Michael Cohen: ‘Not a single group in America’ that ‘lazy’ Trump hasn’t directly insulted

Published: Sep 13, 2024 Duration: 00:12:19 Category: News & Politics

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TRUTH IS, HE DOES NOT HAVE ACTUAL POLICIES TO PRESENT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, JUST CONCEPTS OF A PLAN AS HE DESCRIBES HIS IDEAS OF HEALTHCARE. JOIN MS. S MICHAEL COHEN, FORME PERSONAL ATTORNEY TO DONALD TRUMP. HE HOLDS A PODCAST, "POLITICAL BE DOWN." HE IS ALSO HOST OF THE YOUTUBE PROGRAM, "THE MICHAEL COHEN SHOW." YOU CAME WITH RECEIVES ABOUT THE NUMBER OF GROUPS, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ONE OR TWO, THAT DONALD TRUMP HAS INSULTED IN HIS TENURE OF POLITICS. >> THE ONLY TWO I CAN THINK OF ARE WHITE SUPREMACIST, AS WELL AS EVANGELICAL GROUP. SHORT OF THAT, THERE'S NOT A SINGLE GROUP IN AMERICA, WHETHER IT IS VETERANS, FIREFIGHTERS, POLICE OFFICERS, BLACKS, JEWS, MEXICANS. I ACTUALLY BOUGHT IT . IT IS THE FIRST TIME BEING ON ANY SHOW I'VE ACTUALLY BROUGHT NOTES WITH ME, BUT WOMEN, ASIAN AMERICANS, LATINOS, I MEAN WE CAN GO ON HERE. MUSLIMS, DISABLED PEOPLE, NATIVE AMERICANS, OBVIOUSLY THE HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS, AFRICAN NATIONS, HANDICAPPED JOURNALISTS, N PUERTO RICANS, NAME IT. THE QUESTION I WOULD SORT OF POSE IS, WHY ARE THERE ANY MEMBERS OF THESE COMMUNITIES THAT WOULD POSSIBLY VOTE FOR HIM , OR THINK THAT HE IS THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE JOB OF THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AGAIN? >> IS IT BECAUSE HE MORPHED SOME OF THESE THINGS? HE TALKS ABOUT THE WORDS OF IMMIGRANTS AND THE VARMINT, AS HE CALLS IT, WHICH IS A TERRIBLE EXAMPLE, BECAUSE THIS HAS BEEN USED AROUND THE WORLD WITH HITLER, WHERE YOU CALL PEOPLE SOMETHING-- TO DEHUMANIZE THEM. THEN, HE SAYS, THEY ARE TAKING 100%, 107% OF THE JOBS TAKEN BY BLACK PEOPLE, HISPANIC PEOPLE, WHATEVER. >> RIGHT, BECAUSE MATHEMATICS IS SPECTACULAR. >> ERHE IS GETTING PEOPLE AGAIN EACH OTHER. WHEN YOU SAY, WHY WOULD THESE PEOPLE SUPPORT HIM? IT IS BECAUSE IT IS BY DESIGN TO MAKE SOMEONE BLAME SOMEBODY ELSE. >> ABSOLUTELY. LET ME ASK YOU THIS, NAME ONE OF THE GROUPS, AND I WILL GIVE YOU SPECIFICS. THIS IS NOT ME MAKING IT UP. THIS IS WHAT HE SAID BEFORE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOUT SPECIFIC GROUPS. PICK ANY ONE. >> WE PLAYED ONE THING WHERE I SAID IN ONE JEWISH WOULD VOTE FOR MIKE HARRIS THEY WOULD NEED TO HAVE THEIR HEAD EXAMINED. THAT IS NOT THE FIRST OR THE WORST THING YOU SAID ABOUT HER. >> NO, BUT HIS COMMENTS WERE ONE OF TRUMP'S MOST EGREGIOUS MARKS CAME IN 2019 WHEN HE TOLD AMERICAN JEWISH VOTERS IF YOU VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT, YOU'RE BEING VERY DISLOYAL TO JEWISH PEOPLE AND VERY DISLOYAL TO ISRAEL. THIS OF COURSE INSINUATES THAT AMERICAN WALZ WOULD HAVE DUAL LOYALTY , WHICH IS A LONG, LONG-STANDING ANTI- SEMITIC TROPE. HE ALSO ONONCE SAID, THAT THE ONLY KIND OF PEOPLE I WANT COUNTING MY MONEY ARE SHORT GUYS THAT WEAR YARMULKES, REINFORCING, OBVIOUSLY, THE STEREOTYPE ABOUT JEWS AND MONEY. LET'S NOT FORGET AS WELL ABOUT HIS