Former Trump “Fixer,” Michael Cohen, Meets With Prosecutors Investigating Trump’s Charities, Business

Former Trump attorney and “fixer” of all of Donald Trump’s creepy bimbo eruptions is really bearing down in his efforts to separate himself from his slimy ex-boss.

On Wednesday, Cohen and his attorney, Guy Petrillo, huddled with state and federal law enforcement officials, all investigating President Trump’s personal business and [alleged] charitable organizations.

Federal prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York have been hot on this case.

In August, they charged Cohen with, among other things, campaign finance law violations, in regards to the $130,000 payment made to Trump’s porn star mistress, Stormy Daniels, as well as a $150,000 payment to another mistress, former Playboy model, Karen McDougal.

The payment to Daniels was made through a shell company a month before the 2016 election.

Michael Cohen, in entering his guilty plea, said that he made the payments to the two women at the direction of his client.

So, while he didn’t name Trump, outright, what he was saying was made perfectly clear.

None of those involved in Wednesday’s meeting are offering any details, but it seems apparent that this is all part of Michael Cohen’s break from his old boss.

The meeting comes as Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney, has spent hours huddling with prosecutors from the office of special counsel Robert Mueller. Cohen’s cooperation with investigators could help reduce the sentence he’s set to receive December 12 for the crimes to which he pleaded guilty in New York. Cohen has said privately a reduced sentence is not his motivation.

In recent days, Cohen and Trump have traded public barbs, with Cohen touting his recent allegiance with the Democratic Party on social media and Trump saying Tuesday in an interview with the Associated Press that Cohen was “lying” when he indicated during his guilty plea, under oath, that Trump had directed him to break the law by instructing Cohen to make payments to silence two women who claimed affairs with Trump.

Remember when President Trump said of his campaign team foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos, that he was a “low level coffee boy,” at best?

He also said of his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, that he barely had any involvement with the campaign.

That seems to be the fall back for Trump. When someone who could potentially sink him spills the beans, he quickly works to separate himself from them.

Now Cohen, who worked for him for a decade, cleaning up so many of his ugly messes, is getting the same treatment.

Trump has denied those claims, and in the AP interview he described Cohen as “a PR person who did small legal work, very small legal work.”

“He wasn’t in trouble for what he did for me; he was in trouble for what he did for other people,” Trump said. “He represented me very little. It’s a very low level. And what he was is also a public relations person.”

Me thinks he doth protest too much.

The news from earlier Wednesday was that special counsel Robert Mueller was preparing to release key details of the Russia probe. While many are waiting with rapt interest for that report (yours truly, included), it looks increasingly as if not Russia, but Trump’s adulterous proclivities could be his downfall.

Under oath @MichaelCohen212 acknowledged and took responsibility for @realdonaldtrump @potus bad behavior. Trump calling anyone a #liar is a compliment!

— Lanny Davis (@LannyDavis) October 16, 2018