Michael Cohen doesn't hold back in his opening statement
“He once asked me if I could name a country run by a black person that wasn’t a ‘shithole.’ This was when“While we were once driving through a struggling neighborhood in Chicago, he commented that only black people could live that way.Trump has a very low opinion of his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.
“Mr. Trump had frequently told me and others that his son Don Jr. had the worst judgment of anyone in the world. And also, that Don Jr. would never set up any meeting of any significance alone – and certainly not without checking with his father.”“Mr. Trump claimed it was because of a bone spur, but when I asked for medical records, he gave me none and said there was no surgery.
He finished the conversation with the following comment. ‘You think I’m stupid, I wasn’t going to Vietnam.’”“The sad fact is that I never heard Mr. Trump say anything in private that led“When telling me in 2008 that he was cutting employees’ salaries in half ― including mine ― he showed me what he claimed was a $10 million IRS tax refund, and he said that he could not believe how stupid the government was for giving ‘someone like him’ that much money back.
“The President of the United States thus wrote a personal check for the payment of hush money as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws.”“For those who question my motives for being here today, I understand. I have lied, but I am not a liar. I have done bad things, but I am not a bad man. I have fixed things, but I am no longer your ‘fixer,’ Mr. Trump.”
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