Liz Sheld:
“…Yesterday, the media was LIT UP talking about their favorite thing: Trump’s impeachment. If you get your information from the legacy media, you would think that Cohen put the nail in Trump’s coffin with his guilty plea, “admitting” that the President directed him to pay off some [alleged] blackmailing trollops with campaign money. The #resistance is all worked up now because they think this is actually going to happen. When it doesn’t happen, they are going to be angry and, as we have seen, violent. The media does this over and over again: they get some idiot partisans to present fantasy logic and reasoning that Trump is finally going down and when it doesn’t happen, they go nuts. The media is destroying the country.
All day long yesterday, a parade of morons were on cable news and the internet quacking about how Cohen’s guilty plea will destroy Trump. Here’s a Politico story with a tag team of “insiders” talking about how Trump is “unraveling” and “terrified.”
But it’s also been so brutally, consistently one-sided, and the Cohen flip brings to the fore the fragility of Trump’s transactional brand of loyalty and potentially its ultimate incompatibility with the presidency. This is not some tabloid or Twitter tit-for-tat. The stakes are of course incomparably higher. And Trump’s long span of quiet about Cohen was so out of character it suggested even he understands the reality of his legal jeopardy. For the first time, it appeared, a once biddable lapdog had turned around and bitten the boss—hard.
On the other hand, Lanny Davis who was panhandling on cable news for Cohen’s legal fund, undermined a central #resistance lie: that Trump “authorized” the famous Trump Tower meeting. Not so much, writes Chuck Ross at the Daily Caller.
“So Michael Cohen does not have information that President Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting with the Russians beforehand or even after?” CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Davis.
“No, he does not,” replied Davis, a longtime Clinton insider who started representing Cohen earlier this summer.
Davis’s bombshell statement severely undercuts a July 27 CNN report that Cohen was willing to tell special counsel Robert Mueller that he was in a meeting when Donald Trump Jr. told his father about an offer to meet with a group of Russians who wanted to provide dirt on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
According to CNN’s anonymous sources, Trump approved the meeting, which took place on June 9, 2016. Democrats seized on the CNN report as evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
“Well, I think the reporting of the story got mixed up in the course of a criminal investigation. We were not the source of the story. And the question of a criminal investigation, the advice we were given, those of us dealing with the media is that we could not do anything other than stay silent,” Davis told Cooper.
Womp, womp. This story will probably drag out for a few more days. Consider yourself warned…”
https://pjmedia.com/blog/liveblogevent/live-blog-62/entry-238135/