You Will Anyway: There'll be some new questions at Cohen's February testimony

Thursday, January 17, 2019

There'll be some new questions at Cohen's February testimony

The head of a small polling firm used by President Trump's campaign during the 2016 election says that Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer, hired his firm to rig two online polls in the president's favor and paid less than half of what was owed in cash.

John Gauger, director of RedFinch Solutions LLC and the chief information officer at Liberty University, told The Wall Street Journal that Cohen gave him just more than $12,000 in a Wal-Mart shopping bag that also contained a boxing glove Cohen said was from a Brazilian mixed-martial arts fighter.

The Hill

What. The. Fuck.

The cash, Gauger told the Journal, was for his firm's unsuccessful attempts to rig the polls.

I have two points to make to Mr. Gauger: 1) Did you get immunity from Mueller to report? Because this sounds like some illegal shit you contracted to do. And 2) Was the contract for full payment whether you succeeded or not? Because that would have been foolish on Cohen's part, wouldn't it?

Gauger said that Cohen also directed him during that time to set up a Twitter account, "Women for Cohen," which remains active today and describes Cohen as a booster of the president and a sex symbol.

Michael Cohen, a sex symbol? LOL.

Gauger's lawyer also told the Journal that Cohen promised but failed to deliver future work for the firm on behalf of the Trump campaign.

“Mr. Cohen promised but never was able to develop the business he predicted,” said attorney Charles James.

Taking the word of someone who hired you to rig something sounds like a criminally boneheaded thing to do. (Speaking of criminally boneheaded, check out this Ken White podcast where he reminds us yet again that Manafort, et al., are criminals, and therefore lies as a matter of course, which would also go a great length to explain Trump's constant lying.)

Cohen denied paying for the firm's services in cash in a statement to the Journal, but did not comment on whether the debt was paid in full.

“All monies paid to Mr. Gauger were by check,” Cohen said, according to the newspaper.

What about the boxing glove?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Cohen says Trump directed his every move.

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