Ever since I was a child, my mother always taught me to remember that the worst truth was better than the best lie. She’d whip out this adage anytime she had some inclination that what I had recently told her wasn’t the whole truth, nothing but the truth, but in fact, a bald-faced lie. I recall one evening where I was heading to the house of a friend who lived a considerable distance away.
At that point in my driving career, I hadn’t learned how to operate a vehicle on a highway, so my mother made me promise I would take side streets. Unbeknownst to her, the highway shaved off about twenty minutes of the drive, so naturally, I winged it and made it safely to my friend’s place. I held onto that lie for several weeks until she found out and made me take the bus for the rest of high school. I bring up this story not to bore you, but to demonstrate that all liars must come to terms with their deceit one way or another and that it could’ve been much simpler to just come clean and get it over with.
A bombshell report released by Buzzfeed News late yesterday evening claims that President Donald Trump personally directed his former lawyer Michael Cohen “to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter.” To those of you who have just about had it with media coverage surrounding our President, imagine how the millions of Americans who voted him into office must feel after hearing about this news.
Over the last two years of the Trump presidency, much has been brought up regarding his behavior as commander-in-chief, with phrases like “obstruction of justice” and “impeachment” coming out of the mouths of Democrats and several disgruntled Republicans. The new report from Buzzfeed alleges that Trump not only “directed” and “personally instructed” Cohen to lie to Congress, but that the goal of these mistruths was “to obscure Trump’s involvement” in the Trump Tower Moscow venture.
Since the release of the report, Democratic leaders have been screaming “obstruction of justice” so loud that even the people in the cheap seats are irritated with the high-decibel blathering.
My opinion, which I can guess might be largely unpopular, is that Americans and left-leaning politicians have had qualms with Trump since he was inaugurated, and in that time, headlines have emerged detailing immoral platitudes made by the President via his official presidential twitter, as well as a need for a federal investigation into whether he colluded with foreign powers to secure the Presidential seat. If the Democratic leadership wanted to introduce articles of impeachment, what’s been the hold up from doing so?
I believe that Trump may be unimpeachable at this point, that is unless the Buzzfeed News report ends up being true and he did direct Michael Cohen to lie under oath in front of the United States Congress.
Back in June, about a month before special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation started heating up, President Trump fired Michael Cohen after his residences and homes were raided by the FBI. Lying awake in anguish every night, Cohen couldn’t stomach his relationship with Trump and eventually decided to cooperate with Mueller. Michael Cohen was sentenced to 36 months in jail for nine counts of felony charges, including being charged with scheming to help secure the Trump presidency.
“I have been living in personal and mental incarceration ever since the day that I accepted the offer to work for a real estate mogul whose business acumen I deeply admired. Today is one of the most meaningful days of my life. The irony is that today I get my freedom back.”
-Michael Cohen
Following his sentencing, Cohen sang like a canary, to anyone that would listen, about the suspicious activities he partook in whilst serving as Trump’s legal counsel. Cohen admitted that he and several Trump aides continued negotiations with Russian entities about the Trump tower project in Moscow well into the 2016 presidential campaign. He blamed “his blind loyalty to this man [Trump] which led him “to take a path of darkness instead of light.”
As for the fate of our forty-fifth president, we’ll just have to wait and see if Buzzfeed’s report will substantiate a major move by the Democratic leadership, or perhaps their lackadaisical nature will buy Trump a couple more months to come up with a backup plan.
