Michael Cohen: Trump will go broke and may face prison -- "it's going to hit him hard"

[marmar]

Michael Cohen: Trump will go broke and may face prison — "it's going to hit him hard"
Trump's former fixer says his ex-boss, facing personal doom, looks like "somebody sucked the life out of him"

By BRIAN KAREM
Columnist
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 6, 2023 6:00AM (EST)


(Salon) Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former fixer and personal attorney, has been called a lot of things over the years. Today, he is primarily known as the first person to be thrown under the Trump bus who decided to fight back.

....(snip)....

How did he look to you? I've seen him since he left the White House, he doesn't seem as in good a shape as he was when I last saw him.

That's a big presumption that he was ever in good shape. The answer is, he didn't look good at all. In fact, he looked beaten up and weathered. He looked really disheveled and really just different. He looked like somebody had just sucked the life out of him. Rest assured, this New York case is really affecting him, specifically because it's about his money. His money is his id, his ego, his superego, all combined into one narcissistic sociopath who for the last, what, 70-plus years — let's just say his whole life has been predicated on his wealth and his standing. What this attorney general case threatens to do is to basically expose the emperor without his clothes and, according to Stormy Daniels, that's not a pretty picture.

This trial, at this point, is just about how much money they're going to take, right?

..... Mind you, he does not have that in equity. So when these assets get sold — remember, he is low-basis in most if not all of these assets — take the tax implications and then subtract from that the outstanding mortgages that may exist. Technically, there's nothing left.

You and I both know, me from covering him, and you from working with him, that this will hit him harder than anything else — being considered broke.

....Let's put it this way: Right now, that's what he's confronted with. As I previously stated, it's his id, his ego and his superego. Will that hit him harder than the loss of his freedom when he ultimately sits for the Jan. 6 criminal case, or for the Mar-a-Lago documents case, or for the Manhattan district attorney's criminal case? Loss of freedom, and I'm talking firsthand knowledge now, that really sucks, man. I can tell you. While that's not on his plate right now, so he doesn't think about it, when that is in front of him, and that's the issue, I promise you, it's going to hit him as hard as this case is currently hitting. ..............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2023/11/06/michael-cohen-will-go-broke-and-may-face--its-going-to-hit-him-hard/

[marble falls]

1. Does anyone know what happened to my "tears shed for TFG rag"?

[musclecar6]

2. Well

If Michael, Cohen is correct, and he gets convicted and all his money is gone and he does not get an opportunity to get elected again all is good. If not, a very evil person will become a modern day Hitler if he gets reelected and all hell is going to break loose with the fools who elected him and all the rest of us. It will be subject to his wrath.

I think he's finished and he's going down in flames and it couldn't happen to a more appropriate person.

[FakeNoose]

10. This trial is a civil case, and Chump could lose a lot of money, maybe even his family business

... but this trial won't send him to prison.

It might happen soon enough when either the trial in DC or in Fulton County Georgia, find him guilty and sentence him to whatever. It could happen at either or both trials. There's still a lot coming up in early-mid 2024.

[Freethinker65]

3. So he has a rally and begs for money, and idiots send it to him. Hell, he most likely still has US docs to sell.

Agree with Cohen that the illusion of wealth is always the priority. Having the world believe you are a global player and can buy/finance whatever you want (NDAs/silence, escorts/wives, lawyers to delay and/or reduce consequences, etc) is what feeds his ego. That, and flattery.

[Kid Berwyn]

4. Good.

Well deserved.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Starting Monday with a smile

Nothing would be sweeter than to see this awful crook get everything he deserves.

[Ford_Prefect]

6. ...Along with his family and all the enablers, large and small.

[Aristus]

7. Go broke?

Trump has done that many times. He's getting pretty good at it.

But he's run out of lenders who bolster the notion that he is wealthy. All he has left is the poor, stupid-ass saps who send him money like it's some kind of twisted church tithe.

[flying_wahini]

8. Don't forget Putin's donations.

He did so well the first time he will do it again.

[twodogsbarking]

9. Cohen gets rent free space in Trump's brain. I like when he talks 'cause you know it's

ketchup flying time again.