Even Fake News Cannot Hide the Fact that Michael Cohen, Lanny Davis, and Hillary Clinton Are All Woven from the Same Sleazy Cloth

WHAT IS THE REAL NEWS TODAY, OR ANY DAY. It's becoming harder and harder to separate real news from the Fake stuff that's put out to destroy Trump. A look at some of the Fake vs the Real will show just how biased and propagandsit mainstream news has become. In the age of hating President Trump, American journalism has ceased to be journalism. It has become the Democrat Party's propaganda arm. There are no standards for objective reporting. The mad rush to destroy Trump has led cable networks, as well as mainstream news, to resort to Fake news and innuendo. ProgDem commentators at CNN and MSNBC, pretending to be journalists, announced after the President’s news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin that President Trump disgusted them. This was not journalistic reporting of events . It was aggressively negative anti-Trump harangue disguised as journalism. • • • RUSSIA HAS DIRT ON TRUMP -- FAKE. Let's look at a Saturday Bloomberg article that follows the Fake news pattern of trying to bring down President Trump with accusations about 2016 campaign "collusion" with Russia. Bloomberg states : "President Donald Trump faces potential legal and political danger if it’s proven he knew in advance about a meeting his son and campaign aides had with Russians said to be promising dirt on Hillary Clinton, according to former federal prosecutors." • Here's how Bloomberg weaves the latest Russia "collusion" theory. Bloomberg reported that Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen added an "explosive twist" to the famous June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower by saying that he is willing to testify that he and others were present when Trump was informed of an offer of material detrimental to Clinton ahead of the June 2016 meeting. Bloomberg is quoting CNN, which in turn was quoting what Bloomberg and CNN called "people with knowledge of the matter" -- those infamous "unnamed sources. • Bloomberg then says that an element of mystery about the unnamed sources is added because Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny Davis -- a Clinton inner circle campaign operative who helped Bill Clinton survive his White House scandals as President -- said in a statement to MSNBC, “I have to wonder why the Trump people would put that out. It was not from us.” Bloomberg then reminds its readers that the Trump Tower meeting has "become a focus of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether anyone in Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia to interfere in the last U.S. presidential election." NOTE how we have moved from "collusion," not a crime, to "conspiring," a crime if proved. • Bloomberg then states : "Trump and his current lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, deny that Trump knew about the meeting beforehand and say Cohen is lying. 'I did NOT know of the meeting with my son, Don jr.,' the President tweeted Friday morning. 'Sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam.' ” Bloomberg tries to downgrade Trump's categorical denial by saying : "Trump has said he didn’t know about the Trump Tower meeting until a year later, when he dictated a statement on behalf of his son that the discussion was primarily about a dispute over adoptions of Russian children. That turned out to be misleading at best after revelations that the meeting’s organizer had pledged damaging information from the Russians on Clinton but the participants ended up discussing relief from US sanctions on Russia." • Then comes, in the absense of evidence, the Bloomberg character assassination of President Trump : "While there’s no crime in lying to the public, Trump could face fresh legal jeopardy in the cases Mueller is building alleging conspiracy with Russia to interfere in the election and on efforts to obstruct his investigation, said Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor who is now a partner at the Thompson Coburn LLP law firm in Chicago." NOTE that Bloomberg has already 'convicted' President Trump of "lying to the public." • Who is Renato Mariotti?? He is a Chicago Southside Democrat, former federal prosecutor and, according to The Windy City Media Group, "an especially vocal critic of the Trump administration since the current President took office." The Windy City Media Group is the Chicago area LGBTQ media group, although Bloomberg doesn't mention that. • Mariotti ran for Illinois attorney general and lost, getting 4% of the votes in the March Democrat primary. He is now described by the Chicago Tribune as "a go-to source for journalists and twitter users seeking to make sense of Robert Mueller's investigation of alleged collusion" between Trump and the Russians during the 