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Cohen was under scrutiny for his taxes and biz for years, and had Trump lost, that wouldn't have changed. His Trump connection just made him more shiny ball when Trump rose. It's true that Mueller would not be investigating Trump, and Cohen would not have anything to trade to maybe let his family keep some money, but the crime was not "gjnned up." Cohen was getting teed up sooner or later.He's being squezzed but not entrapped. It's no different than a guy arrested for narcotics who is told that he could still have a life if he's got someone bigger to give up. It's not creating any crime that wouldn't be there without the squeeze.Funny though, not one news outlet is reporting this including FOX...………………
Cohen can not even mention Trump without being disbarred.
I'd call his treatment entrapment.
Scuze moi - but ginning up a crime that causes the subject to face bankrupting level legal fees is a typical Statist tactic. Then next step is go full Flynn treatment and to threaten Cohen's family.
It was, as I said, procedurally indistinguishable when the feds turn a lower level drug offender against his boss, or what Mueller did with organized crime. (and yeah I know Mueller was in deep with Bulger). Cohen may actually get a better deal because of Trump and Russia than he would have gotten otherwise.
Flynn's a stranger case. Cohen's biz activity goes back years, but Flynn's rise to having something to sell to Turkey and possibly Russia only came about when he latched onto Trump as being some kind of natl security expert advisor. He caught the Trump gig literally because no one qualified would work for Trump on foreign policy, and we are seeing why. LOL
Flynn's certainly a more tragic case, imo. Anyone paying attention knew Cohen had all kinds of bad shit in his biz dealings. Flynn was known to be more a conspiracy theory sucker and political neophyte who trashed an distinguished military career. He was a sucker for Trump's siren call of ubernationalism but not a career slime bagman extortionist like Cohen. Don't lose sleep over that fuck, he's like something out of the Sopranos
It must give you a great deal of comfort to embrace both an active fantasy life as well as a certainty that the New Prog rules will never be applied to you.
Just be ready for the retaliation when you finally really Get Woke.