COHEN LIED—ABOUT A “NO DEAL” IN RUSSIA—BIG DEAL? NO!

Bloomberg: Cohen lied about “closely guarded Trump secret”.  NYTimes:” Trump lawyer, felon and Russian general chase a Moscow deal”.

If the public trust is ever to be regained by the institutions of the state and the media—they will have to stop trying to generate indictments and for the media stitching together stories out of thin air.  But they seem unable to help themselves and they continue to erode the pubic trust.

The American public has common sense—they know when a story is worth the ink and paper (or electric current) it consumes is worth it or not.  Let’s take this story of Mr. Cohen’s (a Trump attorney) lie—about a long term plan by the Trump organization to build a sky scraper in Moscow,

All  businesses have  plans for the future—ideas for the growth, for entering a new venue,  pie in the sky projects...that is the stuff of the American entrepreneur.  Most of those plans may never come to fruition.  But some may.  That spirit of innovation is what makes the USA the greatest economy in the world.

So what is the big deal?  Yes candidate Trump—still a US businessman—had long term plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.  He had set in motion those tentative plans and his associates—as in any business large and small—continued to follow the potential plan.  What is the big story here?  

There is no indication of any wrong doing.  In fact the other side—the Democrats— had more interaction, sent activists to Moscow, used foreign organizations in the UK etc,etc. and had more sinister connections to the Russians than anything that has surfaced about the Trump candidacy or the Trump Administration.after the election.

These stories do not sit well with a common sense audience of Americans.