Did Cohen really misunderstand the "I won't be on the market long"?

[intrepidity]

Cohen seemed to testify that his interpretation was about the election, which befuddled me.

When I heard the quote, it seemed that Donald was clearly dismissing Melania's potential concern by asserting that he'd have her replacement soon enough.

Am I missing something??

[Silent3]

1. I think Cohen took that comment as a sign that the election mattered more to Trump...

...than his wife mattered to him, so that paying off Stormy Daniels would, indeed, be about the election and not about hiding the story from Melania.

[scipan]

2. I agree. Seems pretty obvious what he was saying. Nt

[Demobrat]

3. This is how I took it.

This is not about Melania. Melania is as easily replaced as an old lamp. This is about making sure female voters don’t find out.

[PJMcK]

7. "Melania is as easily replaced as an old lamp"

Priceless!

Thank you for a laugh based on truth.

[calimary]

18. Yep. Sad but true.

I hope she leaves him. Before he leaves her.

Barron’s high school graduation is this weekend, I believe. He could start making his own decisions now. And since he doesn’t need Mom anymore, seems to me that’d be the smart time to leave. Let the divorce lawyers deal with it. And bill the donald.

[wishstar]

4. According to the Guardian, Cohen was clear about lack of concern for Melania

"Cohen said Trump wanted him to take care of the Daniels matter, but also told him to “push it out as long as you can, past the election, because if I win, I’ll be president, and if I lose, I won’t really care.”

Cohen said he asked whether that might cause a rift with his wife. “I said to him, how’s things going to go upstairs?” he said. “Don’t worry, he goes. He goes: how long do you think I’ll be on the market for? Not long.”

“He wasn’t thinking about Melania,” Cohen said. “This was all about the campaign.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/13/trump-hush-money-trial-michael-cohen-testimony

[calimary]

5. Bastard!

"...how long do you think I’ll be on the market for? Not long.”

I bet Melania's been waiting for their son to turn 18 (which he now has). Now he's old enough to go off to school and pursue his own life. That'll leave her free to find a good divorce lawyer.

[John Shaft]

6. The prostitute Melania

is no victim.

She is in on the scam. She's part of the scam.

[HAB911]

8. at least until she can be in a position to extract

the maximum amount of money from the situation. they are both 100% transactional in the relationship.

[Rebl2]

14. I also

think she has a whole lot of information on tfg, if she wanted to give up that information to hurt him.

[NanaCat]

11. You haven't known enough gold diggers

Especially ones who make the mistake of not leaving a rich Sugar Daddy when their market value is still high eno--er, when they're still young enough to get a new one.

I was a teenager when my Mum's MD colleagues hit their trophy wife mid-life crisis years, which means I saw a parade of gold-diggers march through our social life. The clever ones stuck around only long enough to enjoy the good life during the marriage, sock away a tidy nest egg where hubs couldn't see, and still get a sweet payout in the divorce settlement while she's young enough to win another sugar daddy. Next, please!

The career arc for gold-diggers is a short one. You have until early 30s to land the rich dude, or to leave one and find another. Every year after thirty puts you further into SOL territory.

TSF's gold-digger was too stupid to know that she needed to get out while the getting was good. She stays now only because she knows in a rudimentary way (the only way that dimbulb could understand anything), that her pre-nup may not be worth very much when it's time to collect (as of April, she's already lost child support), and because she'd have to settle for far less with a new man. An abundance of younger, more beautiful women with much less baggage are a dime a dozen for the type of man susceptible to a gold digger. Those guys do have standards, shallow as they are. She no longer meets them.

That's why the only First Gold Digger in US history has made the calculation that there's more butter for her bread by staying with him than leaving. At least for now. Her best hope now is that he'll die and leave her with enough not to suffer an ordinary life.

[jeffreyi]

13. Melanomia doubtless has had a backup plan or two in place for awhile.

[yardwork]

9. That sounds to me like Trump was saying he would quickly find a new wife.

This was never about Melania.

[fishwax]

10. Cohen interpreted the comment the same way that you did

The comment meant that trump wasn't concerned about Melania's reaction to the Daniels story breaking.

Which means that the reason he was so concerned about the story getting out was a function of his election chances, not his marital stability.

So when Cohen says it was all about the election, the "it" is not the "market" comment. Rather he's referring to what the market comment indicated about the concern over the Daniels story.

[NanaCat]

12. And this puts the lie to the many Democrats

Who claim that TSF never really wanted to be POTUS. Going to such lengths to cover up a one-night-stand, simply to prevent hurting your chances at winning an election, is the act of a man who wants that office, and wants it badly.

[intrepidity]

16. Cohen himself asserts that

Although, I think Cohen likely means that the "run" was conceived as a publicity stunt, but that once Donald got a taste, it became intoxicating.

[intrepidity]

15. Thank you, now I get it.

"It" was what was confusing me.

[Patterson]

17. "That sounds to me like Trump was saying he would quickly find a new wife."

That is the obvious answer.

[lame54]

19. He still has the catalog he ordered her from