{"id":307065,"date":"2019-04-24T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=307065"},"modified":"2019-04-25T16:19:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T20:19:22","slug":"cohen-tries-to-walk-back-his-guilty-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/04\/24\/cohen-tries-to-walk-back-his-guilty-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohen Tries to Walk Back His Guilty Plea?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Are you ready for this? Are you ready for this? (interruption) No, I\u2019m not playing any of the sound bites yet because I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m gonna get the entire interview in order or if we\u2019re gonna cherry-pick it here. There\u2019s some confusion back and forth in the email. But we\u2019ll get to it. We\u2019ll get to it quickly. But get this. The Wall Street Journal, just within the last I guess hour or two, published a story saying that Michael Cohen, in a recorded phone call, is now walking back parts of his guilty plea<\/a>. Michael Cohen…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Remember how excited everybody was when the FBI and the Southern District of New York raided Cohen\u2019s home and his apartment and his office? They were gonna get the goods on Trump, remember? They were gonna finally get everything they wanted, because Cohen was Trump\u2019s bagman. Yeah! Cohen was the guy that knew all of Trump\u2019s secrets. Well, all they found was a bunch of dirt on Cohen. So Cohen, trying to limit the damage to him, started making up stuff about all the things Trump supposedly did.<\/p>\n

He would tell Mueller and he would tell SDNY whatever he thought they wanted to hear in order lessen his exposure to prison time, and the effort bombed out. So now Michael Cohen is “disavowing responsibility for some of the crimes to which he has pleaded guilty.” In other words, he called \u2019em and said (paraphrased), “Hey, wait a minute! You know that thing I told you? I didn\u2019t really do it. You know that other thing over there where I pled guilty? I didn\u2019t really do it. (sputtering)<\/p>\n

“I — I — I just told you that \u2019cause I thought that\u2019s what you wanted to hear. I thought it would help me. I knew you wanted Trump, so I was trying to help you.” Now he\u2019s walking it all back. He was “contending in a recent recorded phone call that he had not evaded taxes and that a criminal charge related to his home equity line of credit was a lie.” These are the kind of people that the Democrats invested everything in to try to get Trump. These are the kind of people. You know, Mueller even passed this guy off.<\/p>\n

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Mueller listened to this guy a couple of minutes and said, “You know what? I\u2019m gonna move these guys over to SDNY and they can deal with this.” Mueller decided early on that Cohen had nothing for him. But Cohen still would tell anybody, including the Drive-Bys, what he thought they wanted to hear — and he was found guilty on a bunch of stuff, and now he\u2019s trying to say he didn\u2019t do it. (laughing) He\u2019s trying to walk back his guilty plea. I just love it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: o the audio sound bites. Just hot off the presses here. I mentioned earlier that Michael Cohen was overheard on the phone trying to walk back, now, his guilty pleas. Let me reset the table. Michael Cohen, “the former bagman for Trump,” is how he was referred to, the former “fixer.” He was a lawyer, and he himself engaged, in I guess, some nefarious activities, and these activities resulted in his office and his home being raided by law enforcement people, the Mueller team and whoever else.<\/p>\n

And they were looking for any kind of dirt they could get on Trump, and Cohen knew this. So he knew he was in trouble. He knew he was facing jail time. He offered Mueller, he offered the SDNY, he offered them all kinds of things. Whatever he thought they wanted to hear, he gave them a version of, in an effort to limit his jail time. Well, apparently it didn\u2019t work. It didn\u2019t work. He\u2019s still going to jail.<\/p>\n

His jail time has not been significantly reduced and what he did, did not get Trump. So now he\u2019s trying to walk back. He\u2019s trying to say (impression), “Some of that stuff I told them, it wasn\u2019t true.” He\u2019s in heap big trouble. Today the Wall Street Journal website posted a recording of a call made last month between Michael Cohen and Tom Arnold. (chuckles) The former husband of Roseanne! Tom Arnold! The “actor\/activist.” He was talking about his plea, and here is the first of two sound bites…<\/p>\n

COHEN: (dramatic music) I lost my business, I lost my job, everything — my insurance, my bank accounts. All — all for — all for what? All for what? Because Trump, you know, had an affair with a porn star? That\u2019s really what this is about.<\/p>\n

ARNOLD: Yep.<\/p>\n

COHEN: There\u2019s no tax evasion. And HELOC? I have 18% load value on my home.<\/p>\n

ARNOLD: Right!<\/p>\n

COHEN: How could there be a HELOC issue?<\/p>\n

ARNOLD: That\u2019s right. That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

COHEN: Right?<\/p>\n

ARNOLD: That\u2019s absolutely right.<\/p>\n

COHEN: It\u2019s a… It\u2019s a lie.<\/p>\n