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kentuck

(111,097 posts) Mon Apr 16, 2018, 10:48 AM Apr 2018

Why would an "upstanding businessman" like Donald Trump hire sleazy Michael Cohen as his lawyer?

And keep him on his payroll for so many years?

Could it be that Donald Trump is not the "upstanding businessman" as some are inclined to argue?

Could it be that Donald Trump is just as sleazy as his lawyer?

People are known by the company they keep and Michael Cohen is acting like Michael Corleone.

Donald Trump is acting like his father.

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Why would an "upstanding businessman" like Donald Trump hire sleazy Michael Cohen as his lawyer? (Original Post) kentuck Apr 2018 OP

Your question is a canard. dchill Apr 2018 #1

There are probably a couple of people that still believe he is an upstanding businessman? kentuck Apr 2018 #4

More or less 30% of murikans. dchill Apr 2018 #6

Mob bosses don't hire normal people dalton99a Apr 2018 #2

Why would a sleazy lawyer like Cohen risk what's left of his reputation by representing Trump? n/t Orsino Apr 2018 #3

Ah what? malaise Apr 2018 #5

Is it possible that Michael Cohen was trying to turn away from his early life The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2018 #7

Trump is gonna need to be Calling Saul pretty soon, he's out of other lawyers ;) mr_lebowski Apr 2018 #8

Michael Cohen? Who dat? gratuitous Apr 2018 #9

And Comey calls him "morally unfit"? kentuck Apr 2018 #10

dchill

(38,497 posts)

1. Your question is a canard.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 10:49 AM

Apr 2018

kentuck

(111,097 posts)

4. There are probably a couple of people that still believe he is an upstanding businessman?

Reply to dchill (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 10:53 AM

Apr 2018

Maybe?

dchill

(38,497 posts)

6. More or less 30% of murikans.

Reply to kentuck (Reply #4)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 10:55 AM

Apr 2018

The stable genii.

dalton99a

(81,510 posts)

2. Mob bosses don't hire normal people

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 10:52 AM

Apr 2018

They only hire crooks and criminals.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)

3. Why would a sleazy lawyer like Cohen risk what's left of his reputation by representing Trump? n/t

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 10:52 AM

Apr 2018

malaise

(269,004 posts)

5. Ah what?

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 10:53 AM

Apr 2018

Skeevy is as skeevy does

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,704 posts)

7. Is it possible that Michael Cohen was trying to turn away from his early life

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 11:01 AM

Apr 2018

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of petty grifting and impress his older brother, a partner in a prestigious law firm, by getting a job in the firm's mail room and secretly getting his law degree at an obscure, second-rate law school, but then was rejected for a job with the firm after he graduated because his own brother refused to hire him, which then caused him to set up his own practice in the basement of a nail salon in a strip mall, but was unable to attract business without cutting a few ethical corners and even then couldn't make a living, until he met Donald Trump?