Is Chinese espionage a national security threat to the United States? Small potatoes, compared to Donald Trump national security threat! If you believe Michael Cohen, that is.
Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in 2017, but now he’s definitely telling the truth about one thing. As the title of his book-revenge And unbeliever—Hint, Cohen’s mission in life is to take down Donald Trump to avenge the wrongs done to him.
Which makes Cohen an ideal guest for MSNBC.
Cohen made his most recent appearance on Katie Fang’s show Saturday morning. The initial focus was on Cohen meeting again with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office regarding Trump’s possible prosecution of a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels, allegedly in exchange for her silence about a possible relationship with Trump.
But the conversation eventually turned to Trump’s possession of classified documents. Which in turn led to this stunning exchange.
Katie Fung: Is Trump finally at the point where he’s hitting the panic button?
Michael Cohen: I think so He hit the panic button a while ago. However, what he is very good at is hidden. So, anyone in the room with him would be able to attest to things that I’ve seen in the past, which Donald really lost it.
But, in front of the camera, he is cool, calm and collected, because he is one Sociologist. Period, end of story. . . The real danger to our national security is not these floating balloons That’s out there. It’s now, as you’ve reported before, they’ve copied these classified documents and they’re sitting on one of Donald’s associates’ computers.
Because, if you’re really concerned about national security, Don’t worry about a weather balloon. Don’t worry about what information they are viewing through it. They already have people on the ground. And we are spying on China, China is spying on America. how Top secret documentation that is in the hands of Donald Trump? that A clear and present danger to America’s national security.
Fang ends the segment with this—scornfully, smilingly, gleefully [see screencap]-that he should bring Cohen back on the show. . . When Trump was impeached.
Note: Although Cohen described recent incursions into US airspace as mere Chinese “weather balloons.” After all it was a sophisticated spy balloon. What news source is Cohen relying on for his benign portrayal of the balloon? People’s Daily?
On Katie Fang’s MSNSBC show, Michael Cohen said the national security threat to the United States came not from Chinese balloons but from the fact that Donald Trump was in possession of classified documents sponsored by Skyrizi, Advil and AbbVie, the maker of John Deere. .
Transcript here.
MSNBC
The Katie Fung Show
2/11/23
7:42 am ETKatie Fung: I ask you this question all the time, but I don’t think it ever gets old. Because you know Donald Trump very well. Intimately good, in perspective his brain thinks.
Is Trump finally at the point where he’s hitting the panic button?
Michael Cohen: I think he hit the panic button a while ago. However, he hides what he is very good at. So, anyone in the room with him would be able to attest to things that I’ve seen in the past, which Donald really lost it.
But, in front of the camera, he is cool, calm and collected, because He is a sociologist. Period, end of story.
You know, I’ll tell you something. When watching the show, before I came along, you were Michael Allen. And let me tell you, you The real real danger to our national security is not these floating balloons That’s out there. It’s now, as you’ve reported before, they’ve copied these classified documents and they’re sitting on one of Donald’s associates’ computers.
I mean, I said this on your show, how many months ago? That we have to go, and we have to check every place since Donald Trump left office. And then we have to find out, who was with him.
because iIf you’re really concerned about national security, don’t worry about weather balloons. Don’t worry about what information they are viewing through it. They already have people on the ground. And we are spying on China, China is spying on America. how Top secret documentation that is in the hands of Donald Trump? that A clear and present danger to America’s national security.
FANG: Michael Cohen, you’re probably going to be testifying soon with special counsel Jack Smith about the Mar-a-Lago documents. That would be interesting.
But what does Michael know? This will be the number of times you sit down with Congress and with law enforcement. And I want to thank you for sitting down with me this morning to talk about your upcoming meeting with Alvin Bragg.
We will get back to you when we see a complaint, From the Manhattan DA’s office, I think, but thanks for being here this morning.
COHEN: Always good to see you, Katie.