LETHAL CONNECTIONS: A CURE
Okay, so these last two
weeks, I have been following the launch of the documentary film "Where's
My Roy Cohn," which opened in NY and LA last week. I appeared briefly in
that film, talking about my role in disbarring the monster, even after he beat
three SDNY/Morgenthau criminal prosecutions. I'm proud of the fact I spearheaded
his disbarment prosecution and that the court gave me the honor of signing the
petition that brought an end to Cohn's career at the bar.
After seeing the film, I
focused again on the wretch in a brief appearance on MSNBC last week.
So the late Roy Cohn is very
much with me these days. And the more I think about Cohn, the more parallels I
see between Cohn and Trump. Roy lives on in Donald. Ugh.
Perhaps that is what brings
to mind a connection that, so far, others have not yet cottoned to:
While visiting the UN the
other day, in defending himself, (and shocking his audience of US diplomats)
Trump attacked the whistleblower. He did this despite that the fact that Trump's appointed Acting Director of National Intelligence testified to Congress
that the whistleblower did the right thing!
The nature of Trump's attack
was absolutely creepy: a not so veiled threat.
Here what he said about the people
in the Trump White House who gave the whistleblower information that the
Intelligence agency Inspector General said was "credible and urgent information":
"You know,
what we used to do in the old days, when we were smart, with
spies and treason, right?"
Sure, Mr. President, some of
us were recently reminded. What "we used to do" is what Roy Cohn did:
He not only prosecuted the Rosenbergs, but even though the evidence against
Mrs. Rosenberg was very thin, Cohn used every tactic, including illicit ex
parte conversations with the judge, to
bring about the execution of both defendants.
That's what we did with
"spies and treason" in the old days. Let that be a lesson to you
whistleblowers, the law be damned.
Yesterday, Trump announced a
$10 million campaign, funded by the Republican Party, to strike back at the
Democratic impeachment inquiry. The focus will be two points: i) Don't believe
what you see: the Zelensky conversation was harmless, and ii) Biden and his son
acted corruptly in the firing of a Ukraine prosecutor.
The first point is so counter-rational
it reminds me of the joke involving the errant husband, being caught by his
wife who enters their bedroom and finds him in bed with another woman. The
husband's defense: "Woman?" he blusters, "What woman?"
The second point is the old
saw about the big lie: Tell it often and loudly. The facts are really not in
dispute. Vice President Biden did go to Ukraine and work to rid that country of
a corrupt prosecutor. He went on behalf of the United States, (he was not a
candidate for anything.) Not only President Obama and our State Department, but a large group of countries were demanding
the Ukraine president fire the prosecutor because he was totally corrupt. The
bad guy was not investigating Hunter Biden, and further inquiry by the
Ukrainians made clear that Hunter Biden had nothing to do with corruption.
Nevertheless, Trump's extraordinary
conduct vis-a-vis the Zelensky call, and Trump's effort to switch the
electorate's focus onto a vicious slander of his chief political rival for 2020,
calls for an extraordinary response. I know there are many who fear that, no
matter what the truth is, the Dem's leading candidate, the one who currently scores
the highest rating in the most-likely-to-beat-Trump polls, will be damaged,
perhaps irreparably, by Trump's poisonous smoke screen.
Let's see how many patriots
the Democrats can muster. Because extraordinary challenges call for
extraordinary measures, I offer up this admittedly pie-in-the-sky program. In
the next Democratic debate, ten of the twelve candidates make a powerful
statement, in his or her own words, to the following effect:
"This is not the time for division. Our country's
future hangs in the balance. I deplore what this President has done and is
doing, and the most important thing, the vital thing, we must do is unite to defeat him. I hereby withdraw from the race
for the Democratic nomination. I think we must put forward our best and
strongest ticket. I pledge to speak out every day and help in every
way I can to bring about the election of the Biden/Warren team on November 4,
2020. God Bless America."
A bientot.
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experience in opposing and defeating a meritless lawsuit brought by Donald Trump,
see my memoir, "The Client Decides,"
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posted by marty at 6:08 PM
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