2016 campaign. Mariotti is a legal expert on CNN and MSNBC and writes for Politico and The Hill. • Mariotti, because there is No Evidence, chooses to create a crime out of the air, telling Bloomberg : "Don’t think of crimes as something committed at a specific time and date. Typically a white-collar crime is something that happens over a long period of time and it involves many different steps.” NOTE that we have now moved in one Bloomberg article from a "reported" Cohen statement, offered by unnamed sources, that he is "willing" to testify about when Presudent Trump knew about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya to Trump being labeled a possible "white collar" criminal. • THAT is FAKE news -- biased publishing of innuendos and allegations without evidence in order to make President Trump look like he is guilty of Russian collusion and conspiracy. • Bloomberg then goes into the "Quick Take" mode, asking : "That raises an important question about Cohen’s claims : Who has more credibility, the President, or his former lawyer?" Bloomberg seems to support the Trump side at first, using an apparent interview with Mimi Rocah, a former Manhattan federal prosecutor -- she is also an NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst, not mentioned by Bloomberg -- but watch how her analysis slides into anti-Trump innuendo. Rocah says : "“I would not place my faith in Michael Cohen’s credibility. The reason prosecutors win so many convictions is that they never rely on just one person. You need other evidence. Cohen’s claim may be a smoking gun, but how do you back that up? You look at the surrounding evidence and circumstances. You see Trump saying, around the same day as the meeting, we’ll have a major speech to discuss the Clintons. You look at the fact that he had a long-standing relationship with the Agalarovs, who helped set up the meeting." Rocah adds : "Prosecutors also ask juries to use their common sense. Does it make sense that Trump knew about the meeting? You look at all the circumstances together and use your common sense." Should Cohen’s claims turn out to be true, Rocah said, Trump could have legal exposure : “If Trump knew in advance that the Russians had stolen information, and understood its importance, that puts him at risk, in legal jeopardy, of being part of the conspiracy that the Russians have been charged with to defraud the US.” • NOTE Rocah's fast-and-loose playing with sometimes false innuendo. The "long-standing relationship with the Agalorovs" that Rocah alludes to is this, according to Abby Vesoulis, who wrote in TIME on June 26, 2018 : "Many Americans first learned about Russian pop singer Emin Agalarov from his role in setting up the infamous Trump Tower meeting involving a Kremlin-connected lawyer and top members of the Trump campaign. Now he has a music video about it. The English-language video features Agalarov singing and dancing alongside actors portraying Donald Trump, his daughter Ivanka, Hillary Clinton, porn star Stormy Daniels, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The various characters in the video can be seen handing mysterious envelopes and possibly stacks of cash to each other. In one particularly suggestive scene in the video for 'You Got Me Good,' Agalarov and Trump party with a group of Russian beauty pageant contestants on a hotel bed. 'You got me so good, you really got me so good,' Agalarov sings." TIME's Vesoulis says the Agalarovs’ relationship with the President : "goes back to at least 2013, when Emin and his wealthy father, Aras, worked with the Trumps to prepare for the Miss Universe Pageant in Russia. That year, Trump also made a cameo in another one of Agalarov’s music videos alongside actual 2013 Miss Universe contestants. Agalarov’s publicist, Rob Goldstone, was the person who contacted Donald Trump Jr. informing him that he could arrange a meeting in which Russian sources could give the family intel that would 'incriminate' former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to which, Trump Jr. replied, 'If it’s what you say I love it.' Donald Trump Jr. has since testified that the meeting was fruitless." So, the "long-standing relationship" was a publicity video for Trump's Miss Universe contest in Moscow. Period. • Rob Goldstone, whose name was also dropped by Rocah, actually did arrange the June 2016 Trump Tower meetign at the insistence of his longtime client, Azerbaijani Russian pop singer Emin Agalarov, who later tried to persuade him that the firestorm around the British publicist’s brokering of the meeting at Trump Tower was “mega PR” : “This is making you one of the most famous people in the world.” PR man Goldstone later told a US Senate committee that Agalarov had insisted he help set up the meeting despite his own misgivings : “I believed it was a bad idea and that we shouldn’t