MICHAEL COHEN FLIPS — AGAIN. Remember Michael Cohen? A man who was widely known as Donald Trump‘s “fixer,” Cohen was a lawyer who worked for Trump for many years before Trump first won the presidency in 2016. Then, in legal trouble, Cohen turned on Trump with a vengeance and made common cause with the collection of Resistance warriors, Democrats, NeverTrumpers, and their media allies who devoted their lives to trying to bring the president down.

It didn’t end well for Cohen. In 2018, he pleaded guilty to charges of tax evasion — he failed to pay taxes on $4,134,051 in income between 2012 and 2016 — plus defrauding banks and lying to Congress. Desperate to find a way to beat the rap, he came up with new accusations against Trump, hoping that a sympathetic Democrat in Congress might get in touch with prosecutors and help Cohen out.

In the end, Cohen’s testimony against Trump was crucial to the two most damaging cases against the former president — Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s 34 felony counts charging Trump with falsifying business records, and New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit alleging that Trump overstated the value of his properties when seeking loans. Both cases were flimsy and political. In the Bragg case, a deep-blue Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on all 34 counts, and in the James case, a pliant Manhattan judge found Trump liable for fraud and ordered........

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