'What's He Doing Here?': Inside Trump's Turbulent Relationship With Michael Cohen

[brooklynite]

Wall Street Journal:

Donald Trump summoned senior aides to his 26th floor office at Trump Tower around 2009 for an unpleasant task: persuade Michael Cohen —a top lawyer at his company—to resign, according to one of the aides.

Mr. Trump’s frustration had reached a breaking point, the aide said. Mr. Cohen wasn’t getting things done and Mr. Trump didn’t believe he was a good fit at the Trump Organization, even though he liked him and didn’t want to fire him. “What’s he doing here?” Mr. Trump demanded.

The message was relayed to Mr. Cohen. Visibly upset, Mr. Cohen pushed back. “I will try to prove myself,” Mr. Cohen replied, a person familiar with the matter said.

Mr. Trump eventually dropped the issue, but not before dealing another blow to Mr. Cohen by way of a big pay cut, slashing his annual income of more than $400,000 roughly in half, according to another person familiar with the matter.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. "An unpleasant task: persuade Michael Cohen --a top lawyer at his company--to resign"

Sounds like his same relationship he has with Jeff Sessions.

The crazy thing about Trump is he surrounds himself with people as awful as himself, and yet that doesn't necessarily mean they'll work well together. They maintain their own little space of evil independent of the evil around them.

[unblock]

2. turns out awful and evil aren't great for team building.

go figure.

[CatMor]

3. I can't figure out why anyone .....

would want to work for or be friends with trump. He has no redeeming qualities at all.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

4. Every story is suspect.

Especially w timelines. The feeling from the piece is that he started cutting him off lo some 7-8 years before the election..(yeah sure)..but yet 'Coham' had SD sign the contract in 2016. Liars going to lie. They do it everyday bc once they've been unmasked for it, and the momentary shame they felt for doing it passes, then it's carte blanche, full throttle lying bc..."we were warned and had notice he was/is a liar." Can you imagine a son or a sibling this messed up? I wonder what his family thats left REALLY thinks. Especially his brother Franks daughter who he withheld funds to, that was so sick after frank died. Grudge-ment day is coming for dt and allll his pals. Hopefully the World Court starts to be a lot more active now that he's stirring chaos the world over. It'd be a nice way to support the world.