I agree with your assessment of Cohen. But I query, "I cannot understand the attitude..." The enemy of my enemy being my friend might well be wrong, but it isn't hard to understand. (View Post)

The risk in relation to perjury in this case is quite low, I think. This is a civil case, where the verdict will be based on balance of probabilities. The most direct clash in testimony is between Tr… (View Post)

You think wrong (well, clearly there wasn't a full scale civil war but there wasn't in the US after 6 January either). There was a violent insurrection by his supporters in January, far lar… (View Post)

Andrew Johnson quite famously. But the circumstances of succeeding to the Presidency post-Civil War as Lincoln's VP, and being widely acknowledged to have made a total horlicks of it, were unusu… (View Post)

I think you and SSI are probably right. It's his availability at odds of upwards of 1000-1 that creates the slight temptation. But it would take an outlandish set of circumstances that probably … (View Post)