Tiresome Drive-Bys All Cover Cohen Sentence the Same Way

RUSH: You know, folks, it just gets tiresome. I don’t know how else to describe it. It just gets tiresome. The Drive-By Media is just beside itself with the sentencing hearing today of Michael Cohen. They’ve got themselves convinced that Michael Cohen being sentenced is the same thing as Donald Trump being sentenced, and so whatever Cohen gets, they think Trump is next in line. That’s how they’re interpreting this. That’s how they’re reporting this.

They’re reporting Cohen saying things like (paraphrasing), “Yeah, you know, Trump’s right. I was weak. I didn’t have the guts to stand up to Trump when he was trying to get me to cover up his dirty deeds. So, yeah, I am weak. Trump’s right. I should have been a better man.” And he’s copping to everything, and he’s blaming Trump for whatever he made him do and so forth.

But Cohen today, the way to understand, this is what gets tiresome about it. Donald Trump is not in that courtroom, and Donald Trump’s not being sentenced to anything. And Donald Trump is not gonna be in that courtroom and isn’t gonna be sentenced to anything. So they’re acting like Cohen is a proxy or a stand-in.

All morning long it has been impossible to turn on any news network and not see a bunch of breathless anticipation counting down to the Cohen sentencing hearing in federal court in New York, U.S. District Court, New York City.

Here’s the thing about this. I saw Andy McCarthy on TV earlier today, and he made a great, great point. That if these witnesses were all that valuable in getting Trump, they wouldn’t be being sentenced today. They would be withheld for testimony. A sentencing for somebody that’s gonna turn state’s evidence or become a huge witness for the prosecution against some perp, the sentencing occurs after they testify. Because when they testify, I mean, they can have their sentencing document and they promise to say what they’re gonna say.

‘Cause I’m telling you right now that what they’re accusing Cohen of doing, in one regard paying off these women for Trump, is not a crime. And if it is, there are 276 members of Congress waiting to be charged on the same thing.

I went through this a couple days ago. Mark Penn has written a column about it today, even. Congress has a slush fund where taxpayer dollars are used to pay off women who make allegations of sexual abuse or sexual harassment, this kind of thing. Members of Congress aren’t gonna pay that. Hell, no. They’ve got their own slush fund to pay the women off, and there is total anonymity in privacy. Trump engages in a private transaction complete with nondisclosure agreements with two women. Said to be campaign finance violations and they think people are gonna go to jail over this? It isn’t gonna happen. But they’re living in their fantasy world.

Okay. Here’s the book that was thrown at Michael Cohen. He’s got a fourth and 500 grand. He has to make $1.4 million in restitution. That’s for the tax fraud, and a $50,000 fine. This actually is a light sentence, given his crimes, especially the massive tax fraud he engaged in. I don’t know if he’s paid any of that back. I don’t know how much he defrauded, but he’s got $1.4 million in restitution that he has to make.

I would bet that he’s already heard from people who want to do book and movie deals. And I can just see them now.

And you’ll be left to wonder which is real and which isn’t. Oh, yeah, and a GoFundMe page, that will be up and running any time soon.

CNN is all smiles. I mean, it’s been a long time since anybody at CNN’s been this happy. I guess they don’t have any sympathy for Cohen. Cohen’s going away for three years. His life is pretty much over. CNN’s ecstatic because they’re seeing Donald Trump, not Michael Cohen. Incredible.

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