I thought this was a revealing exchange in the preview of the Trump interview:
And he sharply decried those who testify against former confidants to ease legal troubles, bemoaning the longstanding practice.
“It’s called flipping and it almost ought to be illegal,” Trump said in the interview, adding he’s witnessed similar scenarios over his decades in public life. “I know all about flipping, 30, 40 years I have been watching flippers. Everything is wonderful and then they get 10 years in jail and they flip on whoever the next highest one is or as high as you can go.”
Do you agree with Trump’s take here? I don’t know how to qualify “almost ought to be illegal”(?) as a claim, but what do you think?
I’m not mad, I’m proud of you. You took your first pinch like a man and you learn two great things in your life. Look at me, never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.
He seems oblivious to the fact in this statement he’s essentially admitting that what Cohen said was true, but thinks that blaming him for “flipping” on him is the real injustice.
Is he referring to corrupt prosecutors blackmailing people to lie on a stack of bibles?
We know that sometimes a corrupt prosecution will create crimes out of whole cloth to charge the person with, or their loved ones? They will sometimes threaten to bankrupt people, ruin their personal lives or professional careers, or do it to people close to them.
It’s the practice of coercing a person and forcing them to sign a plea deal, and lie in court, so the prosecution can win a case.
If you believe the news reports, it would be the same process that they are implementing with General Flynn. They have bankrupted him. Then threatened to bankrupt his son and ruin his future, so Flynn gave in and admitted to a crime he had not committed.
From what I can tell, the context is from the last few days. Trump is favorably comparing Manafort, who appears to have kept his mouth shut and who Trump respects, to Cohen.
“[Cohen] makes a better deal when he uses me, like everybody else,” Trump said. “And one of the reasons I respect Paul Manafort so much is he went through that trial—you know they make up stories. People make up stories. This whole thing about flipping, they call it, I know all about flipping.”
He continued: “For 30, 40 years I’ve been watching flippers. Everything’s wonderful and then they get 10 years in jail and they—they flip on whoever the next highest one is, or as high as you can go.”
Do you suspect that Cohen participated in the process of a corrupt prosecution, in which crimes were created out of whole cloth (as you put it) and then he was coerced into lying about them under oath?