REFUSAL TO DENOUNCE PEOPLE LIKE DAVID DUKE, OR HIS COMMENTS REGARDING CHARLOTTESVILLE WHEN HE TURNED AROUND AND HE CLAIMED THAT E THERE WERE GOOD PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES, REPORTING REFERRING TO THE WHITE SUPREMACIST MARCHING WITH TIKI TORCHES THING, JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US. >> KAMALA HARRIS IS GENERALLY SPEAKING, LETTING DONALD TRUMP DIG HIS OWN GRAVE HERE. SHE DOES NOT TEND TO LEAN INTO THIS. YOUR POINT IS A VALID ONE. FOR PEOPLE WHO, I DON'T KNOW, THEY ARE NOT FOLLOWING THE NEWS OR WHATEVER, AND THINK HE IS BETTER ON INFLATION OR BETTER FOR THIS, BETTER FOR THAT, HOW DO YOU MESSAGE THIS IDEA? HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN TO PEOPLE-- YOU'VE GOT A LIST THERE, 20 OR SO POINTS OF INSULT HE HAS MADE TWO DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS, ETHNIC, OR DIFFERENT GROUPS. >> BY SPEAKING OUT, BY HAVING PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF INVITE PEOPLE LIKE ME TO THIS SHOW TO SPEAK AS AN AMERICAN, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT IS BEING JEWISH, WHITE, BLACK, MUSLIM, CHRISTIAN, MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. HE HAS INSULTED EVERY SINGLE GROUP. THE ONLY WAY TO COMBAT DONALD TRUMP'S FOOLISHNESS IS TO JUST KEEP TALKING ABOUT IT. KEEP BRINGING UP SPECIFICS. THERE IS A WHOLE GROUP OF MAGA THAT NO MATTER WHAT SPECIFICS YOU BRING UP TO THEM , DOESN'T MATTER. THEY IGNORE IT. THEY DO NOT CARE, THEY ARE ALL IN FOR HIM. WHY? BECAUSE THEY FALL INTO THE SAME BELIEF SYSTEM AS DONALD. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU HEARD ALL THE AND ME TURN AROUND AND SAY, HE IS RACIST, SEXIST, MISOGYNIST. >> YOU POINTED OUT IN 2017 WHEN THE HURRICANES SWEPT THROUGH THE CARIBBEAN AND TOOK A NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN FROM HAITI ON HUMANITARIAN GROUNDS. >> RIGHT. WHAT DID HE SAY? HE SAID, WHY ARE WE TAKING THESE AIDS INFESTED IMMIGRANTS INTO OUR COUNTRY, WHEN THERE ARE PEOPLE FROM NORWAY WHO ARE LOOKING TO COME HERE? IT DOES NOT TAKE A ROCKET SCIENTIST TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HE IS SAYING HERE. THEY LOOK LIKE HIM, AS OPPOSED TO BEING BLACK. WHAT INFORMATION, WHAT EMPIRICAL DATA DOES DONALD TRUMP HAVE THAT WOULD SUGGEST THAT EVERYONE IN HAITI HAS A? IMAGINE AGAIN WHAT YOU ARE DOING, TO YOUR POINT BEFORE, HE IS PITTING ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE AGAINST ANOTHER THAT IS ALL HE IS DOING. IT IS RACE BAITING. >> ON ONE HAND, AND KAMALA HARRIS BROUGHT THIS UP IN THE DEBATE, OBVIOUSLY, HE HAS BEEN DOING THIS FOR SOME TIME WITH THE CENTRAL PART FIVE, AND THE THINGS HE AND HIS FATHER WERE DOING IN TERMS OF RENTING PROPERTIES. DO YOU THINK THERE HAS BEEN A DECLINE OR THIS HAS BEEN FULLY ORCHESTRATED BECAUSE HE THINKS HE MIGHT LOSE THE ELECTION THAT THIS IS WHAT HE HAS GOT LEFT? THIS IS A TECHNIQUE HE KNOWS AND HISTORY HAS PROVED AROUND THE WORLD THAT THIS KIND OF STUFF HE DOES DOES WORK? >> THIS IS ALL HE HAS LEFT. THE WHOLE NOTION OF EITHER A CONCEPT OF A POLICY YOU KNOW WHAT THAT STANDS FOR? IT MEANS, I HAVE NOTHING. WHAT HE KNOWS IS ONE THING, WHEN