New York – Michael Cohen’s decision to turn on one-time patron Donald Trump was partly motivated by a conversation with his father Maurice, a Holocaust survivor. The elder Cohen reportedly told his son that did not survive the Nazi genocide to have the family name dragged through the mud by Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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On Tuesday, Michael Cohen, the president’s longtime attorney, testified in federal court that his former boss had directed him to pay off two women with whom Trump allegedly had extramarital affairs. Cohen’s assertion that Trump ordered the payments is seen as creating legal and political jeopardy for the president.
Cohen referenced his father’s wartime experiences in June, when he quit a senior position in the Republican National Committee, citing his opposition to Trump’s immigration policies and invoking the experience of his Holocaust survivor father.
“As the son of a Polish Holocaust survivor, the images and sounds of this family separation policy is heart wrenching,” Cohen wrote at the time. “While I strongly support measures that will secure our porous borders, children should never be used as bargaining chips.” Cohen was deputy chairman of the RNC’s finance committee.
Cohen reportedly felt betrayed by Trump, who had not reached out to him after federal authorities raided his properties for information related to the payoffs and who had stopped paying his legal bills.
Trump responded to Cohen’s testimony this week by tweeting that “if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the services of Michael Cohen!”
The President also claimed that the payments did not constitute a crime and that “President Obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily settled!”
In 2013 Obama’s presidential campaign was fined by the Federal Election Commission for failing to report a number of campaign contributions and for not returning campaign donations within a required time frame. Neither is a federal crime. Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges, including two election law charges leveled by the Justice Department.
In fairness to Trump, was there ever a case where a prosecuter ever found anyone free of wrongdoing?
How “original” can you get ?
Too bad his father didn’t teach him about ethics, and client lawyer privilege. His father should have told him if it looks wrong say NO.
Unfortunately, this Cohen business will turn on us Jews. Already Trump, the Shmump, is telling Israel that it will pay mightily for the American embassy move. The Jews get the blame no matter what, even a so-called ‘friend’ of Israel
Awwww cry me a river of crocodile tears!
This excuses such manure. This allegedly smartest lawyer in the world took himself a Clinton family shill as his lawyer. Lanny Davis had him plea on things which were not even crimes! There were no campaign finance issues with the payments allegedly directed by Mr. Trump, either as a candidate or as a private individual. One is allowed to make personal payments to somebody to either shut them up or get them out of the way.
Lanny Davis has SEVERE issue of conflict of interest in this case and could be facing sanctions or even disbarment!
To #3- Who will turn on us? This is 2018, and not 1943, when Rabbonim were turned away from the White House, just before Rosh Hashanah, by FDR. Things are different today, as we are much stronger politically than 75 years ago.
2 kohen goyim menivulim creating a mass chilul hashem. Theyre dont have anything Jewish in mind otherwise they wld never b so desperate for attention
“Neither is a federal crime”
Unless the prosecution characterizes it differently. It is not what was actually done but how it is spinned by the prosecution. Thus when Mahmoud Reza Banki legally had transferred family assets (money) from Iran to the United States, the Obama administration (the attorney in charge was the same guy who later refused to leave his office when Trump fired him) characterized the perfectly legal transfers as breaking the Iran embargo. The prosecutor managed to get a judge who refused to allow the jury to even be told that there is such an exemption in law for family assets transfers. The appeals court unanimously reversed the judge, but all that meant is there could be another trial, with all its expenses etc. so the prosecutor thus forced his victim to a “plea bargain” and leaving his victim with an undeserved criminal record.
“children should never be used as bargaining chips”
So very confusing. Does that mean that those who semi-kidnapped (or sometimes actually kidnapped) children to use a prop into the country should be given safe passage because otherwise the government is using the children “as bargaining chips”?
Cohen is a greedy phony. He did the crime, and now he will do the time. I have ZERO sympathy for him.