His "weakness" is shared by lots of people on this forum:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/michael-cohen-scheduled-to-be-sentenced-for-crimes-committed-while-working-for-trump/2018/12/11/57226ff2-fcbf-11e8-83c0-b06139e540e5_story.html?utm_term=.5a2cd77fc63c&wpisrc=al_news__alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1

NEW YORK A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen to three years in prison for financial crimes and lying to Congress, as the disgraced former "fixer" apologized for his conduct but also said he felt it was his duty to cover up the "dirty deeds" of his former boss.

Cohen made an emotional, teary apology to U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III, taking responsibility for crimes that included tax violations, lying to a bank, and buying the silence during the 2016 campaign of women who alleged affairs with the future president.

"My weakness could be characterized as a blind loyalty to Donald Trump," Cohen told the packed courtroom, standing at a podium where he would at times become emotional and pause to regain his composure.

The judge also ordered Cohen to pay nearly $2 million in financial penalties for his crimes.

Jinx 2 said:

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His "weakness" is shared by lots of people on this forum:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/michael-cohen-scheduled-to-be-sentenced-for-crimes-committed-while-working-for-trump/2018/12/11/57226ff2-fcbf-11e8-83c0-b06139e540e5_story.html?utm_term=.5a2cd77fc63c&wpisrc=al_news__alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1

NEW YORK A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen to three years in prison for financial crimes and lying to Congress, as the disgraced former "fixer" apologized for his conduct but also said he felt it was his duty to cover up the "dirty deeds" of his former boss.

Cohen made an emotional, teary apology to U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III, taking responsibility for crimes that included tax violations, lying to a bank, and buying the silence during the 2016 campaign of women who alleged affairs with the future president.

"My weakness could be characterized as a blind loyalty to Donald Trump," Cohen told the packed courtroom, standing at a podium where he would at times become emotional and pause to regain his composure.

The judge also ordered Cohen to pay nearly $2 million in financial penalties for his crimes.

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I know of no one who has blind loyalty to Trump. In fact, most on here voted for him because Hillary was a worse choice. That's not blind loyalty. Also, many of us do not agree with his opinions or what he tweets. but there is no point in whining about it on a message board. I do agree with him on immigration, the wall, abortion, making our allies pay their own way, decreasing the hysteria around human-impacted climate change and the economy.

What is your definition of blind loyalty?

Jinx 2 said:

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His "weakness" is shared by lots of people on this forum:

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FFS just stop.

fadskier said:

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Jinx 2 said:

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His "weakness" is shared by lots of people on this forum:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/michael-cohen-scheduled-to-be-sentenced-for-crimes-committed-while-working-for-trump/2018/12/11/57226ff2-fcbf-11e8-83c0-b06139e540e5_story.html?utm_term=.5a2cd77fc63c&wpisrc=al_news__alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1

NEW YORK A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen to three years in prison for financial crimes and lying to Congress, as the disgraced former "fixer" apologized for his conduct but also said he felt it was his duty to cover up the "dirty deeds" of his former boss.

Cohen made an emotional, teary apology to U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III, taking responsibility for crimes that included tax violations, lying to a bank, and buying the silence during the 2016 campaign of women who alleged affairs with the future president.

"My weakness could be characterized as a blind loyalty to Donald Trump," Cohen told the packed courtroom, standing at a podium where he would at times become emotional and pause to regain his composure.

The judge also ordered Cohen to pay nearly $2 million in financial penalties for his crimes.

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I know of no one who has blind loyalty to Trump. In fact, most on here voted for him because Hillary was a worse choice. That's not blind loyalty. Also, many of us do not agree with his opinions or what he tweets. but there is no point in whining about it on a message board. I do agree with him on immigration, the wall, abortion, making our allies pay their own way, decreasing the hysteria around human-impacted climate change and the economy.

What is your definition of blind loyalty?

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Cohen, who is now serving prison time. Voters like Doc and Rifle. Sanders and Conway.

Republicans who KNOW Trump and some members of his campaign staff did illegal things and don't want to investigate because of that don't fall into that category--they only care about saving their asses, and trying to shore Trump up is part of their work.

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Well, gee, I'm seeing that spin on Fox, at heritage.org and in the Daily Signal.

Here's Jonah Goldberg's take: https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/columnists/national/jonah-goldberg-law-vs-morality-in-the-trump-campaign-finance/article_0beb0049-7d44-561e-b651-7d0a8eaab0ed.html

Let's imagine that President Donald Trump gave a White House news conference in the nude. "As you can see," he might say, paraphrasing the semi-apocryphal quip Winston Churchill made when FDR accidentally encountered him emerging from a hot bath in the White House, disrobed. "I have nothing to hide from the American people."

