{"id":35700,"date":"2019-02-27T13:37:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T13:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35700"},"modified":"2019-02-27T13:37:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T13:37:42","slug":"oh-the-irony-of-the-liar-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35700","title":{"rendered":"Oh, the irony of the ‘liar defense’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I cannot get past the amazing, astonishing irony of Donald Trump’s political friends as they ratchet up their assault on Michael Cohen, the president’s former friend and personal lawyer and so-called “fixer.”<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican blowhard, has joined the president in calling Cohen a liar, mounting a defense of Trump on the basis of Cohen’s admitted lying to Congress, the Internal Revenue Service, the FBI and heaven knows who else.<\/p>\n

Gaetz also has threatened to expose affairs that Cohen allegedly had with women. Can you say “witness intimidation”?<\/em><\/p>\n

Cohen is going to testify over the next three days about what he did for Trump, the lies he told on the president’s behalf and about Trump’s personal conduct as a business mogul and as president.<\/p>\n

The irony is this: Donald Trump has lied repeatedly since he took office more than two years. At last count, watchdog groups have come up with something close to 9,000 false statements\/lies\/prevarications.<\/p>\n

And now the Liar in Chief’s allies — such as Rep. Gaetz — are hanging the liar label on Michael Cohen?<\/p>\n

This is, shall we say . . . oh, so rich!<\/p>\n\n

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I cannot get past the amazing, astonishing irony of Donald Trump’s political friends as they ratchet up their assault on Michael Cohen, the president’s former friend and personal lawyer and so-called “fixer.” U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican blowhard, has joined the president in calling Cohen a liar, mounting a defense of Trump on … Continue reading Oh, the irony of the ‘liar defense’<\/span> →<\/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":[1424,8425,7694,7525],"class_list":["post-35700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-matt-gaetz","tag-michael-cohen","tag-trumps-lies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35700","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=35700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35701,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35700\/revisions\/35701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}