do it. And I gave the reason for that being that I’m a music publicist. Politics, I knew nothing about.” Goldstone's testimony supports the claim of Donald Trump Jr that the meeting failed to live up to the hype, discussing adoption laws rather than than ammunition against Clinton : any attempt at collusion was torpedoed by incompetence. Goldstone told the Senate committee, in a transcript recently released : “I thought, OK, maybe here’s the smoking gun or whatever it is that’s coming. And then the next thing I start hearing about adoption and sanctions and the impact that that is having on adoption and Americans. And that is when I completely tuned out and was like we’re having a meeting about adoption. I don’t get this.” He added : “On the way out, Don Jr kind of thanked me. And I said to him, I’m sorry. I’m really embarrassed by this meeting. I don’t know what that was about.” • So, we now see that Bloomberg's use of Mimi Rocah was intended to give legal expert weight to innuendo that the mainstream media has been peddling since news of the Trump Tower meeting surfaced in 2107 -- that President, then-candidate, Trump knew about the meeting, that Don Jr. set it up to help Russia derail Hillary's campaign, that the arrangements were made by Trump family "long-standing" Russian friends (if they were friends, why didn't Emin or Aras Agalarov just pick up the phone and tell Trump what they knew?? -- the answer is so obvious -- they were not friends, there was no collusion, and Goldstone, who arranged the meeting, corroborates Don Jr's version of the meeting amounting to a waste of time). But, Bloomberg and Mimi Rocah peddle the same old story -- that somehow the meeting helped Trump to win in 2016, and that it is evidence of Trump-Russia collusion. • BUT, Bloomberg was not about to give its poor readers a rest. Bloomberg then hauls out the Holy Grail Fake news argument against Trump -- who cares if the Bloomberg article up to that point had not proved even an Obama-esque 'smidgen' of collusion -- Bloomberg asserts that where there is "collusion" there is "obstruction" and obstruction, unlike collusion which is not a crime, could be the basis for impeachment. Consider the Bloomberg hatchet job. It quotes Harry Sandick, a former federal prosecutor now at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, who tells Bloomberg : "There may be an obstruction charge as well. If Cohen’s reported version is correct, 'it would make it very hard for Trump to say there was no collusion,’ he said. 'There would also be a potential obstruction charge, because he tried to prevent prosecutors from knowing what happened.” • Concerning the ProgDem mantra that collusion leads to obstruction, Sandick and Bloomberg are on the same page. Here is what Sandick told Bloomberg : "It would make it very hard for Trump to say there was no collusion. There would also be a potential obstruction charge, because he tried to prevent prosecutors from knowing what happened.” Here is Bloomberg's immediately following analysis : "While the most serious potential criminal charges relate to conspiracy and obstruction of justice, there are lesser offenses too. It’s illegal to knowingly solicit political contributions from foreign nationals, and providing stolen emails could be viewed as an 'in-kind' contribution. Enforcement of a violation depends on which agency would pursue it. If it’s the Federal Election Commission, it’s a civil matter, with the biggest penalty being a fine. The Justice Department can bring criminal charges for willful violations of federal election law, though its track record of winning convictions has been mixed. The maximum sentence for violating election laws is five years’ imprisonment, depending on the offense." • NOTE : I consider myself something of an election law expert, having written the original pro-forma federal election law that led to the establishment of the FEC, and I have to say that I have never seen the providing of emails considered as an in-kind contribution by the FEC. Sending emails to names on voter lists or members of voter groups is considered an in-kind contribution. But, there is no FEC discussion I can find that even talks about offering to give, or giving, emails to a candidate being viewed as an in-kind contribution that needs to have a value placed on it and then be reported. • Bloomberg drives its collusion-equals-obstruction-equals-impeachment point home with this : "With Democrats now favored by many analysts to win back the House of Representatives, Cohen’s reported allegations could move the needle closer to impeachment -- a possibility that Democratic leaders have downplayed so far -- and at minimum will reinvigorate efforts to investigate what happened." • • • THE BLOOMBERG ARTICLE IS JUST ONE OF MANY ANTI-TRUMP HATCHET JOBS. Googling the Trump Tower meeting, I