{"id":11573,"date":"2018-12-10T19:48:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T03:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11573"},"modified":"2018-12-10T19:48:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T03:48:09","slug":"defeat-and-the-dossier-explain-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/defeat-and-the-dossier-explain-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Defeat and the Dossier Explain Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n

D<\/span>onald Trump\u2019s former consiglieri Michael Cohen, along with being charged with tax avoidance and improper business deals, allegedly is guilty also of trying to leverage money and attention by exaggerating his influence with candidate and later President Trump.<\/p>\n

In other words, Cohen to spec followed the standard creepy daily fare for Washington and New York wannabe fixers. But did we need Robert Mueller\u2019s 18 months and $40 million to uncover and redirect to federal attorneys what was largely self-evident? Could not the U.S. government long ago, without the prompt of a special counsel, have uncovered that Michael Cohen did not fully pay his taxes\u2014in the manner of an\u00a0Al Sharpton<\/a>,\u00a0Timothy Geithner<\/a>, and\u00a0Tom Daschle<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The diabolical Cohen also tried to enforce, extend, or create non-disclosure agreements (Swampese for hush money) with two women from Trump\u2019s past. The two reappeared out of nowhere in 2016, apparently to translate their alleged Trump hookups of a few hours in years past to notoriety and additional profit in the new age of \u201cPresident Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Donald Trump\u2019s former consiglieri Michael Cohen, along with being charged with tax avoidance and improper business deals, allegedly is guilty also of trying to leverage money and attention by exaggerating his influence with candidate and later President Trump. 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So far, we know that the U.S. government decided to intervene\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Donald Trump"","block_context":{"text":"Donald Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/donald-trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11837,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-epidemic-of-electronic-deletions\/","url_meta":{"origin":11573,"position":4},"title":"The Epidemic of Electronic Deletions","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 21, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review There are lots of ways to adjudicate the present political divide over the collusion hoax. One method might be to see whether those targeted by Robert Mueller had ever begun accusing each other of \u201ccollusion\u201d to save their own skins. 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