( CNN) “When you're attacking FBI agents because you're under criminal investigation, you're losing, ” Sarah Sanders, then a Donald Trump campaign aide, famously saidof Hillary Clinton supporters before the 2016 presidential election. Although she has repeatedly struggled with the facts — and now serves as White House press secretary — Sanders' apt tweet remains wisdom for the ages.
On Thursday, we insured yet another round of efforts to attack researchers after Michael Cohen, the President's former lawyer and fixer, pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about Trump's business dealings with Russia. While the President has maintained he had “nothing to do with Russia, ” Cohen told a federal court on Thursday that, acting as Trump's representative, he had been in communication with the Russian government about a proposed Trump Tower in Moscow during the presidential campaign. Cohen previously told Congress that talks surrounding the project ended before the Iowa caucuses, but they continued for at least six months longer.
Faced with the new revelations made available to the public by his lawyer-turned-nemesis, Trump returned to familiar territory and lashed out against his accuser, along with Mueller and the investigation as a whole. He called Cohen a weak liar, while branding Mueller and his team of independent public servants “a total disgrace.”
