George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley on Tuesday criticized MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell for defending Michael Cohen’s admission that he stole $30,000 from former President Donald Trump’s company. did.
Cohen, who once served as Trump’s lawyer, admitted under cross-examination on Monday that he received $30,000 from the Trump Organization by inflating the amount needed to reimburse expenses related to technology companies. Mr. Turley disputed that Mr. O’Donnell called the theft a means to “rebalance” the bonus that Mr. Cohen was allegedly owed. (Related article: Jonathan Turley slams MSNBC host for calling Republicans ‘conspiracy theorists’)
“Yesterday, a host from another network actually came out and said on the stand that Cohen was great,” Turley said on “America’s Newsroom” co-hosts Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino. I told Mr. “Mr. Cohen said he stole the money, but in reality it was just a ‘self-help effort’ to get the bonus back.”
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Mr. Perino interrupted Mr. Turley to play Mr. O’Donnell’s remarks about the hospitalization of Mr. Cohen, who pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in 2018. accused Perjury by a federal judge.
“I couldn’t believe I had stolen $30,000,” O’Donnell claimed. “Michael Cohen appeared to have done the little he could within his calculations to rebalance the bonuses he thought he deserved, but the results still remained the same.” It was less than the bonus and the bonus I got the previous year.”
“It really stunned a lot of us, and I blogged about it this morning, because we’ve seen the serious side of what O’Donnell said, the level of what you heard. Because I think you have to understand that there’s delusion and denial,’ in his words, it’s not going to be unique,” Turley told Perino after the clip aired. “Some of these jurors actually cited MSNBC as their primary news source, so they’re probably bringing the same baggage with them. So what people see in that courtroom is something they’ve seen before.” It could have been heavily distorted by what they brought to court.” Most others, including people from other networks, said this was a disaster and ultimately this man committed grand theft. You have to deal with the fact that you admitted that. ”
MSNBC hosts and guests routinely touted claims that the 2016 Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to defeat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. MSNBC repeatedly aired Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California, who has often made claims about collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in 2016. The Steele dossier was used to further raise suspicions of collusion, but was later discredited.
Regardless of whether Mr. O’Donnell actually believes Mr. Cohen was justified in stealing this money, many people, including perhaps some jurors, cannot see beyond the identity of the defendant. He shows a common level of self-deception and denial… https://t.co/ZCoauvTfaU
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 21, 2024
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