{"id":29280,"date":"2018-04-21T13:04:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T13:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29280"},"modified":"2018-04-21T13:04:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T13:04:39","slug":"does-innocence-require-flip-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29280","title":{"rendered":"Does &#8216;innocence&#8217; require &#8216;flip&#8217; preparation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/17-cohen-squash.w710.h473.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29281\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/17-cohen-squash.w710.h473-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/17-cohen-squash.w710.h473-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/17-cohen-squash.w710.h473.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is confusing to me.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump keeps denying he had a tryst with Stormy Daniels, the porn queen. The president&#8217;s personal lawyer and so-called &#8220;fixer,&#8221; Michael Cohen, has acknowledged paying Daniels $130,000 in hush money to keep quiet about the tumble she took with Trump in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now we get word that the Trump legal team &#8212; or what&#8217;s left of it &#8212; is preparing to respond if Cohen &#8220;flips&#8221; and cooperates with special counsel Robert Mueller who might be looking at whether there are some other issues to examine relating to the alleged dozen-year-old sexual encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Does someone who didn&#8217;t do what has been alleged have reason to &#8220;prepare&#8221; for someone to cooperate with investigators?<\/p>\n<p>I keep wondering what the &#8220;flip prep&#8221; entails and whether the Trump team is going to challenge Cohen&#8217;s credibility, call him a liar, impugn his integrity, you know &#8230; do the kind of thing Trump has done with others who have accused him doing something improper.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t stop believing that Trump and Cohen have something for which to prepare &#8212; and it&#8217;s not good for either of them.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is confusing to me. Donald J. Trump keeps denying he had a tryst with Stormy Daniels, the porn queen. The president&#8217;s personal lawyer and so-called &#8220;fixer,&#8221; Michael Cohen, has acknowledged paying Daniels $130,000 in hush money to keep quiet about the tumble she took with Trump in 2006. But &#8230; Now we get word &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29280\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does &#8216;innocence&#8217; require &#8216;flip&#8217; preparation?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,7694,3688,3983,7555],"class_list":["post-29280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-michael-cohen","tag-potus","tag-robert-mueller","tag-stormy-daniels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29282,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29280\/revisions\/29282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}