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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo I hear a Jail Bird Singing?!? Maggie Haberman is Reporting On Trump-Cohen Love/Hate.
Could there be a breakup coming?!?!
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Stone says Trump has gone out of his way to treat Cohen like garbage
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/us/politics/trump-michael-cohen.html#click=https://t.co/M34kkP0sQb
Apparently, Trump has treated Cohen like garbage... and that's about to come back and haunt him...
For years, a joke among Trump Tower employees was that the boss was like Manhattans First Avenue, where the traffic goes only one way.
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Donald goes out of his way to treat him like garbage, said Roger J. Stone Jr., Mr. Trumps informal and longest-serving political adviser, who, along with Mr. Cohen, was one of five people originally surrounding the president when he was considering a presidential campaign before 2016.
Now, for the first time, the traffic may be going Mr. Cohens way. Mr. Trumps lawyers and advisers have become resigned to the strong possibility that Mr. Cohen, who has a wife and two children and faces the prospect of devastating legal fees, if not criminal charges, could end up cooperating with federal officials who are investigating him for activity that could relate, at least in part, to work he did for Mr. Trump.
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Donald goes out of his way to treat him like garbage, said Roger J. Stone Jr., Mr. Trumps informal and longest-serving political adviser, who, along with Mr. Cohen, was one of five people originally surrounding the president when he was considering a presidential campaign before 2016.
Now, for the first time, the traffic may be going Mr. Cohens way. Mr. Trumps lawyers and advisers have become resigned to the strong possibility that Mr. Cohen, who has a wife and two children and faces the prospect of devastating legal fees, if not criminal charges, could end up cooperating with federal officials who are investigating him for activity that could relate, at least in part, to work he did for Mr. Trump.
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Do I hear a Jail Bird Singing?!? Maggie Haberman is Reporting On Trump-Cohen Love/Hate. (Original Post)
berni_mccoy
Apr 2018
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procon
(15,805 posts)1. That's karma, baby! What goes around comes around, and given the
size of Trump's ass, when it takes a big bite outta that big butt, its gonna hurt.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)2. All three of those men (Trump, Stone, Cohen) deserve to be in jail.
For a long, long time.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)3. republican family values just totally suck cesspool scum
I mean really...
salin
(48,955 posts)4. I believe I have heard Sam Nunberg, in the past, say similar things.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)5. Looks like Trump treated Cohen like stit at times, but
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/us/politics/trump-michael-cohen.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Cohen seemed to stick by the stinking rat. Cohen participated in trumps vile crap. He is no angle. Just a fool.
In 2007, Mr. Cohen was dispatched, along with Ivanka Trump, to scout a golf course development project in Fresno, Calif., that didnt materialize. The next year, he served as chief operating officer of Affliction Entertainment, a Trump mixed-martial arts venture of boxing, wrestling and karate that featured a Russian Army veteran named Fedor Emelianenko. (His thing is inflicting death on people, Mr. Trump said at the time.)
He has also scouted business opportunities for Mr. Trump in the former Soviet bloc, including a 2010 trip to Georgia on Mr. Trumps behalf.
...............Mr. Cohen has been active in Mr. Trumps political ventures. When Mr. Trump pondered running for president in 2012, it was Mr. Cohen who went on an early trip to Iowa to meet with Republican operatives and who set up a website called ShouldTrumpRun.org. He even initially sought to pay some of the costs for the site with money raised for his own abortive run for New York State Senate.
Mr. Trump never ran in 2012, but Mr. Cohen raised $500,000 in four hours for the Mitt Romney presidential campaign that year during one of their national call days and had campaign officials credit it as money that his boss had raised, one former Romney official recalled. When Mr. Trump ran for president in 2016, Mr. Cohen was given no official role on the campaign.
He fought with the initial campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski. Paul Manafort, the campaign chairman, later blocked him from coming on board. Mr. Trump never ordered his aides to make a place for Mr. Cohen.
Some of Mr. Cohens efforts to help only led to embarrassing rebuffs in front of those in charge. A month before the election, Mr. Cohen approached Mr. Trump outside his Trump Tower office with photographs of Bill Clinton and a mixed-race man alleged without any evidence to be the former presidents illegitimate son. Mr. Trump knocked the papers away, angrily telling Mr. Cohen to get that out of my face, said one former campaign official who witnessed the incident.
Particularly hurtful to Mr. Cohen was the way Mr. Trump lavished approval on Mr. Lewandowski in a way he never did for Mr. Cohen. When Mr. Cohen told Mr. Trump that he believed that Mr. Lewandowski had been behind a negative story about Mr. Trumps son-in-law, Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump dismissed the comments as simple jealousy, and didnt pay attention, according to two people familiar with the incident.
Mr. Cohen raised millions of dollars for Mr. Trump in the campaign, at a time when the candidate was struggling to attract support. Mr. Cohen tried to soften the edges as Mr. Trump faced a torrent of criticism for decades of racially divisive remarks, forming a diversity coalition to give Mr. Trump cover comprised of African-Americans, Muslims and other groups.
Nobody else around Donald Trump would have thought to do that for him, said Darrell Scott, an African-American pastor from Ohio and a friend of Mr. Cohen who helped created the coalition.
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