Not surprised in the least. Trump treats everyone like garbage.
Well, boohoohoo for you.
Shit humans treating each other like shit humans.
Gonna bite him in the ass when they slap 20 years on Cohen, he's gonna divulge info faster than Trump goes through wives.
Cause trump is a dumbfuck and a good chunk of a his base are racists.
Remember that we've now learned of an alleged Cohen payoff to a Trump Tower doorman to keep his mouth shut about the alleged illegitimate Trump love child with a (now former) Trump Tower housekeeper.
Projection is one of the primary tools of gaslighting, and gaslighting was basically the Trump team's campaign strategy, next to empty populist promises of draining the swamp. When you run out of ideas on how to fuck over your enemy, look at the bad shit you know you've been up to that would hurt you if it was discovered, and find any possible way to pin that sin/crime on your opponent. Not only does this attempt to damage your enemy, if your skeletons are eventually fished out of the closet, you have a ready credibility-damaging alibi by claiming the other side is just making shit up to damage you -- after all, it's exactly what you did to them!
I'm curious to know what Trump's rationale for discarding his idea out-of-hand was, though. I remember Bill Clinton's alleged illegitimate black son being a dumb right-wing drama point but it didn't take off beyond weakass conspiracy theory attempts that petered out because, hello, Bill wasn't in the running in the first place. I'd laugh if the reason Trump told Cohen to get lost with the Clinton love child story is because he was offended that his great campaign was seen to need the extra help -- never make Trump feel like he's being made to look bad or that he needs help when he's confident and prideful about his position.
I don't think anyone is willing to take a bullet for Trump because Trump is not willing to take a bullet for them
Cohen spent $130k of his own money to protect this guy lmao
It is most likely that he just considered it stupid gossip. You think Trump consistently thinks idiotic things are a good idea? There's nothing consistent about him. Except his plummeting approval rate lol.
I'm pretty sure he was paid back under the table, but officially, yes, he took out a loan using his house as collateral to pay Stormy $130,000 to protect Trump -- Cohen's such a nice guy he may have committed bank fraud (if he lied to the bank about why he needed the money; doubtful he told them he was paying off a porn star to protect Trump's image before the election) and may have made an illegal campaign contribution in a selfless act of protecting his friend without his knowledge.
Now, there's another possibility in this scenario, where Cohen and Trump are in fact telling the truth, that Trump didn't know Cohen was doing this and Trump, via the Trump Organization and the Trump campaign, did not repay him.* What could have occurred is this: Trump sets up a slush fund with a million dollars in it, and Cohen is instructed to pull from it as needed and to go about buying the silence of anyone and anything that might threaten Trump. The fund gets topped up every few months, no questions asked, and Trump wants to remain completely ignorant, and therefore maintain plausible deniability, over what Cohen is actually doing with his money.
The result of that scenario is, Trump didn't know about the NDAs Cohen signed on his behalf (making them invalid ) and can simply not acknowledge the slush fund, and Cohen gets to clean up Trump's messes using his own money as official cover and then compensating himself out of the slush fund. It's perfect, except the result looks very weird when exposed and Cohen has to explain why he leveraged six figures of debt to protect Donnie without Big D even being aware that it was happening.
And if Cohen recorded even just one secret conversation between himself and Trump regarding anything tied to the Stormy affair and the FBI now has a copy of that, oh man he's going to be singing like a sparrow with a cocaine habit.
* Also of importance is the fact that Trump denied that the Trump Org and the Trump campaign paid Cohen back, but did not answer the question of if he personally paid Cohen back. Denying that the Trump Org and the campaign were involved is critically important to protecting Cohen from charges of violating campaign funding laws and making a hugely illegal donation in kind, but you would think it would also be a piece of cake to deny personal financial responsibility as well.
Pretty sure the source of those jokes is his actual fanbase. Trump would say something, the media would report it heavily, his fanbase would say he's playing 4d Chess because he just got a huge amount of exposure therefor it must've been intended and he tricked the media into playing themselves. But when he kept saying stupid things, it started to evolve into "27D backgammon" because he would keep saying stupid things that didn't make him look good in any light, but catch the eye of federal investigators.
It began as a joke that spins him doing dumb things into master media manipulation by his supporters, with "4D chess" being a term of praise and endearment.
And, as all things eventually do, it was turned into a mockery of his irrational impulses and stupid, counterproductive moves by his critics.
And in my post I'm referring to the mockery portion of the "n-Dimension gamename" meme, not the early days when it was being used unironically.
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