found these headlines -- "What We Know About the Controversial 2016 Trump Tower Meeting" (TIME) // "Trump denies knowing about 2016 Russian lawyer meeting" (New Vision) // "Michael Cohen 'says Trump knew about Russia meeting in advance" (The Guardian) // "Trump denies lawyer's Russia collusion claim" (In-Depth-The Times) // "The Case for a Trump-Russia Conspiracy Just Got a Little Stronger" (The Atlantic) // "Trump denies knowing about Trump Tower meeting, disputing Cohen" (Carl Bernstein, The Hill). • Fake News Lives and the Fake mainstream media is pushing it to destroy Trump. • • • WHAT DIRT DID RUSSIA HAVE ON OBAMA? That's what the Daily Caller asked on July 18, in the midst of all the hype about Trump's supposed "collusion-conspiracy-impeachment." Freelance journalist Brett Wilkins wrote the Daily Caller piece that states : "President Donald Trump’s refusal to condemn Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 US presidential election has sparked renewed accusations from the usual liberal voices that Vladimir Putin must surely 'have dirt' on the President. Leading this chorus was House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi who tweeted : “Seriously, what does Putin have on Trump that he’s so afraid?” • Wilkins lists Trump's gestures toward Russia and Vladimir Putin : "Trump has steadfastly refused to criticize -- and has even praised -- Putin. But he’s also praised a host of far more brutal dictators and strongmen, from North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines to the Islamic fundamentalist monarchs of Saudi Arabia. No one is suggesting any of these leaders “has dirt” on Trump, and besides, the United States has for generations supported some of the world’s most repressive regimes regardless of whether a Republican or Democrat occupies the White House." • What about Barack Obama? Wilkins says this : "More importantly, even a cursory look at Barack Obama’s policies and actions regarding Russia reveals an inarguably more accommodating stance toward Moscow than Trump’s. From the outset, conservatives derided Obama for his ridiculous 'reset' button. Recall that during the 2012 presidential campaign Obama mocked Mitt Romney when the latter called Russia America’s 'number one geopolitical foe.' Obama scornfully retorted that 'the 1980s are calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years.' ' • As Wilkins notes, it was also during the 2012 campaign that Obama was caught on a hot mic suggestively promising then-Russian president Dmitry Medvedev that he would have 'more flexibility' to consider and presumably pursue pro-Moscow policies once he got re-elected. • And, Wilkins reminds us : "Even after Russia’s invasions of George and Crimea, and even after he was informed by US intelligence officials that Russia was interfering in the 2016 election, Obama’s response was very measured. Yes, he expelled 35 Russian diplomats. So did Trump, following the alleged Russian bioweapon attack in Britain earlier this year -- although Trump booted 25 more diplomats than Obama....Yes, Obama slapped sanctions on Russia in response to Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and its alleged election hacking. So did Trump, who not only upheld the previous administration’s Crimea sanctions but who also upped the ante by imposing strict new sanctions on Russian oligarchs and top government officials, all of them closely tied to Putin, in response to alleged election meddling." • What about foreign policy? Wilkins states : "Where Obama went to great lengths to avoid killing Syrian government troops and infamously reneged on his 'red line' threat there, Trump has escalated the war against Islamic State militants to include multiple bombings targeting large numbers of Assad’s troops, and Russians have been killed in combat by US troops in Syria. Trump also blew up the Iran nuclear deal, which both Obama and Russia very much wanted to continue." • Wilkins concludes : "There is also no evidence Russia has any dirt on Trump. A sober and objective examination of his record beside that of his predecessor must surely lead any reasonable observer to conclude that Barack Obama’s policies and actions were more conciliatory toward Russia than Trump’s have been....For a side that proudly touts its 'fact-based' arguments, liberals like Pelosi would do well to look at the facts and ask if maybe it’s not Trump, but rather Obama, that Russia’s got the dirt on. That last bit might sound ridiculous, but so do public proclamations in the absence of facts." • • • TRUMP SAYS THE FAKE NEWS IS PUSHING THE US TOWARD A MAJOR RUSSIA CONFRONTATION. Fox News reporter Brooke Singman wrote on July 19 that : "President Trump claimed Thursday the 'Fake News' is pushing for a 'major confrontation' with Russia....The Fake News Media wants so badly to see a major confrontation