Before we set this scene, we’ve got to say, Cohen is a serious pro. Pro liar, granted. But this little move is classic. He’s conned a Hollywood C-list celeb with promises of tittle tattle just like he conned the president by promising loyalty and honesty. The gullible O’Donnell thinks she’s suddenly become a muckraker, when in reality Cohen is using her to make a fast buck and extend his 15 minutes of fame.

So, Cohen is staring at the walls in his prison cell when he gets a letter from Rosie. This is according to The Daily Beast and a source at the the New York Post, as reported on Saturday. “I wrote him a letter the day that Trump got impeached,” O’Donnell, 58, told the site, saying she ‘found his inmate number online.’ She forgave him for his attacks on her in a letter she says left him ‘so moved’ he “started crying.’”

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Okay, stop here. Can’t you just see it? This guy, this shark, this shyster gets a letter from a has-been actress and starts crying? Tears of joy that he found another sucker.

“In that letter, she told Cohen that she found it ‘mind-boggling’ that he was ‘sitting in jail for doing exactly what the boss told you to do’. No matter how long it took you, you’ll be known and respected for that as much as any horror you’ve committed through him,” she wrote to Cohen. So, hold on. He gets respect from Rosie for “doing exactly what the boss (the president) told you to do”? Isn’t that…why does she…let’s move on.

The source said, “Rosie and Michael have bonded over Trump, and she’s helping him with his book, which is highly critical of the president. He’s in the midst of writing it, and is nearly done writing it, and hopes that it’ll be out before the election. ‘Michael and I talked a lot about how he got involved in Trump, how it’s a cult, and what role he played not only in Trump Inc. He told me what chapters he was doing in his book, and on my way home, I was writing about what had happened between us, and I gave him my breakdown of things that should be in chapters. I said, ‘You should tell this story as a chapter, you should tell this story as a chapter.'”

Key word being: chapter. As in the Chapter 7 situation Rosie will be in when Cohen gets through with using her as a meal ticket.

“He grew up on Long Island like I did, he’s a few years younger, and he reminds me of my brothers. I look at this guy and go, ‘How did he fall under the spell of that charlatan?’”

So just a couple of idealistic Long Island kids with nothing else to do but make up stories about the president of the United States. Stories, of course, that will likely have no independent confirmation. Just the words of a disgraced lawyer and a Hollywood type so desperate for relevance that, when she’s not tweeting insane appeals and theories on the president, spends her time hanging around jail cells cavorting with the inmates. But only a certain inmate. One who saw her coming a mile away.