{"id":40163,"date":"2019-03-01T13:52:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=40163"},"modified":"2019-03-02T18:46:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T23:46:02","slug":"what-are-the-presidential-candidates-saying-and-doing-and-oh-yeah-michael-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=40163","title":{"rendered":"What are the presidential candidates saying and doing? 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A couple of impressions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The difference in capacity, intelligence, diversity and preparation between the Democratic and Republican members was striking, wasn&#8217;t it?<\/li>\n<li>Most of the Republicans spoke with southern accents.<\/li>\n<li>Of course I&#8217;ve been avidly reading the Times&#8217;s stories, editorials and the readers&#8217; comments to both, from which I&#8217;ve gathered a couple of things. First, an unusually small number of Trump supporters wrote comments. Second, the tenor of the anti-Trump comments has shifted from outrage and despair to a clear reckoning that Trump is and has always been a crime boss both in his business and in the White House. Passionate readers seem to have opened their eyes and brains wide at the panorama of monstrosity to which we&#8217;re all witnesses. The condemnation of the collaborationist Republican Party was particularly remarkable.<\/li>\n<li>The few Trumpists who <em>did<\/em> post (very short) letters went back to their &#8220;no collusion, no collusion,&#8221; declaration. They were responding, I presume, to Cohen&#8217;s statement that he personally did not know of Russian collusion. They forgot several things: Cohen had no direct involvement with Russian dealings and, indeed, he and the committee had been limited in the areas of discussion by, I read, the Mueller investigation. But Cohen talked directly about overhearing the Roger Stone-Trump phone call on the Wikileaks email dump. Which is, of course, collusion &#8212; an offer of &#8220;damaging&#8221; info about a political opponent from an adversary nation, an offer which was not reported immediately or ever to the FBI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the remote case you&#8217;ve not been following the 2020 presidential race (I&#8217;m teasing you &#8212; who could manage to follow everything?), 538, bless its heart, is. Here&#8217;s what they launched today. 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