If you’ve ever found yourself wondering if, just maybe, Trump fixer Michael Cohen, the man who mortgaged his home to buy the silence of his boss’s porn star mistress, might be deserving of your empathy, I’d encourage you to listen to this recently released audio of him threatening NPR’s Tim Mak back in 2015, when the latter was working on a piece for the Daily Beast, about a rape claim made against the then candidate by his first wife, Ivana Trump, during their divorce proceedings… After declaring to the reporter that a man can’t technically rape his own wife, which is both incorrect and disgusting, the wannabe mob enforcer growls, “So I’m warning you… What I’m going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting. You understand me?”
If I had to guess, I’d say this is probably pretty indicative of the kind of pseudo-organized crime operation that Donald Trump sits at the head of. And, of course, we’re not just talking about the Trump Organization now, as they’ve taken over the entire Republican Party. As former Republican House Speaker John Boehner just said this past Thursday, while sipping a Bloody Mary at the Michigan policy conference on Mackinac Island, at this point “there is no Republican Party,” only a “Trump Party”. And it’s because of this that Michael Cohen, in spite of his thuggish behavior, and the fact that he’s under federal investigation for bank fraud, remains the deputy director of the Republican National Committee.
Trump told us, when all of this started, that he only surrounded himself with “the best people.” Well, with each passing day, we see just how much of a lie that was. He was never the world’s greatest dealmaker, and he never surrounded himself with the smartest people. He was never anything more than a conman who surrounded himself with cast of characters who could help him cash in on the “Trump” name while staying one step ahead of the law. Nothing more. Nothing less.
