump's go to fix it lawyer for ten years, and he knows Trump quite well. He describes trump as a racist, a con man, and a "cheat". Each of these characterizations have been proven true during the Trump presidency, in Trump's actions, words, and tweets, in plain sight of us all. His racism, con artistry, lies, deceit, and vicious behavior have been on display in front of the American public and the entire world for years. Cohen outlined a wide variety of criminal activities which which he assisted Trump, all of which can be proven, none of which can be refuted. In light of all this, the most fascinating aspect of the testimony was the reaction from the Republican committee members. Cohen said it best: he told the republicans that they are now engaged in doing what he himself did for ten years while working for Trump; protecting Trump. And that is precisely the case. One after another, the Republicans, instead of asking relevant questions or making any attempt to address the material being discussed, engaged in a relentless attack on Cohen's character, as a convicted felon and liar. None of the Republicans, tellingly, offered the slightest shred of evidence to refute anything Cohen said. Their only argument: Cohen has lied in the past, has broken the law, and is a convicted felon, so nothing he says can be believed, nothing he says is true. Quite the opposite is true, in fact. Every human being who has ever lived has lied, repeatedly, and frequently, but that does not preclude the fact that we .who lie, all of us who lie, also tell the truth, often, (see "The Honest Truth About dishonesty: How We lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves", by Daniel Ariely) just as Cohen is now telling the truth, under penalty of further possible prison time beyond his current impending three year sentence. The republicans shamefully, dishonestly accused the Democrats of being out to get Trump, of holding the hearings for no other reason than to get revenge. They (the republican House members) sound like an echo of Trump himself, in their pathetic attempts to keep a ship on which they are passengers from sinking. The ship of Trump will sink anyway, inevitably. Cohen has opened a gash in its hull, and Robert Mueller will soon fire the final shot, coupled with the inevitable House investigations which will commence quite soon. Trump's ship is sinking, and it will be interesting to see how Trump's ardent supporters, his close associates and millions of morally bankrupt sycophants, react. Will they jump overboard and swim for it like rats seeking shore, or will they defiantly go down, and vanish beneath the churning waters of history? Time, as always, will tell.