Michael Cohen — who long served as former President Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer — warned Sunday of the potential risk of sending Trump back to the White House with mounting legal fees and fin…
Michael Cohen — who long served as former President Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer — warned Sunday of the potential risk of sending Trump back to the White House with mounting legal fees and financial liabilities.
“We need to be very careful about him as a potential president because he is for sale,” Cohen, now an outspoken critic of the former president, said in an interview on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” on Sunday.
“He needs to figure out where he is going to raise $500-plus million over a short period of time,” Cohen continued.
It won't though. The people who would give him money haven't yet stopped to wonder why a "billionaire" needs them to pay for his campaigns and legal defenses.
Unfortunately the president gets security clearance inherently with the position. It’s kind of like asking the King/Queen to get a drivers license when those are issued “at their pleasure”.
Wasn’t Queen Elizabeth II famous for never having gotten a drivers license and refusing to get one? Iirc, she skated by by only ever driving in private roads.
Who decides the security? A independent panel? Or the current president? Requirements like that leads to fascism. It's a slippery slope when you start removing rights from people.
After Kashoggi was killed he literally did a press conference and among his rambling was the implication that he wouldn't act against the Saudis because they rent a lot of his properties. He's openly for sale and his moronic base doesn't care.
I'm not really sure why people consider Michael Cohen an authority on anything. He was an unethical lawyer who got disbarred. He is definitely not an unbiased source about anything to do with Trump since he obviously has a personal vendetta after being thrown under the bus. While I don't disagree that the headline is true, I don't think attaching Michael Cohen's name to it makes the argument stronger.
Because he was trumps attorney and basically an inside man for what, decades? But yeah you're right it's not like his testimony literally brought down Trump's business in NY.
He has properties he can sell or mortgage. He's not like broke. He's for sale because he cares more about money than loyalty and duty to his country, that hasn't changed from his first term. It's not about the fines.
You think he owns all the properties with the trump name on them??? You think even if they're in his name that aren't all underwater due to the mortgages/ loans??
He licensed out his name to be used, so no he doesn't own "all" the properties with his name on them, but he owns "some" yes. And it's real estate, it has value.
The guy sucks and lies all the time, he is probably poorer than he says. That doesn't mean he has no money. And the asset he owns a lot of (real estate) has appreciated in value a good amount over the last 10 years, it wouldn't be "underwater" unless both the value went down and the loan didn't get paid off by as much.
Cohen’s warning comes as Trump, the leading 2024 GOP presidential candidate, was found liable Friday for nearly $355 million in penalties in a civil fraud case in New York that delivered a severe blow to his family business.
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) sued Trump and his business in 2022, alleging the former president falsely altered his net worth on key financial statements to receive tax and insurance benefits.
James also alleged that Trump sometimes adjusted his assets’ value to obtain more favorable loans and deals, which the state points to as evidence of fraud.
Last month, a federal jury in a different civil case ordered Trump to pay $83.3 million for defaming E. Jean Carroll, adding to the $5 million verdict in an earlier trial that found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and defaming her in separate comments.
When MSNBC host Symone Sanders-Townsend suggested Trump “is open to the highest bidder at this point because the tab keeps being run up,” floating “the Saudis, the Russians,” as options, Cohen agreed.
Trump was also indicted in four criminal cases, two of which were brought by special counsel Jack Smith, with another each in Georgia and New York.
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Yeah, yeah that's what makes him compromised. Not all the other things. Not the rampant greed, not the corruption, not the pee pee tape, just the legal fees.
I would be fine never hearing from Michael Cohen ever again. Same goes for Mary Trump. They get headlines just by commenting the obvious on trump's headlines
Michael Cohen has unique insight into the mind and actions of this lunatic. I will take a look at what he has to say every time (even if I do take it with a grain of salt).