Thread by @Monaheart1229

heh.. this is good. Alexandra Petri lends a little levity to the highly charged Michael Cohen testimony yesterday.
#ThursdayThoughts
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

2-"Michael Cohen’s testimony Wednesday was a thrilling orgy of yelling, and it went roughly as follows: MICHAEL COHEN: Donald Trump is a racist, a con man and a cheat! I can say this for sure because I was indispensable to him for years. If this is a witch hunt, I was his

3-"familiar. For several years, he turned me into a toad, and I was honestly grateful. Anyway, 2016 was a huge mistake. He was just trying to build his brand. He never expected to be president. I used to be his right hand, which is to say I was used to shake with contractors he

4-"did not want to pay. His net worth is just a dream he has in his mind, and his SAT scores are a crude crayon drawing of a dinosaur. Also, his bone spurs were an illusion. He speaks in code, like a combo of an old-time mobster and a malfunctioning Sim. Once he told me in

5-"confidence that Donald Trump Jr. was a moron. Uh, I am testifying now because I have decided to alter the habit of a lifetime and also because I missed having old men yell at me. Please embrace me as you embraced other dubious Michaels who criticized Donald Trump in the past.

6-"REP. MARK MEADOWS (R-N.C.): To your first point, how dare you speak ill of President Trump? I have never heard him say anything racist in private. He saves these remarks for his public, where they are appreciated and have led to his election. Speaking of problematic statements

7-"about race, I have brought in a black person who works for President Trump. I think that says it all! ANOTHER REPUBLICAN: Have you ever considered that if President Trump has ever done anything wrong in his life, which we DOUBT, it is because he was given bad legal advice by

8-"a bad man who has been subsequently disbarred? That maybe instead of pointing fingers at this beautiful man, you, a noted and convicted liar —COHEN: I was telling lies for Donald Trump. A REPUBLICAN: Don’t you bring Donald Trump into this! Donald Trump is a beautiful person.

9-"Maybe if you’d sat on his right shoulder giving him good advice instead of his left shoulder giving him bad advice, things would be different! A DEMOCRAT: Uh, not to put too fine a point on it, but isn’t the thing you were lying about before that Donald Trump never did

10-"anything wrong? A REPUBLICAN: Who can even believe a word this man says? Why are we wasting time here with this liar, a man who has told lies?! There is nothing I hate more than people who have told lies, even a single time, let alone regularly! COHEN: Does anyone have the

11-"slightest interest in questioning me about, like, the crimes? A DIFFERENT REPUBLICAN: I have an interest in asking why Donald Trump, a prince of a man, whose sandal I am not fit to tie the thong of, would hire a gremlin, a ghoul, a gargoyle — NAY, a grotesque, for you do not

12-"even keep water away from the sides of buildings during rainstorms — like yourself? What kind of wool did you pull over his perfect, beautiful, all-seeing eyes? COHEN: I did this for years and I’m honestly a little embarrassed listening to you. A REPUBLICAN: We could be using

13-"this time to fix family separations, a priority we have never expressed before, if we weren’t dragging ourselves down in the dirt with you and your silly, sordid allegations. COHEN: I’m sorry. ANOTHER REPUBLICAN: Don’t tell me you’re sorry, ’cause you’re not! You know you’re

14-"only sorry you got caught! How dare you violate attorney-client privilege? COHEN: I lost my law license? A DEMOCRAT: Uh, was there … a love child? COHEN: No? OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS (D-MD.): Did anyone prep for this? FURTHER DEMOCRAT: What is the

15-"truth Donald Trump is most afraid of? COHEN: Are you a sphinx? ANOTHER DEMOCRAT: What goes on three legs in the evening, four legs in the morning and two legs at night? COHEN: Uh, the Mueller investigation?
CUMMINGS: Seriously, did anyone prep for this? SOME REPUBLICAN: Why

16-"would we prep for a travesty of the process?! Why would we sully ourselves by thinking of this for a second more than strictly necessary? We have important business to transact! CUMMINGS: Am I hallucinating the 600 years we spent grilling Hillary Clinton? A REPUBLICAN: Mr.

17-"Cohen, is it true that you are doing this just to appear on television and sell books? I hate books! Books contain FACTS and sometimes WITCHES! I frown upon them. Look at you on the TV right now, gaining publicity, when I for one had never heard of you before in my life until

18-"you appeared today! No, not even when you were deputy finance chair of the RNC. This is a fact that reflects on you, not on me! OTHER REPUBLICAN: You say you are a liar. How do we know what to believe, if you always lie? COHEN: No, no! If I said, “Donald Trump always tells

19-"the truth,” and then HE said, “Michael Cohen always lies,” THEN you would not know what to believe! FURTHER REPUBLICAN: I am insulted by the fact that we are continuing to waste time by being here, listening to me talk about what a waste of time this is, sitting here,

20-"listening to me talk about what a waste of time it is to sit here listening to me! [A lengthy recess.] REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-N.Y.): I have some questions about the possible crimes and about whom I might ask to find more information about crimes. COHEN: Oh, here

21-"are several associates you can consult. Thank you! I was feeling like nobody cared. REP. AYANNA PRESSLEY (D-MASS.): Is is true, Mr. Cohen, that someone can have a black friend and be racist? COHEN: Yes. REP. RASHIDA TLAIB (D-MICH.): I just want to say that one might call

22-"bringing in a person of color as some sort of prop to prove that the president is not racist … kind of racist. [Ten minutes ensue during which Mark Meadows has to be reassured that saying he did something racist is not the same as calling him, personally, a racist, an

23-"unthinkable insult that would require him to meet them with pistols in a clearing at dawn. He is friends with the chairman and does not have a racist bone in his body! Why, he has relatives of color! Everything stops until he can be sufficiently soothed but before he can

24-"announce how many times he has seen “Green Book.” Michael Cohen is also there.] COHEN: Uh, I am sorry for every decision that led me to have to sit here through this interaction. I gave Donald Trump everything, and I see you now, doing what I did. You think he will not also

25-"turn you into toads. But I see the slime forming on your cranial crests. I know where this is headed. CUMMINGS: Mr. Cohen, you seem in a funk. But remember, this is your destiny to be here. In the future, when we are dancing with the angels, they will ask, what did you do in

26-"the year 2019? And you will be able to say that you tried to do the right thing! Or at least sat through this hearing being insulted for six hours while we learned … not much! [A flourish of trumpets. Michael Cohen is borne partway into the sky, trailing clouds of glory.

27-"He remains hovering about three feet over the table until one of his lawyers begins pushing him along down the hallway like a sad balloon.]" ~A. Petri, NYT, 2/28/19 Thought we could all use a little humor this morning!