Thread by @rmead777

🇺🇸🎙️Cohen Pre-Testimony Talking Points🎙️🇺🇸
Given that the shameless swamp clowns have decided to put on a seditious circus to character assassinate our Commander-in-Chief while he's overseas negotiating peace between nations, I figured we could help him out back in the homeland.

The media want Cohen's testimony to be a 3-week news cycle of baseless accusations & hopeless speculation, ignoring progress being made at home & abroad.
So here's a debunking of Cohen's opening testimony, so you're prepared to destroy the narrative in real-time. Smile & share😉

Roger Stone's text messages already proved that:
1) he did not have contact with Assange
2) he failed to get any info from Wikileaks
3) Wikileaks had already released 20,000 DNC e-mails earlier in July, & publicly stated that there would be more coming

There is nothing illegal about this... and everyone knew that the Trump Organization was still operating as usual (it would be irresponsible and stupid to shut down a global business & lay off thousands off people for the duration of a campaign....)

🏁Checkpoint: No Subornation of Perjury🏁

Did you catch that?

Cohen says "He [Trump] lied about it because he never expected to win the election"

So... Trump never expected to win the election, even though he conspired with Putin to win the election?...🤔 Cohen is clearly an idiot.

No, Cohen - You pleaded guilty to a variety of other unrelated charges, and you actually were NEVER CONVICTED by the court for the two alleged crimes related to Trump

Fun fact - President Trump is currently changing the world, while you're putting on a pre-prison Pinocchio play

Cohen states: "since taking office, he [President Trump] has become the worst version of himself"

So - the current President, who is currently negotiating peace on the Korean Peninsula and whose every move is publicized and scrutinized, is the "worst version" of Donald Trump?

Cohen again states that Trump "never expected to win the general election. The campaign – for him – was always a marketing opportunity."

1) I don't believe Cohen's statement at all
2) If this IS true, then there would be no reason for Donald Trump to conspire with Russia/Putin

🏁Checkpoint: Cohen Lies To Congress Again🏁

"A lot of people have asked me about whether Mr. Trump knew about the
release of the hacked DNC emails ahead of
time. The answer is yes."

SO DID EVERYONE - Wikileaks announced they were going to drop DNC/Clinton e-mails

2 years of Roger Stone's life (e-mails, texts, phone calls, etc..) have been investigated, & there is no record of him speaking w/ Assange, nor did he get any info from Wikileaks.

Side note: Stone calling Trump to say Wikileaks is releasing dirt on Clinton is not even illegal

Cohen is lying about something everyone can disprove... (smart...🙄)
The country has NOT seen Trump "court white supremacists & bigots", though we have seen him DENOUNCE them multiple times. The "shi*hole" comment is old news, repetitive, and not racist.

IF true, this is clearly an inappropriate remark. It sounds like a joke, though still in very bad taste.

That said, if Trump's long-time friend & "fixer"'s BEST evidence of racism is one inappropriate joke & calling crappy countries "shi*holes",.. then I think we'll get over it

If there are accounting issues, talk to the accountants, but at the end of the day "cash is king" - The Trump Foundation gave out more money than it received in donations.

If you're interested in charities & art, the Clinton Foundation & Podesta's art gallery are fascinating...

🏁Checkpoint: The Devaluation of Hush Money🏁
1) The argument that this is a campaign finance violation (for Trump) is tenuous (AT BEST)
2) The penalty would be a fine
3) EVEN IF the campaign disclosed that payment, it would not have been made public until AFTER the election

First: 2008 was the Great Financial Crisis (a rough time for business, especially real estate) so the options were cutting salaries or cutting jobs

Secondly: looks like Trump was looking out for the taxpayers & was amazed by how incompetent the government bureaucracy was (is)

🏁Checkpoint: No Russian Collusion🏁

Cohen alleges that "something clicked in [his] mind", which made him recount that a year earlier Don Jr. walked behind his dad's desk (gasp!) & told Trump that "the meeting is all set"... 😮

Cohen calls this "peculiar" and "unusual"...

Wow... just wow....

This part made me laugh:
So because Trump's son w/ "the worst judgement" walked behind a desk to tell his dad about a meeting, Cohen "concluded that he was referring to the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting"...

Cohen - I think you & Schiff should start penny stock speculation fund

Cohen - "I have provided the Committee with copies of Tweets that Mr. Trump posted, attacking me and my family"

Don't worry, Cohen, you're about to spend the next 3 years in very special safe space 🚔

🏁Checkpoint: Final Lap🏁

To summarize - Cohen said:
1) Multiple lies
2) Trump is "racist" based on 2 remarks he allegedly made (without evidence)
3) He was not told by Trump to lie to Congress
4) Has no evidence of Russia Collusion
5) Tweets make him feel unsafe

🇺🇸Context & Conclusions🇺🇸
Trump's "fixer" - responsible for handling all of Trump's scandals, & who would know all of his darkest secrets, effectively has NOTHING.

Cohen will go down as a serial liar, disbarred lawyer, & disloyal friend...& there's nothing he can do to "fix" it

Appendix A: EVERYBODY ALREADY KNEW
Wikileaks announced it was going to drop documents

Appendix B: Putin The Plan Into Action

In December 2015, Podesta gets e-mail from Budowsky suggesting that they push a narrative about a budding "bromance" between Trump & Putin

Appendix C: Feel the Bern