HE LOSES ACCOUNTABILITY IS AT HIS DOORSTEP. I WANT TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION, LIKE JUDGE JUAN MERSHON SET SENTENCING IN THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY CRIMINAL FOR COUNT CASE I WAS HE WITNESSING THE DAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING. I JUST WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A QUICK SECOND, ON WHAT THE TABLES AROUND THIS HE COUNTRY, THE CONVERSATION, ARE GOING TO LOOK LIKE. >> RIGHT. >>> MICHAEL COHEN IS BACK WITH ME. LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS. TALK ABOUT THE PEOPLE EATING PETS, IT IS ACTUALLY NOT UNRELATED TO THE CONVERSATION THAT IS HOLDING UP GOVERNMENT FUNDING, WHICH MIGHT RESULT IN A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, BECAUSE THERE IS A BILL THAT WOULD MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO VOTE IF YOU ARE A NONCITIZEN. ALERT, IT IS ALREADY ILLEGAL TO VOTE IF YOU ARE A NONCITIZEN. IT FEELS LIKE WE ARE LAYING GROUNDWORK FOR THE BIG LIFE 2.0, DONALD TRUMP LOSES, IT WILL BE ABOUT THAT WHATEVER KIND OF IMMIGRANTS ILLEGALLY VOTED IN THE ELECTION, THAT IS WHY DEMOCRATS GOT MORE VOTES. >> AGAIN, IT GOES OVER TO HIS OVERINFLATED AND FRAGILE EGO. HE CANNOT LOSE. HOW CAN HE LOSE TO A WOMAN? HOW CAN HE LOSE TO A BLACK WOMAN? HE NEEDS TO COME UP WITH AN EXCUSE IN ADVANCE, KNOWING HE IS GOING TO LOSE THE ELECTION. HE NEEDS THE BIG LIFE NUMBER TWO IN ORDER TO KEEP THE GREATEST GOING. THAT IS ALL THIS IS ABOUT. >> LET'S TALK ABOUT WASHINGTON. I STARTED MY CONVERSATION WITH THIS. A LITTLE OVER A WEEK AGO, YOU GAVE A DISCUSSION FULL OF ECONOMIES, ECONOMIC JOURNALISTS, AND HE GAVE A NONSENSICAL ANSWER TO A SIMPLE QUESTION ABOUT CHILDCARE. WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT? I WOULD'VE THOUGHT HE WOULD HAVE RAISED HIS GAME. AND THEN HE HAD REPORTERS THAT WERE TRYING TO EXPLAIN WHAT HE ACTUALLY MEANT TO SAY. NO NEED TO EXPLAIN WHAT DONALD TRUMP MEANT TO SAY, HE COULD DO IT HIMSELF. >> AND HE DID DO IT HIMSELF, HE ILLUSTRATED HIS LACK OF CHILDCARE AND UNDERSTANDING, AND TERRORISTS. THE REASON, I SAW THIS, I AM DRAWN FROM MY PAST EXPERIENCES IN 2015, 2016, DURING THAT ELECTION. DONALD TRUMP IS GENERALLY A LAZY GUY. PEOPLE SAY, WHAT DO YOU MEAN? I HAVE SEEN HIM GO FROM RALLY TO RALLY, SURE. HE GETS ON HIS OWN AIRCRAFT, GOES INTO THE BACK, GOES TO SLEEP, GETS THERE, WAKES UP, BRUSHES HIS HAIR COME UP WITH A LITTLE HAIRSPRAY ON, AND OFF TO THE RALLY HE GOES WHERE PEOPLE ARE CHEERING FOR HIM. HE LOVED THE ADULATION. HE IS LAZY IN THE FACT THAT HE DOES NOT READ AND HE WILL NOT PREPARE. IT IS LIKE AN HARRIS DESTROYED HIM IN THIS DEBATE. IT IS THE SAME THING AS IT RELATES TO THIS ECONOMIC CLUB CONVERSATION. HE DID NOT PREPARE FOR IT AT ALL. >> WHICH HE SHOULD HAVE, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY, QUESTIONS LIKE THAT WOULD COME. >> THAT YOU SEE THE FACES OF THE ECONOMISTS THAT WERE THERE ON THAT PANEL LOOKING AT HIM SAYING, SERIOUSLY? