Michael Cohen reveals document he found showing Trump's recycled attacks
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Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen found a document among his papers at home from his ex-client, showing how he recycles rhetoric and attacks, thinking that they'll be successful.
Holding up a stack of papers, Cohen showed a note written in what seemed like Trump's handwriting, but Raw Story has not independently verified the note.
"What it says is 'Obama reps is (sic) using New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to target political enemies,'" Cohen read aloud, noting how remarkably similar it is to other Trump allegations. "All you have to do is remove Eric Schneiderman's name from it, put it into Letitia James, or put it into Jack Smith, or put it into anyone. It's the same language over and over. He thinks that it was beneficial to him then, which we all know it was not. He ended up paying close to $20 some-odd-million for the Trump University case. It did not work there, and it's not going to work here."
He went on to say that his lawyers aren't helping him in court, and they certainly didn't hurt Cohen the way they thought.
"These theatrics that he and his lawyers are doing every single day, it does not benefit him," Cohen continued. "Instead of schooling me, they should have schooled him on the proper way to answer a question. One, you don't make a fool out of yourself and then you don't get hit with a 6 or 700 million-dollar bill at the end of the day."
Cohen also said that one thing he saw when working with the Trump Organization is that anyone working for Donald had to do whatever he said, whether it made sense or not.
"Most people at the Trump Organization, if you had any dealings with Donald on a day-to-day basis, you had to do exactly what Chris Kise, Alina Habba, and Cliff Robert did, which is whatever it takes to stroke Donald's ego, in and out, in and out, all day long. That's what the real job is. Their job was not to lawyer and to ensure that whatever the best possible outcome that could be derived from his taking the stand would be achieved. No. Their entire goal was to create theatrics. Donald thinks that the theatrical is the way that he's going to win the election."
The more theatrical he is, the more he thinks his poll numbers will increase, Cohen explained. The same thing happened during his birther conspiracy campaign against former President Barack Obama.
See the interview with Cohen in the video below or at the link here.
See also: Judge in civil fraud case had reason to worry Trump could move assets
A transfer of assets to a business entity his company created last year could complicate the court’s ability to enforce disgorgement, should that end up being one of the remedies.
Published Oct. 6, 2023 Robert Freedman Lead Editor
Trump Tower entrance Spencer Platt / Staff via Getty Images
Dive Brief:
* The order this week by New York Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron requiring Donald Trump and other defendants in the civil trial over his business practices to report any asset changes to a court-appointed monitor appeared to come out of the blue, but it didn’t.
* A year ago, on the day New York Attorney General Letitia James filed her lawsuit against Trump, the company created a new entity, Trump Organization II LLC, a foreign corporation incorporated in Delaware, which James in a motion for a preliminary injunction last year said could be used to hide his assets from seizure.
“ The Trump Organization appears to be taking steps to restructure its business to evade the reach of OAG’s lawsuit,” James said in the motion. “The Trump Organization has since refused to provide any assurance that it will not seek to move assets out of New York to evade legal accountability.”
Dive Insight:
In his order, Judge Engoron barred Trump and the other defendants from transferring any assets or creating a new entity to acquire them without disclosing that first to a court-appointed monitor.
orangedonshittypants's lawyers sure are playing games. No cross examination by defense on anyone until plastic faced daughter. And right now the defense is trying to make it look like the bank had no problems with shittypants at that time. But like the whole family, she showed some selective memory loss.
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