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The Fix Is In By Eve Berliner |
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The President of the |
Donald Trump personal attorney, Michael D. Cohen. |
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By
Eve Berliner Here are the judicious
words of Trump longtime confidante and personal attorney, Michael Dean Cohen,
in a 2011 interview with ABC News: “If somebody does
something Mr. Trump doesn’t like, I do everything in my power to resolve it
to Mr. Trump’s benefit. If you do
something wrong, I’m going to come at you, grab you by the neck and I’m not
going to let go until I’m finished.” And to reporter Tim Mak
of The Daily Beast who in 2015 dared to ask Cohen to comment on an
allegation of rape leveled against Donald by first wife Ivana -- [recanted
during Trump’s 2016 presidential run]: “I’m warning you, tread
very fucking lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be
fucking disgusting.” Today Cohen’s star has
fallen, faced with criminal investigation by Federal prosecutors for possible
bank fraud, wire fraud, campaign finance violations and assorted dirty
dealings and machinations. The stunning FBI raid on
Cohen’s home, office, hotel room, bank security box, et al. yielded a gold
mine. Agents seized emails, tax
records, business records, financial records, hard drives and most important,
surreptitious recordings of Cohen’s telephone conversations in the course of
his duties as Trump’s personal attorney and fixer. Donald
Trump phoned Cohen the other day. He
is advised not to do so. Did
he secretly tape record their years of unguarded, intensely private,
explosive conversation? Would
he betray? They
understand each other. The thug
mentality. The loyal trusted
accomplice. He
is like a son to him. Who can he trust now, Vladimir? Hope Hicks is gone. His
shadow and former bodyguard, Keith Schiller – in on all his shenanigans – is
gone. And now the prodigal son, the
Enforcer, the Fixer, Michael Cohen, upon whom he relies so deeply, so
faithfully, silenced, stolen away from him.
Even his dearest Ivanka is more estranged and torn with mixed
loyalties to Kushner. Fear
mushrooming in the depths of him. The question at
hand. Can Michael Cohen now be
trusted? Facing twenty or thirty years
in prison, would he give up his life for Donald Trump? Will
he flip? Will
he squeal? Will he wear a wire? Will he turn? He was like a son. “I’m the guy who
protects the President and the family.
I’m the guy who would take a bullet for the President,” Michael
Cohen told Vanity Fair magazine in September of 2017. Self-preservation,
a basic urge of the human race. He
was like a son. Trust,
Loyalty, Omerta. |
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