{"id":44412,"date":"2020-09-15T02:29:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T02:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44412"},"modified":"2020-09-15T02:29:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T02:29:08","slug":"michael-cohen-hero-or-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44412","title":{"rendered":"Michael Cohen: hero or zero?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MichaelCohen%20%23Disloyal%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Michael_Cohen_Testifies-800x509.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35717\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Michael_Cohen_Testifies-800x509-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Michael_Cohen_Testifies-800x509-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Michael_Cohen_Testifies-800x509-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Michael_Cohen_Testifies-800x509.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am trying to figure out my feelings toward Michael Cohen, the former Donald Trump lawyer\/friend\/fixer who has turned ferociously against the man to whom he once pledged blind loyalty.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen has written a book titled &#8220;Disloyal.&#8221; He has been making the talk show circuit from his home, given that he remains under house arrest for crimes he committed on Donald Trump&#8217;s behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen is a convicted perjurer, which is a legal word that means &#8220;liar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, he is trying to make amends for lying on Trump&#8217;s behalf. Cohen has talked about the treachery he performed for Trump, how he got sucked into Trump&#8217;s cult of personality. About how he fell for Trump&#8217;s sales pitch.<\/p>\n<p>This mixed feeling I have toward Cohen is driving me a bit batty. My first instinct would be to salute Cohen for acknowledging the wrong turn he took years ago. However, the damage he did while working for Trump wipes away a good bit of that instinct to cheer Michael Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if I will purchase &#8220;Disloyal.&#8221; I know a lot already about the man for whom he worked. He won&#8217;t tell me much of anything I don&#8217;t already believe about him. He says Trump&#8217;s hatred of Barack Obama is based <em>exclusively<\/em> on President Obama&#8217;s race &#8230; to which I say, <em>&#8220;no sh**?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe, over time, my feelings about Cohen will crystallize. I cannot get there just yet. He means to make amends. I&#8217;ll at least give him credit for making the effort. For now, that&#8217;s the best I can deliver to this convicted liar.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MichaelCohen%20%23Disloyal%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com I am trying to figure out my feelings toward Michael Cohen, the former Donald Trump lawyer\/friend\/fixer who has turned ferociously against the man to whom he once pledged blind loyalty. Cohen has written a book titled &#8220;Disloyal.&#8221; He has been making the talk show circuit from his home, given that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44412\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Michael Cohen: hero or zero?<\/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],"class_list":["post-44412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-michael-cohen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44412","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=44412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44413,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44412\/revisions\/44413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}