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KNOWLES: Michael Cohen Throws Spaghetti Against The Wall
On Wednesday, host Michael Knowles discussed the testimony of ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen before Congress, breaking down some key moments on “The Michael Knowles Show.” Transcript and video below.
Michael Cohen says Donald Trump is this big racial bigot. Okay, that raises some questions as to why he would keep working for that guy, but then he says Donald Trump referred to poor countries as “s-holes.” Let’s use “hellholes,” that’s similar to the word he used. Now I think Trump was specifically referring to Haiti — where no one would deny people live in squalor. People cook mud pies, not the delicious dessert but actual mud pie made of mud. They cook mud just to fill their bellies because people are starving there because it’s horrific. That’s not racist, that’s not racially bigoted to say that. Then he says “yeah Trump, he said that black people would never vote for me.” Well, I don’t know, Trump’s made black support a key part of his entire administration, he constantly touts his support among black people, he has touted black unemployment – very, very low unemployment numbers – as a key accomplishment of his administration. He frequently says he’s done more for black Americans than any president in American history and it’s hard to refute that now.
The question of racism, as Michael Cohen’s throwing spaghetti at the wall, gets challenged by Mark Meadows, who does a very good job of it:
Rep. Meadows: Mr. Cohen, do you know Lynne Patton?
Cohen: Yes I do.
Meadows: I asked Lynne to come today in her personal capacity to actually shed some light. How long have you known Ms. Patton?
Cohen: I’m responsible for Lynne Patton joining the Trump Organization and the job that she currently holds.
Meadows: I’m glad you acknowledge that, because you made some very demeaning comments about the president that Miss Patton doesn’t agree with. In fact, it has to do with your claim of racism. She says that as a daughter of a man born in Birmingham, Alabama, that there is no way that she would work for an individual who was racist. How do you reconcile the two of those?
Cohen: As neither should I as the son of a Holocaust survivor.
Come again, what? Was that John Kasich, is that you talking about your father who’s a mailman? What does that have to do with anything? What just happened is Michael Cohen got the squeeze put on him. He used to say Donald Trump doesn’t have a bigoted bone in his body, is the nicest, most wonderful guy in the world. Now he’s gonna go to prison, he’s trying to get out of jail a little early, and he says Donald Trump is a big racist. So then a black employee of President Trump comes in and says, “No, he’s not, he’s not a racist, I wouldn’t work for a racist, he’s fine, good guy,” and then Michael Cohen says, “My father was in the Holocaust, he survived the Holocaust.” What does that have to do with anything? Because you have no answer, that’s what it has to do with it.
Then Mark Meadows, Republican Congressman, presses this a little bit further. Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan were the two real stars of this hearing on the Republican side, they really drilled down to what matters. Mark Meadows says, “Okay, you’re calling him a racist, we’ve got a black employee of the Trump Organization who says he’s not a racist. You, a schmuck who’s got the squeeze put on him, who’s a convicted liar, say he is a racist. Do you have any evidence at all, any way to corroborate your claims that he’s a racist?”
Meadows: But Mr. Cohen, I guess what I’m saying is — I’ve talked to the president over 300 times, I’ve not heard one time a racist comment out his mouth in private. So how do you reconcile it? Do you have proof of those conversations? Do you tape recordings of those conversations?
Cohen: No sir.
Meadows: Well you’ve taped everybody else.
Cohen: That’s also not true sir. That’s not true.
Meadows: You haven’t taped anybody?
Cohen: I have taped.
Meadows: How many times have you taped individuals?
Cohen: Maybe a hundred times over ten years.
Meadows: Is that a low estimate? Because I’ve heard it’s over 200 times.
So, you got this guy who’s so deceitful that he’s recording over a hundred private conversations, but he didn’t get any of those racist ones. Shucks, that’s too bad.