A senior White House official dismissed Cohen’s commentary on Russia as baseless, arguing that numerous investigations found “no collusion” between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
A senior White House official dismissed Cohen’s commentary on Russia as baseless, arguing that numerous investigations found “no collusion” between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Cohen asserts that another reason that Trump consistently praised Putin was to fulfill his long-held desire to slap his name on a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow.
“The whole idea of patriotism and treason became irrelevant in his mind,” Cohen writes. “Trump was using the campaign to make money for himself: of course he was.”
Trump would later publicly insist that he had no business dealings with Russia. But Cohen writes extensively of his own efforts beginning in the fall of 2015 — several months after Trump had declared his candidacy — to make the Moscow project a reality.
The project fell to Cohen, he writes, because Trump’s children all disliked Felix Sater, the colorful Russian American developer who served as the Trump Organization’s liaison with Russians interested in the project.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Nevertheless, Cohen says the whole family was aware of the project, even as candidate Trump publicly said he had no ties to Russia. Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter, who is now a senior White House adviser, even selected the proposed tower’s high-end finishes, Cohen writes.
Ivanka and her lawyers have previously described her involvement in the Russia project as minimal, noting that she never visited the prospective site.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
In 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the Trump Moscow project, as well as to violating campaign finance laws by paying Daniels to remain silent. Cohen told the court that he had been directed to make the payment to Daniels — and later reimbursed for the money — by Trump.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Beyond Russia’s role in the 2016 elections and the Daniels payment, Cohen seeds the rest of his book with snippets of gossip from his time in Trump’s orbit — some of it new, some of it well-known and much of it familiar.
He describes Trump insulting and dismissing some of his children, including Donald Trump Jr., his eldest son, and Tiffany, his youngest daughter.
Cohen writes that during the 2016 campaign, Trump was dismissive of minorities, describing them as “not my people.” “I will never get the Hispanic vote,” Cohen recounts Trump claiming. “Like the blacks, they’re too stupid to vote for Trump.”
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Cohen describes Trump’s obsessive hatred of Obama, including claiming that the only reason the former president got into Columbia University and Harvard Law School was because of “f---ing affirmative action.” He also recounts Trump’s “low opinion of all black folks.” claiming that Trump once said while ranting about Obama, “Tell me one country run by a black person that isn’t a s---hole. They are all complete f---ing toilets.”
After South African President Nelson Mandela died in 2013, Trump said he did not think Mandela “was a real leader — not the kind he respected,” Cohen writes.
Instead, Cohen writes that Trump praised the country’s apartheid-era White rule, saying: “Mandela f---ed the whole country up. Now it’s a s---hole. F--- Mandela. He was no leader.”
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Cohen writes that before winning the presidency, Trump held a meeting at Trump Tower with prominent evangelical leaders, where they laid their hands on him in prayer. Afterward, Trump allegedly said: “Can you believe that bulls--t? Can you believe people believe that bulls--t?”
“The cosmic joke was that Trump convinced a vast swathe of working-class white folks in the Midwest that he cared about their well-being,” Cohen writes. “The truth was that he couldn’t care less.”
Cohen also depicts Trump as being crude toward women, including inadvertently commenting on Cohen’s then-15-year-old daughter as she finished up a tennis lesson: “Look at that piece of a--,” Trump said, according to Cohen. “I would love some of that.”
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Cohen’s book ends with something of a plea — though one that requires the reader to trust Cohen’s account of his time in the Trump orbit.
“You now have all the information you need to decide for yourself in November,” Cohen concludes.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Cohen has more credibility now that he isn't lying and bullying people for Heir Drumpf.Originally Posted by nsacpi
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I included the White House reaction to leaven things with a little humor.
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"I am your retribution."
Faux - Bama ! ! !
LMAO
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The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
goldfly (09-06-2020)
Trump steps off the golf course and takes a swing at John McCain, as Losergate continues
With the news cycle exploding over reports that Donald Trump called American soldiers who died to stop a German attack on Paris “losers” and “suckers,” it’s obvious that Trump had only one choice: Spend the day honoring America’s military by chasing a little white ball around his private golf course in Virginia.
But if Trump’s scheduled for Saturday seemed incredibly callous and tone deaf, his continuing reaction to the scandal is just as predictable as the way he shaves off just a few strokes on his scorecard. Trump’s most recent tweets starts off with a series of lies about all the great things he’s done for the military. A list that for some reason doesn’t include stealing the money that was meant to be used for housing, schools, and hospitals to be used for his nonexistent and useless “Wall.” Then Trump declared that The Atlantic author Jeffrey Goldberg was a “slimeball reporter” who was ruining all his hard work in doing things like the Veteran’s Choice bill that President Obama actually signed.
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Which is not answering the question asked. It's really easy to take questions when they don't answer them.
When is Trump going to answer real questions? Not staged questions from OANN and not filibustering with nonsense questions by real journalists. Marshawn Lynch does a better job answering questions from the media.
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"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/osama-bi...endorses-trump
Trump picking up the crucial Bin Laden endorsement
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
https://www.businessinsider.com/cohe...rce=reddit.com
In terms of Derangement syndrome, how does hiring an Obama lookalike to belittle and "fire" rank? Why not go full wwe and bring out an Obama midget.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Lol
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