'Dilbert' creator, Trump translator, and author of Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter, Scott Adams weighs in on the Paul Manafort/Michael Cohen "guilty" outcomes on Wednesday's edition of his daily Coffee With Scott Adams Periscope broadcasts.











All yesterday I was thinking, where is Carl Bernstein? Where's the guy they bring out to say "This Is Worse Than Watergate!"



So Carl Bernstein has become the "Worse Than Watergate!" guy, that is all he says, no matter what the situation is, whatever the situation is, it is worse than Watergate.



The president got a parking ticket -- it is worse than Watergate.



The president took a phone call -- it is worse than Watergate.



So they trotted him out, and what headline did they run, I just tweeted it? They run the headline, Carl Bernstein: This Is Worse Than Watergate!



And I thought, can I just write the news now?



What if I just do the news. I'll tell you what the news is a day ahead of time. Carl Bernstein will be on CNN, and he'll be saying This Is Worse Than Watergate!



There you've got your weird news of today. You've got something that shouldn't be illegal, probably isn't illegal, and if it were illegal it would be the smallest technical crime anybody has ever seen in the history of crimes because everybody came out ahead. What the Hell kind of crime is it where everybody comes out ahead?



How long is it going to take CNN to realize they don't have anything?



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Some people are saying that Cohen is accusing the president of being a criminal. The way it is being reported, I think Anderson Cooper said it this way. That Cohen in court, in court, accused the president of the U.S. of a federal offense. Of a federal crime. Did you see that? I didn't see any of that in my movie [skip to the beginning of the video for more on this]. In CNN's movie, Cohen said in court that the president committed a crime, and they are reporting it like that is a fact. That didn't happen. Nothing like that happened. I'll tell you what did happen. Cohen described what the president did, which was directing him to coordinate those payments.



If it is not illegal to coordinate those payments with your own money, and it is not, it is unambiguously not illegal to use your own money for stuff of this nature. What Cohen accused the president of doing is something that is totally legal.



