ICHEOKU says if he lied then, what is the guarantees that he is not lying now; otherwise the president can easily claim that he did whatever he is being accused of doing based on the advise of his counsel, Michael Cohen. ICHEOKu refuses to agree that it was due to pure blind loyalty that Michael Cohen did what Michael Cohen did, commit multiple crimes, thinking that he would get away with them, but he was caught and now this stupid idiocy that a client made a lawyer commit crimes. If it was just only one crime, may be; but there was a pattern of misbehavior involving multiple crimes, many of which were committed outside his then existing legal relationship with the president.
ICHEOKU is not buying it as it will require the suspension of disbelief to accept that a lawyer, hired to protect and prevent his client from going astray of the law, will be the one, now being made by the same client, who sought and retained his services to always ensure that he remained within the confines of the law, will be the person who made him to commit the same infractions for which he was hired to protect and prevent the client from making. This is a guy who benefited enormously and profited heavily from his association with then businessman Donald John Trump as his personal lawyer, who Trump hired to advise him on matters of the law, to ensure that he does not violate any law and is always compliant with every existing rules and regulations. So, who in fact should be held liable for any violations, the doctor who misdiagnosed the patient or the patient who, based on the expertise of the doctor in the area of his affliction, went to him for a paid diagnosis and treatment.
Michael Cohen was Trump's lawyer and Trump was his client, so who advises who on what the law says? Why did Michael Cohen think that Trump kept him on a fat retainer and payroll throughout all these years? Does Michael Cohen always do what he is told or directed to do; and had Trump directed him to whack his family, would he have done that? Speaking of a loyal person who always did whatever Trump asked or directed him to do; begging the question, why did he not refuse to violate any extant law or simply cautioned his client that what he was asking or rather "directing" him to do was an illegal campaign financing, As a lawyer, why did Michael Cohen not advise his client that what he asked him to do or sought his advise on was against the law and rather elect to resign his retainer than follow through with it. The question Michael Cohen is not answering, is, why he went ahead to break the law or was the offer too juicy to pass on?
ICHEOKU says wants to know what Michael Cohen exactly meant when he said previously that he will take a bullet for Trump. Did Michael Cohen literally mean it then, figuratively speaking; or was it a merely vacuous emotional boast, short of any substance and made as a good soundbite in order to please his then client, Trump? What changed between the making of the statement and now, that made Michael Cohen to become the worse snitch ever? Was Michael Cohen just trying to be vengeful and in order to take his pound of flesh because he fell out of favor with his client. What happened to trigger this morphing fro from a once trusted consiglieri to now the counsel from the bottomless pit of hell who rats on his client.
Does Michael Cohen still sees himself as credible, honest, truthful, trustworthy and honorable. If Michael Cohen was in trouble and seeking relief from the law, would he hire a Michael Cohen now known to every American as well as the rest of the world as the lawyer who snitched on his client to represent him? If Michael Cohen was seeking legal advise and counsel, would he seek it from or hire a Michael Cohen to give him it? If Michael Cohen is a client to Michael Cohen and he tape recorded him surreptitiously, how would Michael Cohen feel? Does Michael Cohen think that a lawyer, who snitches on his client, deserves any honor and respect; and what exactly does Michael Cohen think attorney/client privilege entails and why did that elude his awareness? Was Michael Cohen mindful of this ethical obligation to safeguard the secrets he learnt of while in the service of a client, which he owed his then client Trump?
When exactly did Michael Cohen knew that what Trump "directed" him to do was a crime and if then, why did he proceed with it and not terminate the retainer forthwith other than comply with an illegal instruction; or even refused to oblige Trump and even elect to be fired rather than break the law as "directed." Or did Michael Cohen think that he was going to get away with it as he normally does with all his other infractions; or bullishly carried on simply because he was paid such a high retainer fees which is so mouthwatering that he could not resist it.
If Trump is such a horrible person who directed Michael Cohen to commit crimes, it cannot just be on one or two occasions that he issued such directive. Michael Cohen should therefore tell Americans where he buried other dead bodies as he was directed by Trump, because such a "despicable" person as Trump, could not have stopped from just directing Michael Cohen into paying for sex with two women of easy virtue, because they were blackmailing him and threatening to go public with their salacious affairs with Trump and Trump just wanted to make their nuisance go away, just end.
