Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! The White House is laughably distancing Trump from Michael Cohen,
and it’s déjà vu all over again
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/04/17/the-white-house-is-laughably-distancing-trump-from-michael-cohen-heres-how-might-it-minimize-other-allies/?utm_term=.7db522ee8f33
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It's a well-worn path: Someone in President Trump's orbit gets in trouble, and the White House bends over backward trying to distance itself from that person — often in ways that strain credulity. Top aides suddenly become interlopers. Foreign policy advisers become “coffee boys.” The crucial months of the 2016 campaign are reduced to an insignificant period of time. We are assured that Trump doesn't even really need aides.
Trump's longtime personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is the latest to be on the receiving end of this treatment. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders suggested Monday that Cohen was just another lawyer. “I believe they've still got some ongoing things, but the president has a large number of attorneys, as you know,” she said. Fellow White House spokesman Hogan Gidley repeated the talking point on CNN on Monday night, saying that Cohen was one of “many” Trump lawyers.
Come on. Trump certainly has a lot of lawyers — especially given his special counsel investigation problem — but Cohen was the only one negotiating hush-money payments with porn stars, appearing on TV as a surrogate, and to whom Trump regularly referred as “my attorney.” Cohen is the guy who has expressed unflinching and complete loyalty to Trump. Cohen isn't just another lawyer. In fact, “lawyer” doesn't begin to describe his closeness to Trump.
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As long as it continues to work, they'll do it that way.
Changes lightbulbs, squeaky doors and whatnot. We barely know the guy!
Cohen's gonna flip flip flip like an Olympic gymnast.
What if he's being stocking up for this big day
