Thread by @HNIJohnMiller

1) So, the #CohenTape. Let's think about this logically. There are 3 parties that could have leaked it. First, Cohen himself, to try to taint any investigation of him with controversy.

2) Second, there's the possibility that liberal partisans involved in the investigation could have leaked it. This is what people seem to be leaning heavily towards, and that's the party that would be in the most real trouble for leaking a privileged conversation.

3) Third, and stay with me here....

Trump himself.

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5) Think about this. Trump has a history of leaking materials about himself. Anyone remember the tax return incident last year?

6) Basically anything that the news media can spin about the leaked tape is mind reading at best. Listen to the tape. Everything is kept vague. What company? How much? What is 'so much stuff'? What's being dealt with?

7) A compilation put together on reddit courtesy of @SethAbramson is a shining fucking example of the mind reading occurring, mind reading of course being the assumption of motivations and thoughts behind statements reddit.com/r/POTUSWatch/c…

8) "The tape suggests many women, not just a few" Does it? Does it really suggest that? Or does it suggest a lot of PR management of unspecified stories and allegations? Or is there not enough information to make an informed allegation?

9) Also, the tape is presumably about ANOTHER porn star allegation. Trump's approval ratings have RISEN since Stormy Daniels, where the media literally beat themselves into the ground with wall to wall coverage until the story straight up died.

10) Trump, if he leaked the tape himself or at his direction, is literally leading the media by the nose into #fudgerule'ing themselves. The media is going to be breathlessly covering this story, and... no one will give a flying fuck after 2 days. It'll be forgotten next week.

11) By then following up with tweets and bringing attention to it, he's EXTENDING the news cycle. As per @LarrySchweikart's quoting of what Steve Bannon said, Trump could very well be flooding the zone and leading the MSM into ANOTHER Waterloo for themselves.

12) And then.... poof! It just becomes part of the 48 hour news cycle. Gone, might resurface like a shitty Jaws knockoff robot, then get forgotten again, and in a few weeks Trump will crest 50% approval and the media will screech WHY?!?

13) I dunno @cnn @NBCNews @nytimes @maggieNYT @mattapuzzo @nytmike @washingtonpost... maybe if you guys covered things Americans actually gave a flying fuck about as per your own polls, you wouldn't all be in a dying industry and continue to be further marginalized and ignored.

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