Michael Cohen Told Vanity Fair All About Trump’s Open Racism During the 2016 Campaign
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Former President Lyndon Johnson once said of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and his outright authoritarianism, “It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.” That maxim applies to Michael Cohen, and why Trump was probably wrong to not make whatever deal Cohen was very clearly trying to negotiate with him through the media before the president’s former fixer started singing like a songbird and creating headlines like this one throughout the media landscape—also known as the only reality that President Trump truly understands.
Now, I get the urge to roll your eyes at this and go “meh, unimportant clickbait,” but Cohen has credibility on this stuff, since he accused the president of a committing crime under penalty of perjury. Everything that’s less serious than that charge is plausible, and someone who we can confirm did talk to Trump on a regular basis is alleging gross and revealing behavior that is entirely believable and supported by other people who we can confirm regularly spoke to the president in the past.