So House Republicans claim that Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen lacks credibility because he is a witness who was convicted of lying to Congress in the past. They called him a “fake witness.”
They offer this as a servile defense of Trump, who lies as naturally as most people breathe. Like a triple chocolate dessert, the irony is almost too rich to digest.
Hopefully Trump’s ardent supporters in Lewis County paid close attention to Cohen’s testimony about Trump’s custom of stiffing small business owners and laborers. He has a long and well-known reputation for this. The only new light shed by Michael Cohen is that we learned just how much pleasure Trump took in doing this.
Most troubling, but not surprising, of Cohen’s assertions was the statement that “Given my experience working for Mr. Trump, I fear that if he loses the election in 2020 there will never be a peaceful transition of power.”
No doubt Trump would claim “massive voter fraud” (he laid the groundwork for that in 2016), declare another “ national emergency” and probably follow that up by declaring martial law (he is the commander-in-chief) to quell any” lawless” protests. It is the historically well-worn pathway to dictatorship.
If banana Republicans then continue their groveling defense of Trump they should know that history will recognize them as aiding and abetting the establishment of a despot and eventually they would be tried on the same charge of treason as their “fake president.”
Impeachment would be moot. Treason is a capital crime.
Marty Ansley
Cinebar