with Russia, even a confrontation that could lead to war. They are pushing so recklessly hard and hate the fact that I’ll probably have a good relationship with Putin. We are doing MUCH better than any other country!” Trump tweeted. In a second tweet, the President said : "The Fake News Media is going Crazy! They make up stories without any backup, sources or proof. Many of the stories written about me, and the good people surrounding me, are total fiction. Problem is, when you complain you just give them more publicity. But I’ll complain anyway!" President Trump also pointed out on Sunday a Cohna tweet from 2017 that says : "So proud of @DonaldJTrumpJr for being open, honest and transparent to the American people. This nonsense needs to stop! 4:53 AM - Jul 12, 2017 · Manhattan, NY." • • • LANNY DAVIS -- CLINTONITE TO THE CORE. Lanny Davis is the co-founder of the law firm of Davis Goldberg & Galper PLLC, and partner at a public relations firm. He describes himself on his website as a lawyer, crisis manager, consultant, author, and TV commentator -- here are the exact words,"Lanny represents individuals, countries, and companies in high stakes global crises, litigation, government investigations and crisis management." • Law professor Jonathan Turley said : "Trump today repeated his own denial and tweeted that “I did NOT know of the meeting with my son, Don jr. Sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam (Taxi cabs maybe?). He even retained Bill and Crooked Hillary’s lawyer. Gee, I wonder if they helped him make the choice!”....the denial could not be more clear. In other words, someone is lying. Indeed, Cohen’s new role as a truth teller seems to have triggered a self-destructive impulse. This is a type of “mutually assured destruction” (MAD) strategy with a twist. Usually you make such a threat to avoid the actual MAD move. Here, Cohen is going MAD in the hope, perhaps, of post-apocalyptic survival through a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller. The new account seems to contradict Cohen’s prior statements to Congress and investigators when he was specifically pressed on this very question. Even if Mueller gives him a deal, it will not protect him from state charges and it could involve a guilty plea, as with former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn." • But, I have a concern that points at far more sinister scenarios. • Business Insider wrote on July 5 that : "Michael Cohen just hired one of Bill Clinton's most notable lawyers to represent him. President Donald Trump's longtime lawyer Michael Cohen just hired Lanny Davis, who served as special counsel to former President Bill Clinton. The hire was first reported by the New York Times. 'Michael Cohen deserves to tell his side of the story -- subject, of course, to the advice of counsel,' Davis said in a statement to the Times. Rudy Giuliani, Trump's outside counsel, told Business Insider that Cohen 'should have the attorneys who he has the most confidence in.' ....Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted that Davis told her he was retained by Cohen as he prepares for a legal and public relations 'onslaught.' 'Like most of America, I have been following the matter regarding Michael Cohen with great interest,' Davis said in a statement to Haberman. 'As an attorney, I have talked to Michael many times in the last two weeks. Then I read his words published on July 2, and I recognized his sincerity." Business Times says Davis's noting of July 2 is a reference to Cohen's ABC News interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, in which Cohen split with Trump and fueled speculation that he could soon "flip" and cooperate with the government regarding the criminal investigation he's at the center of in the Southern District of New York, saying he would "put family and country first" when considering what he should do regarding that criminal investigation. When Stephanopoulos pressed Cohen about his past vow to "take a bullet" for Trump, Cohen doubled down, saying: "To be crystal clear, my wife, my daughter, and my son and this country have my first loyalty." Business Insider stated that in June Cohen hired Guy Petrillo as the latest lawyer representing him in the case "after it was reported that Cohen was breaking up with existing his legal team. Petrillo, a partner at Petrillo Klein & Boxer, has extensive experience in the Southern District of New York, which is something Cohen reportedly sought. Experts told Business Insider Petrillo was the kind of lawyer a person would choose if he or she were seeking to cut a deal with prosecutors." Business Insider also reported that "people close to Cohen told The Wall Street Journal and CNN he was frustrated Trump wasn't paying his legal bills -- even suggesting Cohen was open to cooperating with the government and providing information on Trump." But, President Trump has distanced himself from Cohen, suggesting that the investigation has far more to do with Cohen's business dealings than anything Cohen did for the President. Trump has also said he is not worried about Cohen giving the government anything damaging on him because he hasn't done anything wrong. AND, Bloomberg legal expert Harry Sandick turns up. Business Insider reported that Sandick "told the New York Daily News that Davis' hiring may signal a turning point in Cohen's legal strategy and show that he's tired of waiting for Trump's help. 