‘You Stole From The Trump Organization, Correct?’: Michael Cohen Hands Trump Prosecution Another Terrible Day
Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s New York ‘hush money’ trial may have colluded with the Biden administration, but apparently none of the galaxy brains involved in the case thought far enough to consider that their star witness, Michael Cohen, might cause their ‘case’ to implode.
To wit: last week, Cohen was ‘dog walked‘ through several lies he’s told over the past few years.
Today: Cohen admitted he stole from the Trump Organization.
During cross-examination, Cohen admitted that he lied to former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg in 2017 about how much he needed to be reimbursed for a payment to RedFinch, a tech company that provided services to the Trump Org.
While he asked for $50,000, Cohen only paid the company $20,000 – pocketing the difference.
“You stole from the Trump Organization, correct?” defense attorney Todd Blanche asked.
“Yes sir,” Cohen replied.
This just got interesting: Michael Cohen is now admitting to stealing money from our company.
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) May 20, 2024
When Blanche then asked if he ever repaid the Trump Organization, or “Did you ever have to plead guilty to larceny?” Cohen replied, “No sir.”
Nonetheless, Cohen asked for the 50K reimbursement from the Trump Organization.
— Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) May 20, 2024
So you stole? Yes, Cohen admits.
And you’ve never paid the Trump Organization back for the money you stole from it? No.
You lied to Weisselberg about the amount owed to you for Redfinch? Yes
Cohen had asked for the $50,000 reimbursement alongside the $130,000 he paid personally to Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election for a nondisclosure agreement.
The former attorney then said he went to the bank and took out cash over several days, totaling about $20,000 before keeping it in a small brown paper bag. Then he gave it to the tech firm, he testified, adding he never gave the full $50,000 amount.
The Trump Organization ultimately repaid Mr. Cohen $50,000 and then doubled that payment in a practice known as “grossing up” to cover taxes he’d incur by declaring the money as income rather than a tax-free reimbursement.
Mr. Blanche noted that despite Mr. Cohen’s guilty pleas in 2018 to federal charges including a campaign finance violation for the hush money payment and unrelated tax evasion and bank fraud crimes, he’d never been charged with stealing from President Trump’s company. –Epoch Times
They really aren’t sending their best…
He’s not only a liar but a thief https://t.co/omudhKMfuY
— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) May 20, 2024
Ron Paul: The Vietnamization of Ukraine
As Ukraine’s defeat in the war moves closer, the neocons are desperate to draw the US further into the fight. Over the weekend, former US State Department official Victoria Nuland told ABC News that the US must help facilitate Ukrainian missile attacks deep inside Russian territory. The Biden Administration has to this point avoided involvement in such attacks, likely because Russian president Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia will strike any facility that supplies or facilitates strikes inside of Russia, wherever they may be.
It’s a clear warning from a nuclear power, but as Nuland and her fellow neocons see their Ukraine project failing, they demand escalation. This is just what they did in their previous disastrous projects like the Iraq War, the attacks on Syria and Libya, and the 20-year occupation of Afghanistan. For them the failure is never because it was a bad idea in the first place, but that not enough lives and resources were poured into that bad idea to create a good outcome.
But Russia is no Iraq nor is it Libya. This time they are playing with World War III and nuclear destruction and no one in DC seems concerned.
Last Thursday the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Charles Q. Brown, said that NATO trainers deployed within Ukraine was inevitable. “We’ll get there eventually, over time,” he said. This, of course, is exactly how we got the Vietnam War, but Russia in 2024 is hardly late -1950s Vietnam. Russia of today is a country that can fight back and can project military power all the way to the source, which means the United States.
Is Nuland’s Ukraine project worth dying in a nuclear war over?
The whole US involvement in this proxy war has been based on lie after lie. They said we had to help Ukraine defeat Russia because democracy itself was at stake. Then Ukrainian president Zelensky cancelled elections, so they told us we have to help Ukraine defeat Russia because Putin won’t stop there – he’ll soon be marching through Berlin, London, and maybe even New York!
Doesn’t it remind you of how the neocons were warning us that Saddam was going to attack the US mainland with drones and that he was operating mobile weapons labs? Anything to get the public on board for their war.
The fact is the neocons and warmongers lie constantly. They will do whatever it takes to get their wars and sadly we do not have an independent media in the US to challenge them on their lies. Our media is so closely tied to the military-industrial complex that it is also a stakeholder in war profits, so they aren’t about to rock the boat.
Anyone who thinks we cannot get sucked into another war like we were with George W. Bush’s lie that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction is not paying attention. It is happening again, in real time.
