In a shameful article, the Associated Press [AP] showed its anti-Trump bias for all to see, publishing a story about Trump’s 54-year-old disbarred, disgraced and convicted felon former personal attorney Michael Cohen. How in the wildest stretch of imagination is it newsworthy for the AP to report on Cohen’s trashy, vindictive Scarlet Letter, written purely to retaliate against Trump? Cohen, a disbarred attorney, violated every legal ethical principle, ratting out privileged communication for personal gain. Now that Cohen can’t make a living as an attorney, he’s peddling his smut to any-and-all takers, today at the AP. Cohen reprised the Stormy Daniels affair in his memoir, “Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump.” Cohen served Trump until Aug. 21, 2018 when he was convicted of multiple felonies, including tax evasion, bank and wire fraud, etc.
Cohen’s friends in the anti-Trump press, like the AP, don’t say he was sentenced Dec. 12, 2018 to multiple felonies, including campaign finance violations for paying off Stormy Daniels and former Playboy centerfold Karen McDougal. Before the election Trump was extorted by Daniels and McDougal for alleged affairs in 2011, years before he considered running for president. Cohen told the press Jan. 13, 2916 that no affair with Stormy Daniels every occurred, admitting Feb. 13, 2016 that he paid her $130,000. Former Secretary of State and Democrat nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton accused Trump of violating campaign election law, paying “hush money” stop Daniels from disclosing her past affair with Trump. Cohen admitted at the time that he paid Storny to avoid a bigger settlement with Melania Trump. Yet Hillary hammered the idea the Trump violated campaign finance laws.
When former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart (D-Col.) ran for the Democrat nomination in 1988, he was also confronted with an affair, paying her money to keep her quiet during the campaign. Unlike Trump in 2016, Hart was hounded out of the campaign in 1988, eventually charged with campaign finance violations. Hart was acquitted because a jury couldn’t find him guilty of campaign finance violations for paying money to a mistress to keep her from ruining his marriage. Yet it you listen to AP’s article, they want to revisit Trump’s alleged campaign finance violations. “It never pays to settle these things, but, many, many friends advised me to pay,” Trump allegedly said in 2016. “If it comes out, I’m not sure how it would play with supporters. But I bet they’d think it’s cool that I slept with a porn star,” repeating Cohen’s account. Revisiting the Stormy Daniels affair shows the AP’s bias.
Obtaining an early copy to Cohen’s book, the AP targeted Trump at a time he’s responding on multiple fronts to wild allegations, including that he disparaged U.S. war-dead in France in 2018. White House called Cohen’s book, “Fan Fiction.” “He [Cohen] readily admits to lying routinely but expects people to believe him now so that he can make money from book sales.” “It’s unfortunate that the media is exploiting this sad and desperate man to attack President Trump,” read a White House statement. When you consider that Trump’s 71-year-old former National Security Adviser John Bolton already wrote his worthless tell-all tabloid story for media consumption, it’s not surprising that the anti-Trump press would seek more dirt. After Trump’s niece, Mary L. Trump, published her tell-all fantasy, “Too Much and Never Enough,” you’d think thing’s couldn’t get worse, then Cohen get in his two cents.
What’s most disturbing is not the Bolton, Mary Trump and Cohen try to capitalize on book sales, it’s that credentialed news organizations like the AP gives it any credibility. It’s not news for Cohen to spew his vitriol against Trump. But it’s speaks volumes about today’s sad state of journalism when once respectable news organizations go all in with convicted felons. It wasn’t that long ago that disbarred-and-disgraced former Atty. Michael Avenatti appeared on CNN, MSNBC and any other broadcast or print outlet that would hear him out. Once he was convicted of extorting Nike Inc. on all counts Feb. 14, he was radioactive, actually an embarrassment to the media. Cohen never takes responsibility for his own criminal behavior, blaming Trump for committing income tax evasion and illegally selling New York City traffic medallions. How he blames Trump for that is astonishing.
Cohen’s book raises real problems with today’s journalism that no longer reports news but advances a political agenda aligned with the Democrat Party. For the AP to dignify anything coming out of Cohen’s mouth speaks volumes of how today’s media is driven by political bias, in this case to remove Trump from office. Trump runs his campaign against the mainstream press, often joking with the audience, drawing boos, about the media’s colossal dishonesty. Making anything Cohen’s book as news makes a mockery of the First Amendment, giving the press the “fifth column,” able to keep the government honest. But the press, as exemplified by the AP, has turned ethical journalism on its head, reporting on convicted felon because they hold information, whether true or not, to advance their political agenda. No one sees the press today as anything but a voice for the Democrat Party.
