Nonessential Consultants

Bob Mueller is following the money.

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Michael Cohen used to have a wonderful life. In a span of less than six months he's gone from being the highly paid "fixer" for the president of the United States to being a haunted and troubled man in turmoil. He used to present himself to the world with such assertive self confidence. Today he seems to be something else entirely. His face has the same far-off gaze and indifference to his surroundings that I have only encountered twice in my life: two acquaintances of mine who both ended their lives very shortly thereafter - one on the very day I spoke to him. I am not relating this with any feelings of schadenfreude on my part; it truly is a troubling thing to behold.

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Cohen, you might recall, was busted for fronting a shell company called "Essential Consultants", a firm that had no website or even a phone number. It's entire reason for existing was simply to sell access to the president of the United States. Cohen had been paid several million dollars by several different companies for this very purpose. The questions now being raised are: Did the Donald know about this arrangement? And if he did, in fact, know about it, was he getting a piece of the action? For years he has been lending his name to the shadiest of organizations and receiving a share of the profits in return. It's clear that Mr. Mueller is finding out a lot of things that the Trump  Mob would rather he not find out about. They're waiting to make their move. This week Mike Pence was on NBC News "respectfully" requesting that Mueller end the investigation. It reminded a lot of people of Dick Nixon's "One year of Watergate is enough" line during his 1974 State of the Union Speech. That investigation - if you'll be kind enough to recall - took over two years to wrap up.

It has been proposed that the House and Senate pass a bill that will protect the investigation from being killed. Mitch McConnell has refused to consider it because he says that he doesn't think that Trump would do such a thing. Really? Two years ago when Russian interference in the 2016 campaign started to come to light, McConnell did everything he could to keep the whole nasty affair a secret from the American people. I don't know quite how, but old Mitch is involved in this thing up to his ears.

Robert Mueller has a job to do and he needs to complete it.

Ahmed Al-Rumaihi,

In December of 2016 during the transition period, someone named Ahmed Al-Rumaihi (who controls a "multi-billion dollar investment fund" out of Qatar) claims that during a meeting in his office at Trump Tower, Cohen informed him that, in order to get the president's ear, he would need to shell out a cool couple of million bucks that would then be funneled to "Trump family members). Cohen says the meeting never happened. The only problem with his denial is the unsettling fact that news footage clearly shows Al-Runaihi entering an elevator inside the tower on the day in question - with Cohen by his side. Busted.

This is exploding. I predicted on the day after this psychopath and common pervert was elected to the presidency that his administration would eventually fall hard and completely of its own corruption and incompetence. It's about four times as bad as even I would have dared to imagine. What we are bearing witness to is Watergate on steroids; worse than any political scandal in the history of the United States.

This is going to end badly. Perhaps I've made that observation before, huh? Never mind.

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY