I'm seeing 3 main theories floated on Twitter for Cohen's meeting with Rotem Rosen & pals yesterday.

[highplainsdem]

1) Simple and apparently stupid arrogance. Their way of giving the finger to the Mueller and SDNY investigations.

2) Delivering a threat. Rosen & pals were there to remind Michael Cohen not to flip, that there are people in Russia he should fear more than the US investigators.

3) Sending a public reassurance. Cohen (presumably already aware of the possible threat) was making a very public show of associating with these people, to send a signal to Putin that he won't flip.

[JNelson6563]

1. Interesting.

Curious to see if he'll go up the river or sell out. The movie on this episode of our history is getting lengthy and complicated. It may have to be made as a trilogy or something.

[highplainsdem]

4. Agree it'll take more than one movie to tell this story. Plus a library of books, & an encyclopedia

to keep the characters and plot threads straight.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Come and get us, coppers!!

Yes. It was both middle-finger defiance as well as a signal of we-won't-snitch reassurance to Putin/Trump

In any regard, it was VERY unusual

[oberliner]

3. 1 and 3

[Honeycombe8]

5. 1 would be my guess. nt

[TeamPooka]

6. #4 Getting their story straight. nt

[Jakes Progress]

7. They are reminding him that he and his family

will die if he talks. Probably why the daughter was poisoned in London along with the father. Message sent.

So he rots in prison because he chose to be flunkey for mobsters.