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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Cohen's father said he didn't survive Holocaust to have his name 'sullied' by Trump
2018-08-23
[The Hill] The decision of President Trump’s former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen to plead guilty to multiple fraud charges and campaign finance law violations reportedly came after a conversation he had with his father earlier this year, who said he did not survive the Holocaust to have his name "sullied" by Trump.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that a person familiar with the conversation said the exchange prompted Cohen, who once said he would "take a bullet" for the president, to break with Trump.

Maurice Cohen, a Polish Holocaust survivor, reportedly urged his son not to protect Trump and said that he did not survive the Holocaust to have his name "sullied" by the president, a person familiar with the conversation told the Journal.

Trump first said Michael Cohen was no longer his lawyer on June 15, telling reporters he hadn't spoken to Cohen "in a long time."

On June 20, Michael Cohen resigned as deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, tweeting his first public criticism of Trump, which referenced his father, the Journal notes.
Posted by:Besoeker

#16  Think about how you have sullied your son’s name. Pops. The apple / acorn doesn't fall far from the tree. Pops.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2018-08-23 21:32  

#15  Relevance, your Honor?
Posted by: DooDahMan   2018-08-23 18:38  

#14  I have met several really messed up children of holocaust survivors.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2018-08-23 14:30  

#13  Think about how your son has sullied your name, pops.
Posted by: regular joe   2018-08-23 14:27  

#12  We should care what Chen Sr. says/thinks...Why?
Posted by: magpie   2018-08-23 12:58  

#11  (a) Totally inappropriate.
(b) Hope daddy was a more ethical surgeon than the son a lawyer.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-08-23 12:44  

#10  Danged autocorrect! Soros, not Works.
Posted by: Glenmore   2018-08-23 12:05  

#9  Works survived the Holocaust too.
Posted by: Glenmore   2018-08-23 12:03  

#8  What's that phrase leftists use? "Absolute moral authority..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-08-23 10:15  

#7  Thus it is demonstrated that having survived the Holocaust does not necessarily provide deeper insight into the human condition than any less profound experience.

I am saddened that the gentleman stooped so low to emotionally blackmailing his son, but not surprised. Some people are like that.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-08-23 09:54  

#6  Bringing muzz like Khizr Khan and jews like Maurice Cohen together. What can't Trump do?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-08-23 09:37  

#5  Trump didn't do it. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree apparently. You sullied it all by yourself, jackass.
Posted by: DarthVader   2018-08-23 09:04  

#4  THis whole thing is China's insurance policy for dealing with the possibility that Trump might stop Western Deindustrialization.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2018-08-23 07:55  

#3  Trump wasn't the one who railroaded Cohen...
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2018-08-23 07:27  

#2  More traction available if religion or race can be leveraged.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-08-23 04:18  

#1  Pompous & self-righteous - great combination.
Posted by: Raj   2018-08-23 01:48  

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