The fact is we live in a deeply corrupt society dominated by individuals who do not believe in truth. When you don’t believe in truth you will have no qualms about manipulating others to do your will. So unless they are stopped, neocons like Nuland will demand more attacks on Russia, more US troops in Ukraine, more escalation. Until Russia fights back. Then it will all be over. Is this what we want?
This article first appeared at RonPaulInstitute.org.
Warmonger Victoria Nuland Pushes For Strikes On Russian Bases
ABC News’ Martha Raddatz talked with ex-Biden administration Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland about the war between Russia and Ukraine on Sunday.
During the interview, Nuland claimed America needs to give EVEN MORE military support to Ukraine since Russia is clearly winning the fight.
She told Raddatz, “They need to be able to stop these air attacks that are coming from bases inside Russia. So, I think there’s also a question of whether we, The United States and our allies, ought to give them more help in hitting Russian bases which we’ve not been willing to do.”
Asked if she thinks Ukraine should strike military bases inside Russia, Nuland confirmed she does and blamed Russia for “escalating” the war.
Raddatz pointed out the Biden administration believes Ukraine striking Russian bases would escalate the war and drag the U.S. further into the conflict.
“So, why do you think that’s a good idea?” Raddatz bluntly asked Nuland.
The former Biden official again suggested Russia, not the U.S. or Ukraine, is escalating the war.
Nuland went on to bizarrely claim Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to “restore the Soviet Union” and that he’s “willing to sacrifice the future of Ukraine and the Russian people” for his “crazy imperial ambition.”
She added, “I think the Covid period when he was in isolation just made him more and more paranoid.”
Regarding Republicans and the millions of American citizens who don’t support the country funding Ukraine’s fight, Nuland promoted the unsupported theory that Putin won’t stop at Ukraine and will begin invading NATO countries next.
The relentless warmonger also pointed out the military-industrial complex is making a fortune off the war, bragging the weapons manufacturers supplying Ukraine with weapons employ people in 30 U.S. states.
Internet users roasted the globalist warhawk:
“Queen of Darkness” Victoria Nuland is back, demanding that the US openly facilitate strikes by Ukraine on targets inside Russia — something the Biden Administration had previously insisted would never happen. A once-unfathomable escalation, which now barely raises an eyebrow pic.twitter.com/11BF95xO7C
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) May 19, 2024
WAR: Disgraced warmonger Victoria Nuland is calling to direct strikes against Russia. She is desperate to have US troops in Eastern Europe to protect her interests in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/Prf5nldxu2
— @amuse (@amuse) May 20, 2024
ARREST Victoria Nuland for Biological War Crimes, Treason, Genocide and using CIA Colour Revolutions to overthrow Foreign Governments.
— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) May 20, 2024
Obama’s 4th Branch of Government requires complete decimation. pic.twitter.com/MatVate09K
This crazy woman wants us to attack Russia.
— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellUSA) May 20, 2024
If you’re one of those people with a Ukrainian flag in your bio I hope you’re ready to send your own kids to fight in Ukraine.
Because it will happen if Nuland gets what she wants. https://t.co/pl0Kk7myZj
Oh, look, war loving Victoria Nuland wants America to help Ukraine target bases inside Russian territory.
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) May 20, 2024
Is there a more evil woman on planet Earth than this neocon psychopath? pic.twitter.com/0FBGj0GDqf
Congo Coup? African Nation Says 3 Americans Involved In Thwarted Takeover Attempt
Reports out of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) allege three U.S. citizens participated in a plot to attack the nation’s presidential palace and eventually take over the country.
The footage below is being shared online, reportedly showing some of the Americans being arrested by the Congolese Army.
BREAKING? CIA Agents arrested in the CONGO!
— Syrian Girl ?? (@Partisangirl) May 19, 2024
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) armed forces repelled an attempted coup d’etat involving Congolese and foreign fighters on Sunday morning, a DRC army spokesperson said in a televised address. The army announces the arrest of… pic.twitter.com/AB48ngn2D1
The moment Christian Malanga Son and an American Man were captured by the Republican Guard after their aborted coup d’état in Congo ??. They hid near the river so they could cross late at night to Brazzaville ??. pic.twitter.com/RRjM3XXEB9
— Typical African (@Joe__Bassey) May 20, 2024
CBS News reports, “The Democratic Republic of Congo’s army said it foiled a coup attempt early Sunday and arrested the perpetrators, including several foreigners, following attacks on the presidential palace and the residence of a close ally of Congo’s president that left three people dead in the capital, Kinshasa. Officials said three U.S. nationals were among those behind the alleged plot, but their identities and whereabouts remained unclear Monday morning.”
In total, fifty people were arrested for taking part in the failed coup d’ etat that was initiated by opposition leader Christian Malanga.
According to the New York Post, Malanga was shot and killed during the attack on government buildings.
