Mike most recently
embarrassed himself in a nationally televised interview by insisting over and over again that he was “taking responsibility” for his crimes.
Cohen is “taking responsibility” by going to prison the same way a deadbeat drunk is “taking responsibility” for being unemployed. When you’re fired from your job, “taking responsibility” is your only option.
There has never been a time that Cohen didn’t look like a delusional mess.
On Election Day 2016, after it was clear that Trump had won the presidency, Cohen
reportedlytold a group of friends, “Nobody's going to be able to **** with us. I think I'm going to run for mayor."
I imagine Cohen’s grandmother nearby offering an encouraging, “Some day you will, baby! You will!”
In March of last year, Cohen
referred to himself as Trump’s “Ray Donovan,” a TV character who made the problems of celebrities go away. If that was Cohen’s paid responsibility for Trump as a “fixer,” the president should ask for a full refund.
But classic Cohen is his
interview in 2015 with the Daily Beast, which sought comment from him for a story on Trump’s divorce from Ivana. Apparently unaware that Ray Donovan is not real, Cohen nonetheless channeled his fictional persona, telling the reporter, “So I’m warning you, tread very ******* lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be ******* disgusting. You understand me?”
Now that Cohen’s going to prison, though, he’s supposedly gone from Ray Donovan to repentant deacon.