'He has to prepare for the possibility that he could be charged,' said Sandick, a white collar defense lawyer. 'It would be foolish just to sit around and assume that the pardon is coming.' " • If you've watched cable news outlets, there's a chance you've seen Lanny Davis on the airwaves. He worked as special counsel defending then-President Bill Clinton against impeachment, and during the 2016 presidential campaign was constantly on CNN touting Hillary Clinton and tearing apart Donald Trump. • • • DEAR READERS, I have a very negative sense about what is going on with Michael Cohen. Last week, Fox News Brian Kilmeade said : "And it is, just the beginning of, I guess, Lanny Davis’ attempt to pay back Hillary Clinton or try to pay back Donald Trump for beating Hillary Clinton.” • That is what worries me. We know that Hillary and the Democratic National Committee paid for political smear that they then offered to the FBI as real investigation -- the Steele Russia Dossier became the basis for the Fake collusion theories about Trump and Russia. We also know that Hillary is still hurting from her loss to Trump and can't seem to move beyond it. We know that Hillary and Bill Clinton are still trying to live off the Clinton Foundation, but now with little pay-for-play to sell and a rapidly waning influence. Hillary's daydream of running again in 2020 is certainly part of their strategy to get back into the Swamp's "influence selling" game. And, we know that for 30 years, the Clintons have been very dangerous enemies for anyone who got in their way. • Has Michael Cohen, frightened and with mounting legal bills, been swept up into the Clinton web, to be used by Clintonite-par-excellence Lanny Davis to get even with Donald Trump. That is the kind of game that the Washington ProgDem elites and the ProgDem propagandist media would love to be part of -- defeating and destroying Donald Trump in any way possible -- if not with the truth then with Fake News Dossiers and fuzzy taped telephone conversations. That is the danger Michael Cohen now represents -- a new Clinton assault on Trump through whatever means they can create out of smoke and mirrors. • Professor Turley said it this way : "New Jersey mobster Sam DeCavalcante once said, 'Honest people have no ethics.' Cohen’s new found 'honesty' appears to rest on the same dubious distinction, as he actively seeks to incriminate his former client to save himself with secret recordings and gotcha accounts. It also is possible that the 'new' Cohen is a lot like the old Cohen -- a stranger, perhaps, to both honesty and ethics. Nevertheless, he has the ability to move this scandal into a new and precarious stage for this administration. Cohen now knows that he is fighting for simple survival, and that makes him dangerous. The real 'truth' is that Cohen is done -- but that does not mean he is finished." • O'Dwyer PR website said it another way. Fraser Seitel, a PR and communications expert for over 40 years, wrote on Friday : "It’s not just that Donald Trump’s former friend and fixer finds himself in the crosshairs of attack dogs from the New York US Attorney’s office, investigating him for, among other things, falsified bank records, fraudulent business dealings and illegal hush-money payments to presidential paramours. No, Mr. Cohen’s real problem is that he recently fired his experienced but low key legal team and hired, in its place, a combination lawyer/PR man. And that particular 'counselor' is none other than our old buddy and self-promoter par excellence, Lanny Davis....Mr. Davis is the consummate Democrat DC swamp thing, a lawyer-turned-public relations pretender whose client list reads like a Who’s Who of disgraced companies, corrupt politicians, ruthless dictators and virtually anyone else willing to pay his exorbitant fees. Topping the Davis client roster are a federally-subsidized Maryland additive company accused of putting useless fatty acids in infant formula sold to poor women, for-profit colleges accused of exploiting students, and at least two African despots condemned by the international community for assorted crimes against humanity. (Not to mention, Harvey Weinstein!) Davis got his start as a Bill Clinton White House lawyer who became one of the President’s