Left loves to make accusations of conservatives for circulating conspiracy theories that aren’t true. On Sunday, however, SMNC will be broadcast live. Michael Cohen — Donald Trump’s lawyer-turned-rabid antagonist — floated a wild conspiracy theory that could have been concocted by those thinking moon landing was staged.
Jonathan Capehart: Sunday Show, guest host Michael Steele — the former RNC Chairman turned Never Trumper and member of the disgraced Lincoln Project — asked Cohen why Trump allegedly kept top-secret documents at Mar-a-Lago.
Cohen replied:
HYou’ll use it to free yourself from prison. This is a method to exort America. You can turn your head to hear, If you want to put me in prisonIf you follow him, I’m referring to his children.My loyal supporters will be there for meYou don’t know anyone who may have copies of any information. I will take these documents. These documents will be sent to Iran and China as well as North Korea, North Korea, Russia, and North Korea. You know what else? Are you going to bring me down? You can take the whole nation down.
Cohen’s theory is absurd! Threatening to give top-secret documents America’s enemies would amount to treason. Trump could face an infinitely greater punishment if he is found guilty of improperly taking and storing documents at Mar-a-Lago.
Cohen suggests that Trump might tell authorities, according to Cohen’s theory that Trump has given top-secret copies of documents to “loyal supporter”
Trump would admit to the Espionage Act violation by distributing these documents. If he had the documents ever released to our enemies it would be considered treason per se and could lead to the federal death penalty.
Cohen’s challenge is not to be taken lightly. Cohen was also agreed to by Steele, that Trump does not care about his country. Steele concluded the segment by saying that he appreciated Cohen and adding that You should always keep the receipts. Cohen had only one receipt to prove that he was obsessed with Trump.
Notable: Cohen started the segment by saying that Trump’s entire circle would “flip” in his favor. Cohen did his Trump impression and said,“It’s like watching a gymnastics show, there’s so much flipping.”
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You can find the transcription here.
MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart hosts the Sunday Show
08/21/22
Eastern 10:28MICHAEL COHEN. In your last segment, Mike, you spoke about flipping. I’ll tell you what this means. It’ll take a lot of flipping. Donald, let me sing it! [imitates Trump]It’s like watching a gymnastics show. [STEELE LAUGHS]That’s what really is going on. They all know the truth about me. All of them don’t want the idea of going to prison. You have to think about it. [Again imitates Trump]Mike: “There will be so much flipping. You can’t imagine.”
(….)
Eastern, 10:32
MICHAEL STEELE (Minutes left): This is a very important question for me. Given what we now know about Mar-a-Lago’s FBI search, you have spent years within Donald Trumper — Donald Trump’s — world. So you see — Based on all you know, why would he want to preserve those highly classified documents — at Mar-a-Lago.
COHEN: Well, It’s going to be used as a card that gets you out of prison. This is a method to exort America. Turn around and say “If you want to put me in prison, if you go after” — I mean, he’ll even say his children, simply, after him — “I will have my loyal supportersYou don’t know anyone who may have copies of any information. I will take these documents. They will be released to Iran, China, North Korea and Russia. You know what else? Do you want me to go down? “I’ll bring the entire country down!” Because, remember, and I’ve said with to you 1,000 times, Mike. Donald Trump isn’t concerned about this country.
STEELE: He doesn’t.
COHEN: He does not care about anybody or anything else than him.
STELE: It’s all right. Michael Cohen: Always bring your receipts brother. Appreciate you.