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? WE ASKED A VERY STRAIGHTFORWARD QUESTION, AND YOU GOT SOME RAMBLING NONSENSE, AS FOR THE MOVIE "YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN" YEARS AGO, IT IS THE RAMBLINGS OF A LUNATIC MIND. AND THAT IS ON US. >> IT IS HONEST TO SOME DEGREE TO MAKE SURE THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN AND TO CALL IT OUT WHEN IT HAPPENS. YOU CAN'T JUST DO THIS. YOU CAN JUST TREATED AS ACCEPTABLE. YOU CAN'T SAY WHEN HE IS TALKING ABOUT SHARKS AND GETTING ELECTROCUTED, THERE SOME REASONABLE EXPLANATION BETWEEN SHARKS AND GETTING ELECTROCUTED. >> IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. THANK GOD FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF AND OTHERS ON THIS NETWORK, WHERE THEY REFUSED TO ALLOW THE SAME WASHING TO CONTINUE. THEY FIGHT IT AT EVERY TURN. THAT DOES NOT MEAN YOU WILL BE ABLE TO TURN AROUND AND TO CONVINCE THE MAGA SUPPORTERS, THEY ARE IRRELEVANT. THEY ARE IN THE CAMP, IN THE DUMPSTER CULT OF DONALD TRUMP, NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY, NO MATTER HOW MUCH LEGITIMATE PROOF, EVIDENCE THAT YOU PROVIDE, THEY DON'T BELIEVE IT, THEY NEED TO SANEWASH HIM. THAT IS NOT MEAN THAT THERE IS NOT ENOUGH INDEPENDENCE, INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NOT YET COMMITTED TO ONE OR THE OTHER. THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE. >> 81 MILLION PEOPLE VOTED FOR BY JOE BIDEN IN THE LAST ELECTION. 81 MILLION PEOPLE DID NOT VOTE WHO COULD HAVE VOTED. THE POINT IS, THERE IS LOTS OF SPACE FOR PEOPLE TO BE CONVINCED OF SOMETHING WITHOUT HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT THOSE PEOPLE WHO WILL NEVER LISTEN TO A BAD WORD ABOUT DONALD TRUMP. >> CORRECT. >> AND THE SANEWASHING NEEDS TO COME TO AN END. LET DONALD TRUMP TELL YOU WHO HE IS. HE HAS ALREADY MADE IT CRYSTAL CLEAR WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT, FOR EXAMPLE, REWRITING THE CONSTITUTION. WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT BEING ABLE TO DESTROY OUR TRIPARTITE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT TO GET RID OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH, SUPREME COURT, UNDERSTAND, THIS IS TO YOU. HE IS GOING TO GET RID OF YOU AS WELL. WE TALKED ABOUT GETTING RID OF THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH AND CONFIRMING ALL POWER TO THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH, MAINLY HIMSELF, MAKING HIM-- >> KEEPS DENYING HE HAS GOT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS. THIS IS WRITTEN BY HIS PEOPLE. >> BY ALL OF HIS PEOPLE. I THINK TWO CHAPTERS AREN'T WRITTEN BY PEOPLE CONNECTED TO HIM. IT IS AGAIN ANOTHER LIVE I DONALD TRUMP TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN ORDER TO-- FOR WHATEVER THE REASON MAY BE, TO BE AT THEM. IF YOU WROTE THIS MANIFESTO FOR AMERICA'S DEMOCRACY DESTRUCTION, OWN IT, TAKE IT, HE REFUSES TO DO THAT, ONLY BECAUSE FOR ONE REASON, HE WAS NOT BEING WELL-RECEIVED. IF THAT MANIFESTO WAS WELL RECEIVED, HE'D BE THE FIRST ONE ALL OVER IT. >> BUT WE CAN GUARANTEE HE HAS NOT READ IT. >> I DON'T THINK YOU READ PAGE NUMBER ONE. >> HE HAS HEARD THERE IS SOME UNPOPULAR STUFF IN HERE, SO HE IS NOT TALKING ABOUT IT. HE HAS A

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