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And Now I’m Gonna Have To Turn My Back On You

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The president’s Socratic dialogues with the state propaganda network are not necessarily helpful to his associates:

Sometimes, those comments become part of the legal process on a remarkably expedited timeline, such as how Trump’s comments during an interview on Fox News’s “Fox and Friends” made its way into a legal filing by the U.S. Attorney’s Office from the Southern District of New York in less than three hours.

Trump was discussing the criminal investigation into his attorney Michael Cohen with the show’s hosts.
“This doesn’t have to do with me,” Trump said. “Michael is a businessman. He’s got a business. He also practices law. I would say probably the big thing is his business and they’re looking at something having to do with his business. I can tell you he’s a good guy.” Downplaying Cohen’s role, Trump noted that he had “so many attorneys, you wouldn’t even believe it.”

“How much of your legal work was handled by Michael Cohen?” host Steve Doocy asked.

“Well, as a percentage of my overall legal work, a tiny, tiny little fraction,” Trump replied.
That claim didn’t help Cohen.

As we’ve reported, Cohen’s legal team has been fighting in federal court to try to control how his files are reviewed to protect the confidentiality he had with his legal clients. Because he is an attorney, the search of Cohen’s home and office earlier this month necessitated a special set of precautions by FBI investigators, including additional levels of sign-off and the use of a special team to ensure that any potentially attorney-client privileged material wasn’t viewed by the team trying to build a case against Cohen.

Odd — normally Trump shows real loyalty to his lickspittles:

By the time the sun set Thursday, Dr. Ronny L. Jackson was a failed cabinet nominee whose life had been picked apart for public consumption, and Michael D. Cohen was back in court facing possible criminal prosecution.

A ride on President Trump’s bullet train can be thrilling, but it is often a brutal journey that leaves some bloodied by the side of the tracks. In only 15 months in office, Mr. Trump has burned through a record number of advisers and associates who have found themselves in legal, professional or personal trouble, or even all three.

Half of the top aides who came to the White House with Mr. Trump in 2017 are gone, many under painful circumstances, either because they fell out with the boss or came under the harsh scrutiny that comes with him. Some of the president’s longest-serving aides have left with bruises. His son and son-in-law have hired lawyers and been interrogated. Even his lawyers now have lawyers as they face inquiries of their own.

Proximity to Mr. Trump has been a crushing experience for many who arrived with stellar careers and independent reputations yet ended up losing so much. Rex W. Tillerson ran the world’s largest energy company. David Shulkin was a respected doctor and a “high priest” of the medical world. Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster was an admired warrior. So was John F. Kelly. Jeff Sessions held a safe seat in Congress. So did Tom Price. Now all of them are known for unhappy associations with Mr. Trump.

But he’s bound to settle down and start teaching his next set of sycophants right!

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