ma machiavelli. the second thing that s so familiar is how inept these folks were when they tried to carry out little schemes like this. once again it just seems like sort of amateurish. if if they were this inept on the small, could they have done larger? cohen was reimbursed on this all cash payment. he was reimbursed by a hand written note, okay, so he didn t have any receipt, right? it was a hand written note and then basically repaid by trump personally. this is according to the wall street journal. this says a lot about cohen s role. and just how seedy the whole operation was. and one thing you can be sure the republicans are going to raise when he testifies publicly is did he get more money from donald trump than he actually turned over to the did he
that was compensation for not getting the full amount. do we know what that was supposed to make up for i don t think so because gogger was pursuing him for the money, and cohen was saying i ll get it to you, so he did expect to get paid. michael cohen requested a $50,000 reimbursement from trump with a hand written note for text services and the fees to gogg gogger. he gave a bank statement to the trump organization people, and so on it he wrote text services and he did get the $50,000 for that and the $130,000 for stormy. so that s why rudy giuliani is saying, hey, you know, the guy s a thief. he collected $50,000 from us but he only paid the other guy $13,000 in cash so, you know, you can t trust him. you mentioned this, women who
getting the full amount. do we know what that was supposed to make up for i don t think so because gogger was pursuing him for the money, and cohen was saying i ll get it to you, so he did expect to get paid. michael cohen requested a $50,000 reimbursement from trump with a hand written note for text services and the fees to gogger. he gave a bank statement to the trump organization people, and so on it he wrote text services and he did get the $50,000 for that and the $130,000 for stormy. so that s why rudy giuliani is saying, hey, you know, the guy s a thief. he collected $50,000 from us but he only paid the other guy $13,000 in cash so, you know, you can t trust him. you mentioned this, women who love and support michael cohen. strong, pitbull, sex symbol, no nonsense, business oriented and
there. let s just be honest, this is president who can t get out of his own way, right? he says he accepts the conclusion of his own intelligence community that russia meddled in the 2016 election, but he can t mean that and then immediately say it could have been someone else, too. and then there s this president trump adding his own hand written note to the script reading there was no collusion, by the way misspelling the word. just in case there was any chance he would forget to tell us that. one official telling cnn, quote, he is consumed with talk of no collusion and adding he thinks it s the answer to everything. but there s more. the president shockingly enough crossing out a line that read anyone involved in that meddling to justice. honestly that happened. he crossed out the part, bringing anyone involved to justice. didn t want to say that part.
snyderman is long gone, so that s just pixy dust the president is throwing in the air. it alleges the president is using the foundation to settle claims at his mar-a-lago resort. they even have a hand written note, apparently, by trump authorizing this. what kind of legal trouble could the president be facing here? well, he s actually facing three different lines of attack. there s the state lawsuit, which is going to go the way litigation goes. it s going to be a bloody knock-down-drag-out fight. he s tweeting he s not going to settle. i doubt this new york attorney general is worried about that. she seems to think she s got a pretty strong case because that was a barnburner of a lawsuit she s filed. she also referred this to both the irs and the fec. and there s some potential trouble there because there are very strict rules taking advantage of the tax exemption