How Roseanne’s ex-husband and a shunned Trump ally could well bring down Donald’s Regime
It has become abundantly clear that celebrity bully and putative, lost-the-popular-vote American “president” Donald Trump has kicked his former fixer… ahem, excuse me, personal lawyer Michael Cohen to the curb. Trump had agreed to cover a number of aides’ legal costs; he is not doing so for Cohen.
In the last few days, new developments suggest that Cohen may be ready to cooperate with federal and state investigations into Trump. Late Wednesday, NBC News confirmed that Cohen had hired a new lawyer: Guy Petrillo, an experienced ex-prosecutor who has been the mediator in deals between criminal suspects and prosecutors. Early Thursday, Cohen quit as a deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee and denounced Trump’s immigrant family separation policy.
And late yesterday, actor Tom Arnold — former husband of Roseanne Barr and an outspoken critic of Trump whose mockery of the ex-real-estate-mogul has made Twitter a far more lively place, tweeted this:
I love New York pic.twitter.com/J7AJg1HiHo
— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) June 22, 2018
We don’t believe we need to tell you that is Michael Cohen and Tom Arnold, both grinning for a selfie.
Why are these men smiling? Well, Tom dropped a hint to a fellow Tweep:
Tom, you tease! What could the two of you be up to?
Well, NBC News has the answer. Arnold
happens to be working on a show with Vice that features him hunting for unflattering video of Trump.
Arnold told NBC News early Friday that Cohen ― who is under investigation by federal prosecutors ― talked to him for the show, which is expected to air later this year.
“We’ve been on the other side of the table and now we’re on the same side,” said Arnold, an outspoken Trump critic.
“It’s on! I hope he [Trump] sees the picture of me and Michael Cohen and it haunts his dreams.”
… [Arnold] said he was in New York taping interviews for the Vice show and that he and Cohen met at the Loews Regency Hotel in Manhattan.
Vice announced in May that it had tapped Arnold to helm a show called “The Hunt for the Trump Tapes,” and investigate whether rumored tapes from the past showing the president in a negative light actually exist.
“The host will draw on his high-profile network of celebrity friends, entertainment executives, and crew members he’s met over more than 35 years in showbiz to dig for evidence on Trump’s most incriminating moments — and, being a comedian and all, he’ll have a little fun along the way,” Vice said in the announcement of the show.
What happens if, say, the tapes reveal illegal acts by Trump? Can you say, “blue wave impeachment tsunami, probably with sufficient help from fed-up GOPers”?
Get your DVRs ready, kids. Sounds like this Vice offering will never get old!
