He will not be a punching bag
Huh. The gruesome Michael Cohen says nope he’s not going to fall on his sword for Donnie.
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney who has found himself at the center of multiple legal issues in recent months, told ABC News he will “put family and country,” ahead of any loyalty to the president.
“My wife, my daughter and my son have my first loyalty and always will,” Cohen told “Good Morning America” host George Stephanopoulos in an interview that broadcast on Monday. “I put family and country first.”
Or football teams and lemonade flavors. Whatever, anything, as long as it’s not Don.
The FBI raid against Cohen has prompted speculation that he might cooperate with federal prosecutors probing the Trump campaign and allegations that it colluded with the Russian government in 2016. In his interview with ABC News, Cohen said he would not tolerate any effort by the White House to discredit him.
“I will not be a punching bag as part of anyone’s defense strategy,” he said emphatically. “I am not a villain of this story, and I will not allow others to try to depict me that way.”
It’s almost as if Donnie’s strategy of being a shit to everyone doesn’t always pay off.
Meh. I agree with Charlie Pierce on this: Cohen is a low-life fixer who worked for the grifter-in-chief, so it’s not like he deserves any benefit of a doubt that he means what he says.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a22024593/michael-cohen-flip-donald-trump/
Donnie demands loyalty, but the kind of loyalty he inspires is superficial. To get real loyalty, you need to be a real friend. You need to do some of the giving, give people reason to trust you and care about you. Donald is like his apartment – a glittery fake that is not comfortable and warm for living people.
Yeah, this has been sort of inevitable. Donnie attracts the worst human beings to his side, then somehow expects them to remain loyal and steadfast while he provides them with no actual support. (Note he hints about pardoning everyone, but he doesn’t actually do very much of it, because overusing that approach might actually serve as grounds to impeach him, and Donnie cares most–and only–about Donnie.)