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I’m Michael A. Cohen, and this is Truth and Consequences: A no-holds-barred look at the absurdities, hypocrisies, and surreality of American politics. If you were sent this email or are a free subscriber and would like to become a paid subscriber, you can sign up here.

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I have a new piece up at MSNBC on the White House’s pathetic response to Signal Group Chat-Gate … and why it’ll likely work.

The White House, the Republican Party and their MAGA media mouthpieces think the American people are idiots.

That’s the only explanation for the Trump administration’s ludicrous, insulting, borderline Orwellian response to the revelation that top national security officials were discussing a military strike in Yemen — and revealing what was very likely classified information about it — on the Signal messaging app with the unbeknownst presence of Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic. And it’s the only explanation for Trump’s enablers in Congress and right-wing media going straight into deny-at-all-costs mode.

Over the past four days, the White House’s response to the emerging scandal has followed a familiar playbook — denial, obfuscation, attacks on critics, gaslighting and whataboutism. The sad part is, considering that many of the president’s supporters will believe every word he says, combined with the cowardice of Trump’s GOP congressional allies, it’ll likely work.

Read the whole thing here.

Don’t forget I’ll be Zoom chatting at noon today - send me your questions in advance, either in the comments below or via email.

See ya in a few hours.