In the District of Columbia, public indecency of this sort is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $500 and up to 90 days in jail. Yet few people would immediately defend the president's behavior as nothing more than a minor legal faux pas. (Save, perhaps, the vice president, who might applaud such presidential transparency.)

This kind of violation of norms and decency would have the Cabinet scrambling to invoke the 25th Amendment. Even the Republican House Freedom Caucus would talk openly about impeachment, because the public would have lost faith and confidence in the president almost as quickly as it would if he had stood in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shot someone.

Meanwhile, in the real world, the president stands credibly accused of violating far more serious laws than misdemeanor public indecency. In filings last week, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York told a judge that the president abetted campaign finance violations felonies that come with a maximum prison sentence of five years.

But the reaction to these accusations, from both his defenders and his critics, is a fog of legalisms. The only difference between the two sides is whether the alleged illegalities are grave or trivial.

The real issue should be whether the president has violated the public trust, a concept that covers far more than squabbling between lawyers.

And there's also this: https://www.wsj.com/articles/michael-cohen-trumps-former-lawyer-sentenced-to-threeyears-in-prison-11544634377?mod=trending_now_2

Manhattan federal prosecutors also publicly disclosed a non-prosecution agreement with American Media Inc., the National Enquirer's parent company, for its role in paying $150,000 in August 2016 to former Playboy model Karen McDougal to quash her story of an affair with Mr. Trump. American Media admitted the payment's primary purpose was to suppress Ms. McDougal's story to prevent it from influencing the 2016 election, prosecutors said, adding that the company provided "substantial" assistance to the government and agreed to provide future cooperation.

David Pecker, American Media's chief executive and a longtime friend of Mr. Trump, had shared information with prosecutors about Mr. Trump's direct involvement in the payment scheme and received immunity for testifying before a grand jury in the Cohen investigation, the Journal previously reported.

In case you forgot ....more than 17 million dollars in taxpayers money has been paid out since 1997 to settle 'work place disputes' on Capital Hill.

Much of the disputes were sexual harassment claims.

So let's not get too noble here Jinxy.....it doesn't wear on you well.

Canada2017 said:

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In case you forgot ....more than 17 million dollars in taxpayers money has been paid out since 1997 to settle 'work place disputes' on Capital Hill.

Much of the disputes were sexual harassment claims.

So let's not get too noble here Jinxy.....it doesn't wear on you well.

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Does Blake Farenthold have to repay the $85K taxpayers shelled out to settle his harassment incident?

Said he would...for whatever that's worth .

Point is you Have a double standard a mile wide. Capital Hill boys have been paying hush money for years .

At taxpayers expense. Let's see you bring up such issues when it's a Dem.

Canada2017 said:

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Said he would...for whatever that's worth .

Point is you Have a double standard a mile wide. Capital Hill boys have been paying hush money for years .

At taxpayers expense. Let's see you bring up such issues when it's a Dem.

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Had I known the Capitol Hill boys had been paying hush money for years, I'd have objected loudly. I think women have a bipartisan view on this issue, and I can't believe Congress still had policies in place like that in place to protect the likes of Blake Farenthold in 2018. We don't care what party the jerk is; if he behaves like a jerk, he doens't belong in office. Notice that Dems like Franken disappeared, where Trump is still POTUS and got elected by Republicans even after bragging about grabbing women by the p--sy.

Here's the deal, Canada. I honestly Don't Care that Trump paid hush money to a porn star who wrote a book about how his ++++ looked like a super mario mushroom or to a Playboy bunnie--although I DO think this undermines a lot of the moral outrage I've seen on this site about Clinton's adultery.

I do, however, care if he violated campaign finance laws doing it.

And I care even MORE if his campaign colluded with Russia or Wikileaks to sabatage Clinton (although she did a perfectly good job of that on her own).

Finally, you're seriously talking about a double standard (!!!!) when we're supposed to overlook the adultery, groping and business skulduggery of Trump and his cronies and the fact that he hasn't released his tax returns (hoping Congress can subpeona them) but it was OK to impeach Bill Clinton for lying under oath about hankey pankey in the oval office because Republicans couldn't get him on anything else. Where's Ken Starr when we need him. Maybe he'll come back to get Brett Kavanaugh to come up with another salacious list of questions to ask POTUS about HIS peccadillos. (Seriously, thank God we've got Mueller, who has several convictions and guilty pleas of assorted scumbags in Trump's orbit under his belt, instead of Starr.)

Your glass house doesn't have any walls left, and the foundation is breaking. Now's a good time to head for that bunker and start eating tuna and baked beans until POTUS is impeached or quits. I'm betting on the latter, since he doesn't give a shlt about public service.

Big difference between Clinton with a young intern IN the White House....and Trump with a porn ***** ten years BEFORE the White House .

Period

Voted for Trump because he wasn't Hillary Clinton .....still works .