While Donald Trump’s decision to strike Syria may have distracted the general public and the news media – “Mission Accomplished,” indeed – Joy Reid did not flinch in covering the major scandal developments that broke just before Friday’s bombings.
She kicked off her show by ticking off a list of damning Trump news that came to light on the day of the air strikes.
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— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) April 14, 2018
Joy Reid explains the flurry of scandal developments that came out the day of Trump’s unscheduled Syria announcement:
Rod Rosenstein … is, quote, bracing to be fired by Donald Trump. There were the continued revelations from the blockbuster book by fired FBI director James Comey which drew attacks from Trump on Twitter and from the White House press secretary. After that came the reporting from ABC News and CNN that FBI agents seized recordings made by Donald Trump’s long-time fixer Michael Cohen, which included recordings between Cohen and the lawyer who represented two of the women who claimed to have had sexual relationships with Trump. We also learned that Cohen negotiated a $1.6 million settlement with a former model who said she had an affair with and got pregnant by Elliott Brody, a major trump backer and RNC deputy finance chair. Brody stepped down from his RNC post Friday evening. Next came the bombshell revelation from McClatchy that Mueller has evidence confirming a crucial piece of the Christopher Steele dossier that Michael Cohen did, indeed, travel to Prague in the summer of 2016 despite insisting to the media and congressional investigators that he has never set foot in Prague. All of this happened before the president announced the bombing of targets in Syria.
‘Collusion happened’: Michael Cohen Prague development is a bombshell
The most explosive revelation from Friday, which Reid touched on, is the news that Michael Cohen traveled to Prague in the summer of 2016 – after telling investigators that he didn’t. This confirms a key piece of the infamous Steele dossier.
As former deputy assistant secretary of defense Michael Carpenter tweeted on Friday, the Cohen revelation is a “huge development” that essentially proves “collusion happened.”
Huge development. If Michael Cohen is confirmed meeting Konstantin Kosachev in Prague, then collusion happened. As I note in the piece, “everyone knows Kosachev speaks for the Kremlin.” Another tantalizing fact: Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin was also in Prague at this time. https://t.co/ViAYukT7mW
— Michael Carpenter (@mikercarpenter) April 13, 2018
At the end of the day, Trump may think his Syria distraction was a “Mission Accomplished,” but it won’t help him run from the potentially criminal conduct of he and his allies.
The Robert Mueller investigation continues to turn over every stone, his personal lawyer is looking increasingly like a criminal and Trump’s history of silencing women is coming back to haunt him.
No number of ineffective air strikes will help this president outrun his corruption.
Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.
