The Art of the Lie: Cohen vs. Trump

It's time to Break It Down!

 

Donald Trump spent four years in the Oval Office. While there, folks charged with the awesome responsibility of tracking his veracity determined that he made over 30K misleading or untrue statements. In the final year, politeness was frequently abandoned, and the term increasingly used to describe his utterances was lie. 

 

Michael Cohen spent several years as Donald Trump’s lawyer. He was eventually elevated to self-proclaimed fixer. Trump gotta problem? Call Mikey! And we all know, because Trump told us repeatedly, he only hired the best people. Am I right?

 

Now that Trump’s, take your pick, hush money/falsification of records, trial is underway, we are frequently reminded that Cohen is a liar; even did time for it. I get it. Cohen is a guy whom a lot of people deem despicable. He bullied, intimidated, and yes, lied his way, as he endeavored to be all things to “Mr. Trump.” He even said, on occasion, he’d take a bullet for The Boss.

 

Cohen never had to step up and take that hot steel for Trump. But his perspective changed when, among other things, he would up doing a bid in prison for felony charges tied to the hush money deals, lying to Congress, and tax evasion. When pressed this week, Cohen admitted, he lied, but insisted he did so to protect Mr. Trump. Naturally, The Boss has said he’s innocent, and has done nothing wrong. 

 

Cohen is considered the pivotal witness for the prosecution, which rested its case yesterday, and indicated Cohen was its last witness. The defense began its cross-examination at the end of the day, and will resume on Thursday, after Wednesday’s regularly scheduled off day. The defense aggressively attacked Cohen’s character, and his propensity to take to Tik Tok to assail Trump. Mostly, the defense emphasized Cohen’s pattern and frequency of lying. Admittedly, our system of jurisprudence is predicated on the notion of an individual is innocent until proven guilty, Moreover, while Trump, as defendant, doesn’t have to take the stand. That is his right. But just between us, it has been firmly established Cohen is no paragon of virtue…but then, neither is Trump. “The Art of the Lie: Cohen vs. Trump!”

 

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Tales of the Trump Trials

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SCOTUS has placed the absolute immunity case on lock, likely until it wraps up its current Session in June.

 

Prosecutorial faux pas have waylaid the election racketeering case.

 

Judge Cannon, whom Trump appointed, has delayed indefinitely the classified documents case.

 

The hush money case, while underway, is presumed to be the weakest of the four cases…and while the motion was denied (for now), Trump’s team has already sought a mistrial. Moreover, at this rate, it’s unlikely any of the other three cases will be heard prior to the election…if at all.

 

For an alleged liberal conspiracy led by the “Biden justice system,” in relentless, partisan pursuit of Victim #1, things sure seem to be unfolding with a clear and present Trump bent. How ironic. And that, gentle readers, is the current state of play of “Tales of the Trump Trials!”

 

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Freedom of Speech is Merely a Figure of Speech

It's time to Break It Down!

 

Just so we’re clear, that was a rhetorical question. Of course it is. Why would I say that you may ask.

 

Well, for starters, if you are a student of current events, you have undisputable, and perpetually recurring evidence that speech is only free to those who agree with that speech. 

 

The underlying premise of free speech, as it appears to be viewed by the leading lights and opinion makers of the day is, “If I agree with it, it’s all good. If it discomforts me, it’s racist, or discriminatory, or defamatory, or hate speech, or antisemitic, or…you fill in the blank.

 

Campuses across America today are roiled, in part because Jews, and supporters of Jews believe and argue they are being persecuted, while Palestinians, and supporters of Palestinians believe the Israeli Prime Minister is fostering a proxy war aimed at annihilating Palestinians in the region. 

 

In the Middle East, far more than rhetoric has infected the discourse, and threatens the co-existence of two peoples, locked in a finite, and incredibly small land area. In the United States, the discord is still largely an increasing explosion of rhetoric, speech that both sides find unacceptable to their ears, when emanating from the other side. In their respective opinions, the speech of the other side should not be free…because ostensibly, the speech is a precursor for indecent acts, such as the October 7^th attack, murder, and hostage-taking on Israelis by Hamas, or the subsequent slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinians, a majority of whom have been women and children, carried out by Israelis, intent upon decimating and extinguishing Hamas. 

 

There are inherent festering problems of both sides of the equation. Palestinians and Israelis each hold a litany of grievances against each other. The conflict is as old as Israel itself. The nation we call Israel is relatively new, having been created in 1948. For years before that, Britain maintained a colonial mandate for Palestine. Furthermore, while peace in the Middle East has been a fleeting concept, since the very inception of Israel, the region has experienced sustained volitivity, dating back to Biblical times. In fact, that factoid has led some to opine, what would make anyone thing a region that has a history of thousands of years of sporadic warfare is ever going to just recalibrate, and opt to live in peace? 

 

I certainly am not here to submit a prescription for war. Rather, I am positing, upon intensive examination, there is no such thing as free speech. Never doubt, “Freedom of Speech is Merely a Figure of Speech!”

 

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