lOS ANGELES.–Former President Bill Clinton chief defender in the Monica Lewishky scandal, 78-year-old Democrat attorney Lanny Davis now give his two cents about whether a jury of former President Donald Trump’s peers should convict him this week in his Manhattan hush money trial. Davis is a Democrat hack, someone without a shred of objectivity, a true company man, a true believer in the Democrat cause. Star witness in the hush money trial Michael Cohen used Davis as his attorney in his multiple felonies unrelated to Trump but discussed in the Democrat-controlled press as all charges linked to Trump. Cohen lost his law license for crimes unrelated to Trump involved in lying to Congress in 2019, illegally selling New York City Taxi medallions for millions, then not reporting the income, charged and convicted of income tax evasion among other related crimes.
Davis now wants to get back in the news talking on Trump-hating MSNBC, conjecturing about the evidence in Trump’s hush money trials. Fake news like CNN and MSNBC wants Trump convicted in the worst way, just like rooting for their home football teams. “The testimony and the documents speak for themselves,” Davis told Sharpton. “In the testimony from Donald Trump adherents and loyalists, David Pecker, Hope Hicks all testified that the money that Donald Trump directed Michael Cohen to give to Stormy Daniels, an adult film star, to keep her quiet before the election,” Davis said. Davis, who poorly represented Cohen in his multiple felony charges, likes to sound relevant when he’s a Democrat has-been, much like Bill Clinton’s former strategist James Carville. No one other that the most partisan hacks care about what Davis thinks.
Davis says the “facts speak for themselves,” but do they really? Why, if the evidence against Trump was so overwhelming, would Manhattan District Atty. Alvin Bragg use Cohen, disbarred, disgraced, convicted felon, as his star witness? Bragg’s case against Trump is all about bookkeeping, whether it was reasonable for Trump to record his extortion payment to Stormy Daniels as a legal expense. Well, if you’re a celebrity and real estate tycoon like Trump, blackmail and extortion plots go with the territory. Davis doesn’t want to talk about that with Sharpton, the preacher who has a history of racist lies in the infamous New York Tawana Brawley case, where a Black teenager accused a gang of White men of rape, something completely fabricated. Davis feels right at home speaking to one of the most corrupt Black preachers in U.S. history.
Davis knows that jurors in Trump’s hush money trial must sort through the prosecution’s propaganda, charging Trump with 34 felonies when recording payment as a legal expense was perfectly reasonable to any other prosecutor, including former Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. who refused to prosecute Trump because of a lack of evidence. Yet to the partisan hack Davis, he says the “evidence speaks for itself.” Juror must decide whether they can accept testimony from Cohen, a known perjurer who admitted to stealing untold amounts of cash from the Trump Organization. “In February 2019, I said, “Michael, the only way you’re going to be believed is to own your lies, and admit them on national television under oath before Congress, and that what he did,” Davis said. What kind of legal advice is that? Sounds like Davis was working for New York State.
Trump’s case is not as Davis says about whether Trump paid of an adult film star alleging a one night stand with Trump in 2016, 10 years before he ran for president. Davis knows the case before the jury is whether it was reasonable for Trump to record the payment to Stormy Daniels as part of his legal expense, since Cohen is the one who handled, as Trump’s “fixer,” all his legal matters. Bragg’s case tries to convince the jury that a bookkeeping error, if there was one, should be prosecuted as a felony. Davis sees nothing wrong with Bragg upgrading all of Trump’s charges to felonies since he, like other Democrats and the press, want to undermine Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. So far, voters are only energized by all the fake charges against Trump in multiple cases. Davis, the clever propagandist, tells Sharpton what he wants to hear: Trump is guilty as charged.
Lanny Davis has less credibility that Michael Cohen, once defending Hillary Rodham Clinton’s claim that the Monica Lewinsky story was the product of a “vast right wing conspiracy,” that was Davis’s idea. Imagine that, a smoke blower of the highest order now opines about Trump’s guilt to partisan hack Al Sharpton on Trump-hating MSNBC. Where’s the public in listening to the kind to rubbish put out on U.S. airwaves? “Documents speak for themselves. ‘believe your own lying eyes’ is what’s going to happen in the jury room,” Davis told Sharpton. “They don’t have to use anything that Michael Cohen said,” making the point that Cohen has zero credibility to the jury. Davis knows that Cohen worked for Trump as his “fixer” attorney and he took care of an extortionist before the 2016 election. How is that not a legal expense to Trump?
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