primary public defenders against Monica Lewinsky, right up until Clinton admitted lying about his sexual shenanigans in the Oval Office. Thereupon, presidential alibi-er Davis wrote a book, Truth to Tell, in which, lo and behold, he extolled the public relations virtues of being honest all the time. Having found religion through his public relations epiphany, the former Clinton con man became a 'crisis communications counselor. My credibility,' Davis humbly told the New York Times, 'is the only thing I have.' " Seidel says that "was good enough for the cornered Cohen to drop his low profile, white-shoe lawyers from McDermott Will & Emery and sign on with loquacious Lanny. And ever since he did, Davis has been an omnipresent presence on cable TV, dropping bombshell after bombshell about his new client’s treasure trove of Trump tapes." But, according to Seidel, Cohen’s desperate hiring of Davis may likely prove fatal for the fallen fixer : "Davis’ spotlight strategy is the last thing Cohen needs. Michael Cohen’s best chance of avoiding jail is to cooperate with prosecutors behind the scenes, providing valuable information quietly so that those he’s fingering (guess who?) are kept in the dark and off balance. Presumably, that’s what his former lawyers were trying to do. And that’s what experienced public relations counsel would recommend as well. But not Lanny, who claims to be guided always by a mantra of 'tell it early, tell it all, tell it yourself,' which is admirable in theory, but often impractical, especially when 'revealing all early' proves counterproductive to your client." Seidel says that : "When Davis launched his perpetual publicity machine...he set Cohen up for a monumental fall. As Rudy Giuliani correctly concluded, the secret taping of a client destroys Cohen as a witness, leaving him with even less credibility than his spokesman. Even more important, if all Cohen has is a single, surreptitiously-recorded, garbled tape that may or may not suggest Trump lied about paying hush money to starlets, prosecutors may not be interested in striking a deal." AND, says Seidel, Lanny’s bombast has destroyed any chance of a presidential pardon : "Say what you will about Donald Trump....he has also proven himself loyal to his allies, as long as they don’t cross him. Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn, for instance, have remained true to their former employer, even in the face of a withering attack from a running-out-of-time special prosecutor desperate to get the goods on Trump. Both will be convicted of crimes, and both may well receive presidential pardons for their loyalty. Cohen, on the other hand, especially now that he’s retained such a loud-mouthed Trump hater, will likely not be so pardoned when the government’s wrath rains down on him. Even if Trump wanted to pardon Cohen, he couldn’t because...Davis is a proxy for the evil empire the Trump base will simply not abide : the Clintons....Lanny Davis has been a Clinton toady for nearly three decades, first defending Bill’s sexcapades in the White House and then later toiling in the never-ending Hillary campaigns....in recruiting such a high profile and, in the eyes of Trump supporters, repulsive, Clintonista to his team, Michael Cohen has effectively made it impossible for the President to pardon him.... And with every new TV appearance or print interview or over-the-top public challenge to the President, Davis digs the hole deeper for his confused and beleaguered client....So, the bet here is that poor, beleaguered Michael Cohen, like other similarly-panicked and put-upon suckers before him, ultimately sealed his fate the day he hired an ersatz 'crisis communications guru' who has demonstrated time and again that his only real 'client' is himself." • Finally, during Saturday’s “Justice” with Jeanine Pirro on Fox News, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz shared his reaction to the tape. Dershowitz told Judge Jeanine the tape should be “subjected to forensic analysis” to determine why it was cut short at a particular point : “All I know is this tape must be subjected to forensic analysis. We must stretch the words to find out what exactly the President said, what the context was, and most important, why it ended at a particular point. Was that a decision made by Mr. Cohen to end it there? Was it erased because he said things that were exculpatory? We need to know the entire context of the tape, if the tape means anything. By the way, the tape does not contain any evidence of crimes.” • There is a serious message in Dershowitz's words -- beware of Clintonite lawyers bearing tapes because they may be doctored, edited, spliced, and perhaps even created out of thin air from snips of other voice recordings. • We are forewarned. • Cohen, Davis and the Clintons are woven from the same sleazy cloth.