As is often said – because it’s so obviously true – no one has been more accurate in his predictions than Michael Cohen. Just three weeks ago we reported on the fact that Cohen said that, among other reasons, he believed Trump took the files as ammunition to trade or protect himself (this doesn’t exclude the espionage possibility) and we had a report on Friday from the New York Times that Trump wanted to trade these documents for the FBI’s files on “Russia, Russia, Russia,” almost like Trump wants to make sure that those files aren’t sitting around for the government to have, almost like he knows he barely got by. At least that’s one read, speculation.

This morning Cohen gave the FBI some tips. They should listen.

First and foremost, they are not his,” he added. “Second of all, we know that he has more documents. We know that because in the file folder, it would specifically state the number of documents in them. Well there are more of them obviously out there.”

“On top of that, we should find out whether or not he photocopied any of the documents as well,” he continued. “Now he is playing the art of the deal, and he did not write that book anyways. But he’s playing the art of the deal, where he says ‘I will trade you this for that,’ — this is beyond unheard of.”

“If it was you, certainly if it was me, we would be in jail in 24 hours,” he elaborated. “The fact they are placating him only gives him the belief that he has more power than what he originally does. And think about what he is asking: ‘I will trade you this top-secret information, but I want information on the Russian investigation.’ Well here is a little side note for Donald, I hope he’s watching the program today. You are the president of the United States for four years, you had your lapdogs from Jeff Sessions to Attorney General Bill Barr in there. You could’ve gotten them, of course you could have.”

It would be shocking if Trump didn’t copy the documents, though many of us always believed that these documents were impossible to copy. Any attempt to copy led to black pages coming out of the copier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j260wFX-Lb8

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[email protected], @JasonMiciak, with Nicole Hickman