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<\/p>\nRUSH: You know, folks, it just gets tiresome. I don\u2019t know how else to describe it. It just gets tiresome. The Drive-By Media is just beside itself with the sentencing hearing today of Michael Cohen. They\u2019ve got themselves convinced that Michael Cohen being sentenced is the same thing as Donald Trump being sentenced, and so whatever Cohen gets, they think Trump is next in line. That\u2019s how they\u2019re interpreting this. That\u2019s how they\u2019re reporting this.<\/p>\n
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They\u2019re reporting Cohen saying things like (paraphrasing), “Yeah, you know, Trump\u2019s right. I was weak. I didn\u2019t have the guts to stand up to Trump when he was trying to get me to cover up his dirty deeds. So, yeah, I am weak. Trump\u2019s right. I should have been a better man.” And he\u2019s copping to everything, and he\u2019s blaming Trump for whatever he made him do and so forth.<\/p>\n
Do not doubt me on this. Cohen\u2019s obviously trying to get as little jail time as possible, but he\u2019s also trying to do a 180 here and become a media darling so that going forward in his life he\u2019s going to always be looked upon favorably by the media and be a media hero and get great media coverage. That matters to so many people. And he knows what he has to do to get that. He\u2019s got to throw Donald Trump overboard and under the bus, and he knows full well that\u2019s what everybody in that courtroom, including probably the judge, wants to hear.<\/p>\n
But Cohen today, the way to understand, this is what gets tiresome about it. Donald Trump is not in that courtroom, and Donald Trump\u2019s not being sentenced to anything. And Donald Trump is not gonna be in that courtroom and isn\u2019t gonna be sentenced to anything. So they\u2019re acting like Cohen is a proxy or a stand-in.<\/p>\n
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All morning long it has been impossible to turn on any news network and not see a bunch of breathless anticipation counting down to the Cohen sentencing hearing in federal court in New York, U.S. District Court, New York City. And to those of us in the know, of course, it\u2019s abundantly obvious what this is. Since they can\u2019t get Trump in that courtroom, they\u2019re gonna get Cohen in there, and they\u2019re going to act as though Cohen is Trump, that the two are inseparable.<\/p>\n
And Cohen knows exactly what to do here. He\u2019s just gotta beg forgiveness, take the blame for everything, blame as much of what he did on Trump, i.e., covering up for Trump\u2019s quote \u201cdirty deeds.\u201d That\u2019s actually the phrase that he used, apparently. I mean, even Fox cannot wait to tell you what happened in here.<\/p>\n
On the other end of this, Michael Flynn has got a sentencing date. Here\u2019s the thing about this. I saw Andy McCarthy on TV earlier today, and he made a great, great point. That if these witnesses were all that valuable in getting Trump, they wouldn\u2019t be being sentenced today. They would be withheld for testimony. A sentencing for somebody that\u2019s gonna turn state\u2019s evidence or become a huge witness for the prosecution against some perp, the sentencing occurs after they testify. Because when they testify, I mean, they can have their sentencing document and they promise to say what they\u2019re gonna say.<\/p>\n
But, as we know from Godfather movies, after you agree to testify they come bury a horse head in your bed, then you show up in court and change your story. We learned that in The Godfather. So these people, prosecutors always wait until the witnesses have testified before they actually request sentencing. In fact. let\u2019s grab audio sound bite number 3. This is Andy McCarthy on Fox News today with Bill Hemmer explaining this.<\/p>\n