There is no “manuscript”
by digby
Virtually everything failed lawyer Michael Cohen said in his sworn testimony last week is totally contradicted in his just released manuscript for a book about me. It’s a total new love letter to “Trump” and the pols must now use it rather than his lies for sentence reduction!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2019
The brand new manuscript for a new book by failed lawyer Michael Cohen shows his testimony was a total lie! Pundits should only use it.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2019
After more than two years of Presidential Harassment, the only things that have been proven is that Democrats and other broke the law. The hostile Cohen testimony, given by a liar to reduce his prison time, proved no Collusion! His just written book manuscript showed what he…..— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2019
…said was a total lie, but Fake Media won’t show it. I am an innocent man being persecuted by some very bad, conflicted & corrupt people in a Witch Hunt that is illegal & should never have been allowed to start – And only because I won the Election! Despite this, great success!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2019
CNN’s Brian Stelter sent this little nugget around in his newsletter:
The president keeps tweeting about an alleged “manuscript” of a pro-Trump book written by Michael Cohen before he flipped. But there’s no evidence that this document exists. It IS true that Center Street struck a book deal with Cohen based on a proposal last year, but then the deal was scrapped… And the publisher said it never received any “manuscript” from Cohen.
Trump said Sunday morning that the “Fake Media won’t show” the manuscript. So he’s saying that newsrooms are suppressing it — a full-on conspiracy — even though there’s no evidence that the manuscript even exists.
The right has a long history of laundering its dirt through British tabloids. The Daily Mail was the first to run with this story.
The a proposal logically was a short document which could very easily have said some nice things about Trump since he was flogging the book before his office and homes were searched by federal prosecutors. Everybody knows he used to say he’d take a bullet for Trump and has since been deprogrammed.
The president, of course, is just lying for his own reasons. As usual. But it does put those rather hysterical, desperate tweets in perspective. He’s rattled.
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