Cohen Flips, Writes Book, Another Dream

One month after Covid-19 quarantine

Sometimes I have prescient dreams, and on occasion, they involve a U.S. president. On June 23, 2018 I had one of those.

The mutual detention dream

I had gone to bed way too late the night before and got up too early, so I was sleepy all morning. That called for a sofa nap in the afternoon (a frequent occurrence with me these days). Just before waking up, I dreamt these words, “Mr. President, your cot next to Michael (?)’s cot.” The cots were in the corner of a large, temporary tent like those set up to house immigrants applying for asylum. I don’t know why the last name was muddled, but I feel it was done deliberately. Then I was suddenly awake.

There are only a few Michaels of import in the Trump story. One is Flynn and another is Cohen. So that aspect of the dream is a mystery for a future day. Cohen had not yet flipped at the time, and I wondered if it meant he would.

If the dream is prophetic, and if Cohen is the Michael, it doesn’t mean that Trump and Cohen will be in a literal detention camp tent. It means that any favor or protection that Trump had to get elected was ripped away mainly due to his sadistic immigration policy. It might infer that Trump (I’ll never call him President Trump) and Cohen are in for the same crime. In fact, Cohen was indicted specifically for setting up payments to two porn stars to keep them quiet about affairs that Donnie had with them. One of them had sex with him shortly after Melania had given birth to their son Barron. Cohen saved a recording of his phone conversation with Trump while they decided how to arrange the payoff. Cohen had gone to Delaware to set up a shell corporation to launder the payment. He insisted on a check from the Trump organization. This was in fact how they passed the money. So Donald Trump was labeled “an unindicted co-conspirator.” The only reason that he was not indicted is that he is a sitting president.

It turns out that for whatever reason, Cohen saved absolutely everything. Recordings, receipts, every scrap of paper. He turned it all over to the investigators.

On Mar 23, 2019, I wrote:  Cohen has indeed flipped. He is now calling Trump a “mad man.” He has testified before the new Dem House three times, twice behind closed doors and once openly. These testimonies lasted many hours. He is totally anti-Trump now. He has also implicated the Trump organization and his kids in major financial crimes.

The frame of favor

Two days previous to that, I heard a couple of phrases that didn’t come through clearly, so I wouldn’t bet grandma’s farm on it, but the first was “You’re in for the fight of your life,” then a little later, “Remove the frame of favor.” I assumed at the time that the frame of favor is the protection around Trump by Evangelicals and GOP Senators. That would suggest that the favor that has surrounded Trump would begin to erode. However, that favor has not flagged a bit, so it may be that the frame of protection may be God’s favor.

The “fight” may have referred to the Mueller Report, which was sent to Attorney Gen Barr on March 22, 2019, the day before I journaled about Cohen’s flip and the day after I heard the phrases. So those phrases came to me the day before the report was turned over to DOJ. That caused me to take them seriously.

And now, in April of 2020, we can certainly recall what a fight it was. Barr hung onto the report for some time. First he said that he read it, and he and Rosenstein interpreted it to say that there was no crime committed. Nothing to see, so no need to bandy it about. Mueller was furious. He and his team worked on that report for two years. It came in two parts, plus a summary. The first part oddly found no conspiracy with the Russians on behalf of the Trump campaign or the election. That was stunning and disappointing. In fact, there was plenty of collusion, but perhaps no over-arching conspiracy organized by one person or one office. And none of it could be forensically tied to Donald Trump, although the circumstantial evidence was immense that he knew of all the many contacts between his team members and the Russians.

The second part laid out a very clear case for obstruction of justice, which is a crime. But, due to the restriction on indicting a sitting president, Mueller’s team felt it was unfair to recommend indictment because the president cannot defend himself if there is no trial. They made it clear they were not exonerating the president, but were restrained from stating clearly that the president should be indicted. Trump and team, of course, took the report as total vindication.

Part of the fight was to get Congress to agree to hear Mueller testify. Then they had to convince him to do so. When Mueller was finally dragged before Congress for grinding interrogation, he did not perform well. He seemed to be struggling to make it through the session, as if his health was failing in some way.

The report was highly redacted. There was a fight for the report to be given to Congress. Then there was the fight to get an unredacted version of it to Congress. It went through the courts, and all along, the Republicans called it a witch hunt and a disgrace. That all went on for months. In the end, the report was so vague that it faded into the memory hole and was buried by daily scandals and shocks and fights.

I now think that the “frame of favor” was God’s favor. Trump got away with everything in the early years. He proved to be exactly what the psychologists of the Duty to WARN group called him—an abusive, arrogant “malignant narcissist.” He had at his right hand Steven Miller, a white nationalist racist, whose strongest drive in life is to stop all immigration into the U.S. The torment inflicted on the Mexicans, Hondurans, Colombians, etc. running from the poverty and the violent cartels of South America we can attribute to him and other advisers of his ilk.

The Trump Hall of Shame

As for Attorney General William Barr, almost 3,000 former District Attorneys signed a letter calling for his resignation recently. He is partisan and sly. He will ultimately destroy the DOJ and any possibility of independence for this department if Trump gets elected again. He now wants to pursue and torment, and possibly indict, the FBI agents that investigated Trump and the Russian interference in the 2016 election. He says it was an American travesty of persecution against Trump. Already six top FBI officers who served with James Comey have been fired, retired, or sidelined in the most degrading way possible. Somehow the FBI Director, Christopher Wray, keeps his head down and his mouth shut, so he is still in place.

So Cohen did go to prison with a three year sentence. Trump’s other associates were also indicted. Paul Manafort is in for seven years. After a year of delay, Michael Flynn got some kind of deal and walked. Rick Gates received a short sentence of forty-five days and served it. After a short time in prison, Maria Butina was sent back to Russia where she was greeted as a hero. Roger Stone was sentenced last February to 3 years and 4 months. He says he has found Jesus through the ministrations of Jerry Falwell, Jr. Stone is “praying” for a pardon from Trump. The Trump “baby Christian” has not exactly repented of his misdeeds because he still claims that the investigation of him was a hoax. The indicted Russians, of course, will never be tried, but neither can they come to the U.S. or any country where we have an extradition treaty.

There are rumbles through Twitter that the intelligence community thinks that Trump is truly in the pocket of Putin. And why shouldn’t they think that? The Russians are bragging about it on their state TV shows. Trump and Putin have had several phone calls this month of Corona Crisis April. They are getting along quite well. Are there readouts of the phone calls? I don’t know. I’m not sure anyone does, because I haven’t seen any reporting on them.

Now here’s the fun part. Michael Cohen was recently released from prison due to the threat of the corona virus in the prisons. He says he has been writing a book about his 12 years of working closely with Donald Trump. It’s a tell all. It has a publisher, and he says it will come out before the election. I occasionally pray for his safety, because we all know what happened to Jeffrey Epstein. I can’t wait to read that book.