Trump's behavior in Helsinki convinced Cohen to flip on him

[knapplc]

It's an explanation. Maybe not a great one, but it's something. The comments below the excuse raise some good points as well.

 

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Cohen’s lawyer claims the flip happened because of the Trump-Putin meeting

 

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer and fixer, effectively turned on his former boss on Tuesday by implicating him in federal crimes related to illegal campaign contributions. That was shocking, since Cohen had earlier claimed he would take a bullet for Trump.

 

So why did Cohen flip? Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, offered a surprising answer on Wednesday: Trump’s actions during his July meeting in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin were what finally convinced him to turn on Trump.

 

That’s, uh, interesting.

 

Davis told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that “Helsinki was a significant turning point” for Cohen, “as he worried about the future of our country with the president of the United States aligning with somebody who everybody in his intelligence community ... said that Putin interfered and tried to help Trump get elected.”

 

“That shook up Mr. Cohen,” Davis added.

 

Many bristled at Trump’s actions in Helsinki. Among other things, he refused to criticize Putin for Russia’s interference in the 2016 US presidential election and seemed to side with Putin over US intelligence agencies when the Russian leader said his country didn’t meddle.

 

 

But if Helsinki did in fact disturb Cohen to the point that he decided to abandon the man for whom he worked more than a decade — and it’s a very big if — it would prove a remarkable turnaround. After all, Cohen stood by his longtime friend and former boss when Trump:

 

• revealed highly classified intelligence to top Russian diplomats
• lambasted Congress for wanting to impose sanctions on Moscow over Russia’s election interference
• defended Putin when asked about the Russian leader’s penchant for killing dissidents
• equated US intelligence officials to Nazis because they may have collected information about his ties to Russia

 

None of those moments led Cohen to break with Trump. Instead, he waited until federal investigators were closing in to finally discover where his moral red line was.

 

 

[Guy Chamberlin]

Lanny Davis is an interesting choice for Cohen's lawyer.

 

I'm sure Trump loyalists are already connecting those dots.

[TGHusker]

Helsinki  should have convinced most (or should I say ALL) reasonable persons to abandon Trump.  It was too apparent on where Trump gets his bread buttered and who issues the orders. 

 

Lanny Davis is a high profile guy - likes the limelight  - he's had to work with the Clinton's so doing this gig is a marriage made in scum land. 

[Moiraine]

I kinda doubt Cohen has that much of a conscience. He had to have already known who Trump was.