I went to the room to catch the Michael Cohen testimony right about
seven thirty and I caught most of the opening statement. He called Trump a liar, a fraud and a cheat. I was surprised he didn’t go into more close
detail on a time progressed basis, but instead he skipped around quite a
bit. The Republican questioning wasn’t
productive at all. They would have
gotten an F in terms of defense council for their client. All they could do is to remind everybody that
Cohen is a liar and he’s lied in a lot of areas where he was self-serving that
didn’t involve the President at all. The
democratic questioner weren’t much better.
Again they didn’t ask substantive questions about the testimony but only
went over the same ground that Kohen has already covered. Cohen in one speech reminded people that for
ten years he served Donald Trump and instinctively knew what to do to please
him because Trump spoke in code. He
never issued an overt directive. Of
course we all know that Cohen was unable to say that he personally knew of
“collusion” between the Trump campaign and the Russians. He did mention all the areas where democrats
were suspicious and confirmed them. He
talked about the Trump tower in 2016. He
talked about Julian Assange tipping them off that there would be an E mail dump
of Hillary’s E mails in three days. This
was July 18th or 19th and the E mail dump came out on
July 11nd. He also specifically
mentioned paying the president reimbursement checks for paying off Stormy
Daniels buying her silence. There was
talk of threatening colleges Trump; had attended if he revealed his grades or
SAT scores. They seemed to go right
through to eleven or so without a break but then took a really long and late
break for lunch. I had on Gary and Shannon
because KNXT was back to showing their soap operas. I watched Days of our Lives until the
housekeeper came in to change the sheets and shewed me and Bill out of the
room. I hung out aroud the
building. We’re getting to that light
car now. We never got any rain
yesterday. Finally I reentered the room
and had that sports bedspread and also a tan blanket on top of the bed. I was finally able to continue with the
afternoon session on KTLA. There was
only about another half hour to go.
Cohen gave his summation speech where once again he reminded us that
democracy was at stake and not for others to go down the same deadly road he
himself went down with President Trump in terms of lying to defend him. Then a republican spoke. Finally Rep Cummings gave his closing
speech. At a while he appeared at a loss
for words but finally found his stride and stated the importance of what they
were trying to accomplish. There was a
rumor that Cohen was weeping during his speech.
By this time it was a little after two and they were done for the
day. I turned the station to Dateline
Let's talk about life after death. Then there was our realm of pure intelligence. People always want to get to heaven as though life on earth couldn't possibly provide the joys of life they so crave. Actually to be a bit synical, this could be described as a realm of pure thought but also continuous mental or psychic warfare like some elaborate chess match. St Paul referred to a realm of "powers of the air" where "heaven" is litterally the abode of Demons. You might almost say that St Paul has a phobia of the supernatural. Once he said that "Though we or an angel out of heaven preach another gospel besides the one you've already heard (from us) then "Let him be accursed". This "gospel" thus must be esteemed at an awfully high value. Other scripture says that Satan walks before the throne of God and accuses "the bretherin" day and night. God must find this awfully annoying. We have had a question in our mind whether there is "time" as we know it in this form of "hyperspace" for lack of a better word. It's not "hyper" in terms of being faster than the speed of light but rather "hyper" in terms of being beyond or not related to the dreaded graviton, which so defines time and space and mass as we know it. It has been argued that we can be alive and dead at the same time and at some point we ourselves will remember BEING in heaven WHILE we are yet in the flesh on earth here. This is a strange concept but it's alluded to in scripture.
Shawn Hannity went to Viet Nam with the president we are told. The lives thus of Shawn Hannity and President Trump are really intertwined. It goes without saying that you can't believe a word Shawn Hannity says on his radio program and I've scarcely tuned in the show at all over the past year or so. You could pretty much say I never watch it anymore. The charge has been lodged that Cohen is lying about the president to get a reduced prison term. The show is actually on the other foot. Cohen is TELLING THE TRUTH because he fears reprisal from the government and if he isn't arrow straight in his testimony, more time will be added to his prison sentence just as it was with Manifort. I think we can all agree that we don't need Muller's final report to hand down indictments. But we can't hand down indictments, most argue, untill the president is impeached and removed from office. People forget this.
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