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The vermin are restless.
By MJ Lee, Kara Scannell and Gloria Borger, CNN
Updated 5:48 PM ET, Tue June 19, 2018
Washington (CNN)Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen has signaled to friends that he is "willing to give" investigators information on the President if that's what they are looking for, and is planning on hiring a new lawyer to handle a possible indictment from federal prosecutors.
"He knows a lot of things about the President and he's not averse to talking in the right situation," one of Cohen's New York friends who is in touch with him told CNN. "If they want information on Trump, he's willing to give it."
Cohen is planning to hire Guy Petrillo, a former chief of the criminal division of the US attorney's office in Manhattan and an experienced trial lawyer, a source familiar confirmed. The source said all the paperwork and retainer may not have been finalized just yet.
The shift in legal strategy and signals of potential cooperation with investigators come as Cohen feels increasingly isolated from the President, whom he has been famously loyal to for more than a decade. Last week, CNN reported Cohen has indicated a willingness to cooperate to alleviate pressure on himself and his family.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/19/politics/michael-cohen-criminal-lawyer-guy-petrillo/index.html
If Cohen says he is "willing to give" info to investigators about Trump for the right plea deal, then that clearly signifies that he has knowledge and corroborating, likely documented evidence that would be very, very damaging to Drumpf, and quite probably to others in Drumpf's empire.
Two crucial points need to be noted here.
Cohen full well knows that Robert Mueller and his investigators have possession of the mother lode of 15 months of investigative information and evidence on his own criminal chicanery in their possession, and that he is fucked for it six ways from Sunday.
Secondly - Michael Cohen is 52 years old. He has a wife and kids, and no doubt, in his mind, he has got to be thinking to himself - "am I 20 years fucked or maybe just 5 or 6 years fucked?" That is a critically enormous difference considering Cohen's age and family status.
And so the obviously pivotal question then becomes - where is Michael Cohen's loyalty most dedicated? Is it to Donald Trump? Or is that loyalty significantly more beholden to his wife, his children, and to the quality of his own life for the remaining time that he walks on this earth?
Do you see where The Gadfly is going with this folks? It's pretty goddamn unmistakable what the next chapter in this very sordid saga is.
As such - now is the time to keep a careful watch on Drumpf's behavior and actions. If he is convinced that his long-time "fixer" attorney is going to spill his ever-loving guts to Mueller about Drumpf's illicit activities and assorted other moral transgressions, then we have officially arrived at that inevitable cornered rat time -- and this rat is a big, fat, orange, devious one with nasty sharp teeth and, who it must be pointed out, has his pudgy little finger hovering over the big, red nuclear button.
Keep that in mind as the coming constitutional crisis begins to evolve more steadily and intensifies, as it must do considering the reality that we are facing as regards to Drumpf's own loyalty questions and standing.
That's all.
----TFG
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