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originally posted by: Wayfarer
originally posted by: GuidedKill
originally posted by: Wayfarer
originally posted by: GuidedKill
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: GuidedKill
Yeah, a couple of small transfers seem to be to another Michael Cohen. Does that make the confirmed payments incorrect?
It sure doesn't help him or his documents credibility does it??
Well not unless you're with her then it's the "smoking gun" right?
So what you're saying is "blah blah blah, I don't care if Cohen/Trump raped women or stole a billion dollars or sold the country to Russia or whatever, Hillary did something bad once and that's all that matters to me, MAGA!"
Got it.
I'm saying show me proof of the rape, theft and sale of the country....Because the person you mentioned Clintons) have been connected with evidence of everything you just listed.
So show me the proof or stop crying about it being her turn.
You first. At this rate, its far more likely Mueller is going to make you eat crow than you are going to be able to dredge up anything non InfoWars related....
Pretty standard fare for the lying left.
Promise kept on Iran deal
Dem lead gone in November election polling
biggest monthly budget surplus of all time
hostages released from NK
lowest unemployment rate in a generation
food stamps enrolment down by 1.3m in just two months
African American community questioning why they vote Democrat
Trump supporters winning GOP primaries
So again, I am fine with an investigation here.
My question is what crime is being suggested that may have been committed?
Surely that is a prequisite for an investigation
To me, pay for play seems to imply a company gave Cohen something, and then got access to trump for their money.
Is there proof these groups that paid cohen got access to trump?
Before President Donald Trump made headlines with his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday, the president and his advisers met behind-the-scenes with European business leaders, including two pharma executives, to try and gin up more U.S. investment.
The president took a dinner with Novartis' CEO-to-be Vas Narasimhan, Bayer CEO Werner Baumann and other executives to "share our economic success story and to encourage them to continue to invest in America," National Economic Council director Gary Cohn told reporters at a White House briefing ahead of the trip.
"The attendees run companies that have sizable footprints in the United States," Cohn said. "They have invested in our economy, and we want them to continue to do so and encourage others to join them."
A definition of lying : "something intended or serving to convey a false impression" You are guilty - just read the text on the two images in the OP. Liar.
Fulfilled.
getting my hopes up? No. I leave that to Democrats as they go through their laundry list of imagined crimes to overturn an election result.
Hundreds of paid GOP operatives descended upon South Florida to protest the state's recounts,[1] with at least half a dozen of the demonstrators at Miami-Dade paid by George W. Bush's recount committee.[2] Several of these protesters were identified as Republican staffers and a number later went on to jobs in the Bush administration.[3]
You've made a lot of conclusions in your thread and subsequent posts, with no basis for them. Like I said, I find the timing to be interesting.
The curious relationship between one of the world’s biggest drug makers and President Trump’s personal lawyer began early last year when Michael Cohen, a longtime fixer for the president, reached out to Novartis’s then-chief executive officer Joe Jimenez, promising help gaining access to Trump and influential officials in the new administration, according to an employee inside Novartis familiar with the matter.
Jimenez took the call and then instructed his team to reach a deal with Cohen. A one-year contract worth $1.2 million was signed with Cohen in February 2017. The company’s hope was that Cohen could help it navigate a bevy of uncertain issues facing the drug maker — from potential changes to the Affordable Care Act and tax reform to navigating reimbursement challenges for medicines.
“He reached out to us,” the Novartis employee said, providing STAT with the company’s version of events as it scrambles to contain the fallout from being entangled in the investigations surrounding Trump and his inner circle, including Cohen. “With a new administration coming in, basically, all the traditional contacts disappeared and they were all new players. We were trying to find an inroad into the administration. Cohen promised access to not just Trump, but also the circle around him. It was almost as if we were hiring him as a lobbyist.”
originally posted by: theantediluvian
While it's not known exactly what crimes the FBI is currently investigating Cohen for, the bombshell dropped by Stormy Daniel's attorney sure appears to have blasted open a gaping hole exposing an influence peddling scheme launched by Michael Cohen shortly after his boss won the election.
This is all still developing but I'll focus specifically on what's come out from Novartis through a series of official statements to the press and from sources within the company. The Avenatti document detailed four payments made to Michael Cohen's Essential Consulting in one account. Those were four monthly payments of $99,980 — $20 short of $100k — made in late 2017 and early 2018. However, it has come to light that Novartis had a year-long contract with Cohen to pay him $100k a month that began the month after the inauguration and lasting into February of 2018.
Stormy lawyer: Transactions suggest Cohen was 'selling access' to Trump
"In February 2017, shortly after the election of President Trump, Novartis entered into a one-year agreement with Essential Consultants. With the recent change in administration, Novartis believed that Michael Cohen could advise the company as to how the Trump administration might approach certain U.S. healthcare policy matters, including the Affordable Care Act," the company said in a statement.
"The agreement was for a term of one year, and paid Essential Consultants 100,000 USD per month. In March 2017, Novartis had its first meeting with Michael Cohen under this agreement. Following this initial meeting, Novartis determined that Michael Cohen and Essential Consultants would be unable to provide the services that Novartis had anticipated related to U.S. healthcare policy matters and the decision was taken not to engage further.
"As the contract unfortunately could only be terminated for cause, payments continued to be made until the contract expired by its own terms in February 2018."
You read that right folks — $100k dollars a month. To do what? According to Novartis, it was to give them insight into how Trump might approach the ACA and other healthcare related issues. G-T-F-O! While they don't come right out and confirm the total, a little deduction and some simple math tells us that Cohen likely received $1.2 million for a single meeting. Eat your heart out Bill Clinton's Moscow speech — you ain't got nuttin' on an hour with the highly influential Michael Dean Cohen.
If it wasn't abundantly clear already, a source from Novartis told NBC that MichaelClintonCohen couldn't wait to blow up the phones of various entities trying to cash in biggly on President Dennison's election victory.
The senior Novartis official told NBC News that Cohen made the first move.
"He contacted us after the new administration was in place," the official said. "He was promising access to the new administration."
No wonder in the run up to the election, he was using his own money to pay off women Trump had cheated on Melania with. Michael Cohen was just investing in the opportunity for himself and the other greedy little Trump swamp piggies looking to line up at the trough to gorge their banks accounts on money made selling access to the easily influenced Trump. Hell, he probably got the idea from Paul Manafort working for free with plans for selling access to the Russians. Or maybe it's just a case of sleaze thinking alike.
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You would have to be an idiot to think tRump New nothing about this. He is the scum of the earth.
You would have to be an idiot to think tRump New nothing about this. He is the scum of the earth.
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: hoss53
You would have to be an idiot to think tRump New nothing about this. He is the scum of the earth.
Well thought out and informative stance.
This is the reasons so many folks that dance around the middle have to defend Trump despite the disdain they may feel. Lacking any credible argument, stance or logic you claim the intellectual superiority. Good luck with that.
See, I too don't think Trump wasn't also privy to at least some of the information of how this shook out. However without facts, it's just an opinion.
originally posted by: carewemust
Hear that Avennati owes 5 million back taxes. Maybe get a loan from russians?