At least two police officers also died after being shot in the melee.
One of the American men being arrested in the footage above is said to be Malanga’s son.
President Felix Tshisekedi was being targeted in the assault, with Christian Malanga saying in a social media video just before he was killed, “Felix, you’re out. We are coming for you.”
The American ambassador to the DRC issued a message about the incident on X, writing, “I am shocked by the events of this morning and very concerned by reports of American citizens allegedly involved. Please be assured that we will cooperate with the DRC authorities to the fullest extent as they investigate these criminal acts and hold accountable any U.S. citizen involved in criminal acts.”
Je suis choquée par les événements de ce matin et très préoccupée par les rapports faisant état de citoyens américains prétendument impliqués. Soyez assurés que nous coopérerons avec les autorités de la RDC dans toute la mesure du possible alors qu’elles enquêtent sur ces actes…
— Ambassadeur Lucy Tamlyn (@USAmbDRC) May 19, 2024
This appears to be the third hit on a world leader this week as the President of Iran was killed in a helicopter crash over the weekend and the Prime Minister of Slovakia was shot by an attempted assassin last Wednesday.
Doctor Discusses Study Showing Strokes & Death Following mRNA Covid Injection
On Thursday Dr. John Campbell analyzed a medical case study from Harvard Medical School which chronicled deadly brain damage, specifically cerebral ischemia (insufficient blood flow to the brain) caused by the Moderna mRNA Covid vaccinations.
“This could not be a more serious report,” Campbell said.
The doctor discussed brain scan images from the study which showed dark areas of the brain, indicating a lack of blood flow to those regions due to blood backing up in other regions, causing over-pressure and under-pressure in different parts of the brain.
“24 hrs after receiving her first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, a 30-year-old female developed severe headache. Three weeks later she was admitted with subacute headache and confusion,” the case study said in the ‘Case Summary’ section. “Imaging initially showed scattered cortical thrombosis with an elevated opening pressure on lumbar puncture. An external ventricular drain was placed, but she continued to have elevated intracranial pressure. Ultimately, she required a hemicraniectomy, but intractable cerebral edema resulted in her death. Pathology was consistent with thrombosis and associated inflammatory response.”
The doctor explained how the medical team working on the vaccine victim opened up her head after trying many other techniques and modalities of treatment.
“So it sounds like what they did here was they, to try and get the pressure down, they actually took away some of the side of the bone over the scull to try and get the pressure down, pretty drastic,” he said.
Campbell talked about how the vaccine victim already had Covid, meaning she should have had natural immunity, and that she should not have been vaccinated given that fact and her young age.
Dr. Campbell explained that the researchers don’t know why the pressure inside the vaccine victim’s head was so high, but it may have been due to cerebral auto-regularity function (the brain regulating it’s own blood supply).
Dr. Peter McCullough also discussed this case study on his Substack.
“We are becoming accustomed to unexpected death after COVID-19 among young persons who have taken one or more injections of the COVID-19 vaccine. It is important to realize that not all deaths after vaccination are cardiac,” McCullough said.
Lastly, Campbell discussed how the pharmaceutical industry is building mRNA factories around the world to manufacture this novel gene therapy technology at a scale which can regularly vaccinate the entire global population.
Many have begun to refer to the Covid gene therapy injections as ‘lethal injections’.
Remember we have stupid people that will do anything to make u get a lethal injection for something stupid like this pic.twitter.com/8QWjliezZa
— ??MidwestBadAss?? (@Punchy_Playz) May 12, 2024
People still trying to reconstruct their lives after receiving the lethal injection. pic.twitter.com/gBZpWcvrUu
— theCULLhasbegun (@BruceLe53509778) May 12, 2024
And this poor lady lost her baby to the lethal injection after being advised by her doctor that it was highly recommended to get one. pic.twitter.com/rhglZvt3aK
— theCULLhasbegun (@BruceLe53509778) May 13, 2024
In related news, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control Robert Redfield admitted that the Covid vaccines cause massive side effects.
The Covid shots are known to increase in lethality after repeated doses, increase Covid infection rates, result in reproductive destruction, cause miscarriages, autoimmune disorders in the thyroid, as well as deadly headaches, seizures and heart inflammation in addition to a multitude of serious ailments seen in massive population studies and contain hundreds of times the allowable levels of DNA contamination, leading to mutagenic effects.
The CDC recommends all Americans receive their Covid shot, and that young children receive extra.
BREAKING: Former Head Of CDC Confesses To COVID Injections Causing Massive Damage
Julian Assange Wins Right To Challange US Extradition Case
London’s High Court has ruled that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange can bring a new appeal against extradition to US Assange has been granted the right to a fresh appeal against a previous ruling that had […]
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