Michael Cohen — who long served as former President Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer — warned Sunday of the potential risk of sending Trump back to the White House with mounting legal fees and financial liabilities.
“We need to be very careful about him as a potential president because he is for sale,” Cohen, now an outspoken critic of the former president, said in an interview on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” on Sunday.
“He needs to figure out where he is going to raise $500-plus million over a short period of time,” Cohen continued.
“He is for sale.”
Dude was for sale before, too.
Yes, but if this hurts his “successful businessman” image (just threw up in my mouth a little), then I’ll take it.
It won’t though. The people who would give him money haven’t yet stopped to wonder why a “billionaire” needs them to pay for his campaigns and legal defenses.
This drives me nuts. Why do his moronic cult followers keep giving him money? He’s a “billionaire.” LOL
That is why background investigations for security clearances go deep into that stuff. Can’t be cleared? Shouldn’t hold office.
Unfortunately the president gets security clearance inherently with the position. It’s kind of like asking the King/Queen to get a drivers license when those are issued “at their pleasure”.
Before being president, you are a citizen. If you can’t be cleared, you shouldn’t be eligible to run.
So you want CIA, NSA and the other intelligence agencies to have a full on veto power ower who can be president?
As a reminder, its not that long since being gay/trans would disqalify you from getting clearence because “it made you vulnerable to blackmail”.
We’re already having a hard time stopping an insurrectionist from running for president.
Wasn’t Queen Elizabeth II famous for never having gotten a drivers license and refusing to get one? Iirc, she skated by by only ever driving in private roads.
From her Wikipedia article
She trained as a driver and mechanic and was given the rank of honorary junior commander (female equivalent of captain at the time) five months later.[34]
I believe that she’d essentially be giving herself a license (and passport).
Also, for a person who is always driven or flown somewhere by very special people,who would need one?
Trump was never “not for sale”. He sold a list of American agents to Putin. What worse could he get?
EDIT: I agree, he could still get a lot worse.
This is exactly the type of thing that will cost you your security clearance, for a good reason.
So few people in the Trump Whitehouse could pass a background check. The solution was to suspend background checks. Clearance was just given out.
Always has been
