Despite the fact that his book has already hit the shelves, the bombshells from Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and “fixer” Michael Cohen just keep on rolling in.
During an interview with MSNBC today, regarding the explosive New York Times report surrounding Trump’s taxes, Cohen gave us an educated guess on what his former boss is currently doing behind closed doors — panicking.
Host Katy Tur questioned Cohen about the allegations against the president, specifically if Trump is inflating and deflating the size of properties to better personally serve him in getting loans versus paying taxes. Cohen wasted no time in saying it’s something he expects the New York attorney general and the Manhattan district attorney to look into, if they’re not already, as very similar complaints have already been lodged against the Trump Organization.
“However, I think as it relates to The New York Times reporting, and of course, what does the president say? It’s fake, it’s not real,” Cohen stated. “It’s not. He doesn’t even know — if you look at his body language, I talk a lot about that in the book as well — his body language tells a lot about him. Right now, he’s lost. He’s confused. He’s dazed. He’s not sure what to answer. He doesn’t know how to answer it because it’s hard to answer and to refute something which has basically documentary evidence. They have the returns.”
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Cohen said that he feels that the thing likely bothering Trump the most right now is the large sum of money he owes, knowing he will have to find a solution for that very soon.
“Trump has over $420 million in outstanding loans that are coming due,” Trump’s former attorney explained. “Now, in the event, there is a potential tax liability for the time period that they’re talking about, I mean, it could be hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. If you add those together, I mean, he’s very realistically facing a potential bankruptcy where people are concerned about in terms of your previous guest about foreign influence. I mean, the more likely scenario that I see is that he’ll find some corrupt foreign entity to help him out of the situation. Not too much dissimilar than 666 Fifth Avenue.”
JustSecurity explained that, in that case, Jared Kushner “in his capacity as a senior adviser to President Trump, reportedly played a central role in supporting a blockade of Qatar by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Kushner never disclosed his meeting with Saudi Arabia and the UAE on the blockade to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the time. Later, a financial company tied to Qatar brokered an especially valuable deal to rescue the Kushner Companies’ property at 666 Fifth Avenue.”
Thus far, there’s been no investigation into the deal.
I don’t know about you, but I’m willing to bet dollars to donuts that Cohen hit the nail on the head, and Donald Trump is about to pee his pants in terror.
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