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As @lasvegan didn't reply to this particular question, I will. Cohen was convicted of lying to Congress when he told them that the deal to build Trump Tower Moscow ended in January 2016, when actually it ended in June 2016. He did this in order to be 'consistent with Trump's "repeated...

Out of interest, could you explain the specific reason why Michael Cohen was convicted of perjury, and why he says he did it?

That is actually quite thought provoking. I've recently been hearing a lot about equity of outcomes as opposed to equity of opportunity, and it seems like that is a debate that isn't actually recent - merely continuing. Personally I have found the trend for diversity quotas (which seems, to me...

Possibly off topic, though Trump is briefly mentioned, but here is Ben Elton discussing modern politics with Andrew Marr.

I do wonder why Mr Trump has such bad luck with his hires though. He tells us he only hires the best people, but so many of them seem to end up with legal difficulties.

Don't trust the guy who I asked to lie (and commit fraud) for me, he's a liar!

I do hope you haven't ever mistaken me for being a Trump supporter? 🤔

There does appear to be a cultural norm these days that it is unacceptable to admit when you are wrong or that your position has changed (or is different from your peers) - as people that do are attacked and ridiculed for doing so. This seems to lead to a social pressure from their peers to...

This demonstrates well that you can't tell what a person thinks about any issue from their known opinion about one specific one.

That article reads as an opinion piece and is rather vague on the facts, it doesn't specify which charges the author thinks are incorrect (though I note that Judge Merchan has now tossed six of the thirty four due to a lack of specificity). I was hoping for something a little more persuasive of...

Not quite, he said he'd be a dictator 'on day one', rather than 'from'. The question is how much damage could he do in that one day?

Everyone? As best I can tell that is a narrative almost entirely driven by Mr Trump himself. Please let us not forget that most of these trials, including the Florida documents case, came about because Grand Juries in those jurisdictions made recommendations that the defendant be charged...

Muller was set up? Or Trump? All I know is that the Muller investigation was commenced by the DoJ under President Trump, and concluded whilst he was still in office.

Populists prosper when a significant percentage of people think that they are being ignored or mispresented. I think @Zeberdi has quite well outlined a number of key issues that have brought us to the current global discontent where the choices made by the political minority have the appearance...

The Muller Inquiry? The one that concluded that Russia did interfere with the 2016 election, but while it couldn't provide sufficient evidence that Mr Trump directly colluded with Russia in that interference, it could not exonerate him of obstructing the Inquiry itself. Yes, that definitely...

Yes, I thought that was a bit odd too, given the general tone of the piece. Though, I suppose you could argue that it handily illustrates the point he makes - viewing 'woke' as all bad is intelligent people believing stupid things.

I'm just going to drop this here, as I found it thought provoking, and also relevant in that I think we all need to be open to the possibility that we might be wrong:

I see Mr Trump has been given a ten day extension to pay a massively reduced bond of $175 million for the appeal on his fraud case (it was $464 million). Another example of how unfairly he is being treated.

Exactly what Mr Trump does from what I have observed.

Corrected for you.