Much ado

Lemmesee, Manafort and Cohen get rung up on the same day for things largely dealing with tax fraud.  They are (were) both millionaires several times over. So, why not just pay the tax? In one case Cohen saved a million by not paying.  He made 4 million and skipped a million dollar tax payment.  So, one from four leaves, what, lemmesee, 3. Three million dollars isn’t enough?  WTF? 

The news is all up in a roar about Cohen’s payment to a couple of “ladies” at a candidate’s behest. The candidate is obviously PDJT.  But who the hell didn’t already know this?  

Well, Cohen had maintained that PDJT didn’t know anything about the payments, now he’s saying that Trump did.  So he’s lying right?  Has to be, because both positions cannot be true at the same time. 

Here’s what happened.  Cohen maintains that PDJT didn’t know about the payments right up to the point that Cohen needs to cut a deal to get a reduced sentence for his tax fraud conviction – then he’s asked to implicate the president for a deal and cheerily does so. 

I don’t know what PDJT knew about the payments and neither does anyone on TV or writing about it right now.  I do know Cohen changed his story, recorded his clients and is an admitted tax cheat. So my thinking is he’s a bit a tainted. 

All that said, if someone wants to accept a payment to keep certain things quiet and the other party is willing to pay, as long as the agreement is not obstructing some other underlying crime - what’s the big deal? 

But Lex, I proves PDJT is not a saint.  It actually proves nothing.  But let’s say the payments are made for good reason, read the post just under.  We knew all of this before Nov 8, 2016. 

So PDJT paid women to be discrete.  Had Billbo Billyboy Clinton paid Monica Lewinsky to keep her mouth shut – literally and figuratively – he’d not be the laughing stock of the world. 

Well what have we learned:

Pay your taxes 

Lawyers can be scumbags

NDAs don’t work

Wyle E. Coyote, for the 10,00^th time, is set to drop an anvil on the Road Runner.  My guess is it will land on the Coyote’s foot for the 10,000^th time.