ICHEOKU says if anybody should be believed and given the benefit of the doubt in this disputation, it must be the president who did what every wise businessman or woman does, keep a lawyer near himself to ensure compliance to rules, regulations and laws. Michael Cohen therefore has the onus of explaining why the laws were broken, regardless of who broke it. If the law was broken by Michael Cohen, then he is a criminal, who thought that he could get away with just anything simply because he is a lawyer and knows how to cover his tracks and trails. But if the president, then Michael Cohen equally failed him woefully, in his duty to the president then as a compliance attorney, whose job was to prevent such matter from ever happening.
So, by not advising the president properly on permissible conducts by an intending presidential candidate, prelude to a presidential election, and also watching such mistakes take place, without intervening to stop them, Michael Cohen is also responsible for what took place. His duty to the president was dual, first is to not break the law by himself simply because he was directed to and second, he owed the president the duty not to personally break any law, no matter the guise and/or subterfuge.
ICHEOKU says is not buying into Michael Cohen's claim of perfidy and at best, he made it up as he went just to protect and safeguard his lying butt; afterall he is the one who is a lawyer and was schooled in the art of lying and covering things up. As the president rightly pointed out, Michael Cohen most likely said what he said in order to get a lenient sentences from his myriad of criminal conducts, for which he has now been convicted and sent to three years in prison, which starts on March 2019. It does not make sense and it does not add up, that a client could so have such a total and complete and overwhelming control over his counsel, as to exert such amount of influence on him; and become the person directing the lawyer on matters of the law and not the other way round - the natural way between a client and his lawyer.
Michael Cohen could safely pass for a disgruntled former lawyer, who was out to exact revenge, by making false unsubstantiated statements against a former client, who he formerly swore, was the best thing to happen to him since the sliced bread, just because that pipeline which watered his bread and butter has been completely shut off.
A guy who is steeped in the habit of tape recording his conversations with clients including Trump, but did not or failed or refused to record the instance in which Trump directed him to break the law in this particular matter. ICHEOKU says it us extremely difficult to accept that Michael Cohen, a lawyer, who was retained to prevent such a breach of the law, will be directed to breach the same law and he simply acquiesced, still stayed on in the contract, without resigning his retainer. It was definitely not by reason of blind loyalty as he claimed, that Michael Cohen did what Michael Cohen did.
Michael Cohen had a pattern of breaking the laws and committing crimes predating his retainer by Trump and the present issue under discussion, as evidenced by his tax cheating, taxi medallions and other crimes which he committed outside the president's knowledge or legal relationship, but in his habitual conduct as a criminal. If the president directed him to pay off the two women, why did the president not also direct him to pay off the other 38 women who lined up to cast their stones of fantasy encounter with the president. Why just the two women, except that Michael Cohen was probably incohoot with them and wanted to scam the president possibly.
ICHEOKU says a wretched Michael Cohen saw an opportunity to make money from a billionaire and turned into a lapping dog, eager to please in order to remain in the favored book of the president and bent over backwards to make himself acceptable and loved by the president, such that he was prepared to do and possibly did what it took to keep his checks coming as a result of his billable. Michael Cohen saw a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow in the president and decided to suckle on to the president, without regard to his primary obligation as a lawyer, to advise his client appropriately on what the law is on every given situation, as his advise may be sought or expected. Michael Cohen wanted to earn his upkeep by all means necessary and ended up being too overzealous, and ended up being too over-broad in approving and agreeing to do whatever the heck that paid his bills, in total disregard to the law.
Michael Cohen is a despicable desperate person, who thought that he was too smart to be nabbed and ended up being nabbed, anyway. ICHEOKU hopes that karmic law will visit Michael Cohen in prison and dispense to him such justice as it regularly meted out to snitches. What a disgrace to the legal profession, this pitiful person Michael Cohen, really is. Michael Cohen is not worthy of trust and as a lawyer, he is not good. May he never recover from the trauma that his prison experience will visit upon his psyche. What a mumbling bumbling snitching ratty-lawyer from hell he is, who no client should ever desire again nor find fit for any representation by him whatsoever, not in this life.
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