The president's former personal attorney, on the cusp of doing hard time in a penitentiary for lying to Congress, once again tells Congress his story
Start with a cheese omelet at dawn in the staff cafeteria in the basement of the United States Capitol—after all, it’s the most important meal of the day. The chef is a big man named O—–, cheerful and exuberant, piloting a hot grill on a cold morning.“Gonna stay right here,” he answers. Then, suddenly, the banter gets more serious.
And why shouldn’t it be their goal? This is how the game has been played in the American capitol since the 1790s, and in London and Ottawa and Canberra, and in parliaments wherever there are free elections and competing parties and open competition for power, and not the dictates of a single Rocket Man or a hereditary emir or a bare-chested strongman on a steed.
It is Cohen’s last public performance before the curtain falls; his next audience—and a captive audience it will be, beginning May 6—will have names like El Chapo and Sammy the Bull. Then will come the book, the movie, the redemptive afterlife. “Every day, we came in and knew we were going to lie for him on something, and that became the new norm,” Cohen says. “And that’s exactly what’s happening now in this country.”
Against this fictional fabulousness, then, what’s a mere hundred-thirty grand for a romp with a playmate or a porn star?“No,” says Michael Cohen, pricking everyone’s balloon.
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