Michael Cohen Testifies That Trump Tasked Him to ‘Reverse Engineer’ His Assets with His ‘Arbitrarily’ Inflated Number

by Quirkie

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  1. Everything about the emperor having no clothes is true, but it won’t dissuade the cult: the cult is determined to take the nation down with it.

    [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO-GGAGjVzw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO-GGAGjVzw) is a real life insight into their mindset.

  2. > “I was tasked by Mr. Trump to increase the total assets based upon a number that he arbitrarily elected,” Cohen said. “And my responsibility, along with Allen Weisselberg, predominantly, was the reverse-engineer the various asset classes — increase those assets to achieve the number that Mr. Trump asked us.”

    Gee… that sounds a lot like Trump’s “just find me the votes.”

  3. >The ex-fixer said he lied to protect Trump, but he added that others were involved in creating the statement, including Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Alan Garten, and attorney Abbe Lowell.

    Time to go after the crew here – Ivanka and Jared especially should not escape unscathed from their vast criminal behavior.

  4. >Before Cohen took the witness stand, the court heard from Bill Kelly, the general counsel of Trump’s former accounting firm, Mazars. In February 2022, Kelly had signed a letter disavowing a decade’s worth of Trump’s statements of financial condition, **writing that they “should no longer be relied upon.”**

    …which is an weasel-worded way of stating that *it has* ***always*** *been a fetid heap of bullshit.*

  5. Heard an interview with a writer who was part of Donnie’s Friars Club Roast.

    The notes Trump gave back were to always inflate the dollar amounts they talked about

    >Even in a script designed to be self-effacing, Trump couldn’t resist boosting himself. At the conclusion of the rebuttal, in an exaggerated (even by Trumpian standards) riff about how he lives in a “25,000 square-foot penthouse atop my solid-gold space station,” Trump ordered that the square footage be goosed to 50,000. He changed a line that read, “I’m sorry, I must go now and make a million dollars somewhere else,” to a “billion” dollars.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-inside-story-of-donald-trumps-comedy-central-roast-is-everything-you-thought-it-would-be_n_57fbed42e4b0e655eab6c191

  6. I mean, this was pretty obvious from the start, but im glad hes saying it under oath. Trump clearly has a existential crisis about seeming rich and he got all of his minions to lie to banks and stuff to get more money and cheat his taxes

  8. I’m so glad that genuinely remorseful people are allowed to be better and make up for past misdeeds – the world would suck if we all got only so far as our worst decision. This is also why the current prison system sucks and how second-class we treat people who have served their debt to society

  9. I wonder if him and the prosecutor have any agreement in exchange for his testimony. It seems he’s putting himself at quite a bit of risk here by not pleading the 5th otherwise.

  10. I wonder if Trump attending was satisfying for Cohen?

  12. For those with expertise… How damning is this type of testimony from someone like Cohen? Does the trope of “he’s a felon and likes to lie” carry any water? (I think it does matter, but curious as to other thoughts.)

  13. This is like watching a ship full of plague infested rats swimming to shore as the rotting hulk sinks to the bottom taking her captain with her.

  15. You guys, I’m starting to think Donald Trump might not be entirely honest.

  18. Trump is on path of or already has the following-

    -be bankrupted, like literally have to file for it because his net worth is so negative he has no chance of ever getting out. This is after a documented IRS history of having multiple years of literally the largest financial losses of anyone in America.

    -denied from operating businesses in his principal states of operation, meaning no ability to rebuild oneself ever again without pure corruption

    -be a convicted felon on dozens of counts on federal crimes and multiple state crimes, including insurrection and sedition

    -has aligned himself with foreign adversaries who our nation has fought for decades, to the point of being the candidate of their choosing

    -be found guilty in multiple civil suits including grifting millions of people in various fraudulent ways

    -various violations of the lowest bar of morality across all faith traditions, including rape, sexual assault, fetishizing children and incest, etc. including personal admission (flaunting?) in public domain

    -denial of the most basic tenets of science, inclusive of clean air and water, much less germ theory, nutrition, or climate crisis

    -a visible obvious unconscious that has him deny documented (recorded) facts including the size of his inauguration, who his lawyers are, what he said in Helsinki about putin, etc.

    -refusal to engage in any public forum for discussion with any dissenting voice, including verbally asking for mortal penalties for dissenters

    And somehow he has a coin toss of a chance to be president AGAIN. In fact tens of millions actually view him as a 2nd coming of Jesus himself.

    Its really something worth studying. When I was a kid, people talked about how insane people must have been to vote someone like Hitler into power. Well here you go. It’s actually quite a human thing to empower such people – we as a collective have a major (fatal?) flaw around tribalism.

  19. Probably not the right use of “arbitrarily”. “Criminally” would be more appropriate. It wasn’t an arbitrary number, but rather a purposeful inflation, aka fraud.

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