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Donald Trumps former attorney Michael Cohen isnt the only one revealing tales of him time with the president Cohens daughter Samantha has also opened up about a rather disturbing encounter with President Trump. In a revealing new interview Friday with Vanity Fair, the now 24-year-old recounts being sexualized by Trump when she was a teenager and its a memory that her father also details in his newly released tell-all Disloyal.
As Cohen details in the book, it was a hot summer day in 2012 when he was standing with Trump outside the pool area at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, discussing some pressing business matter, like the size of the breasts of a woman sunbathing on a lounge chair. Cohen writes that he remembers Trump whistling and looking over at the tennis courts: Look at that piece of a**, Trump said. Id love some of that. Little did Trump know, he was talking about Cohens then 15-year-old daughter. Cohen turned to Trump and said, Thats my daughter.
Cohens book continues to recount the uncomfortable anecdote: Thats your daughter? When did she get so hot? Trump said. Cohen writes that he didnt respond but remembered thinking, Who talks about a mans daughter in that way? And when Samantha approached her father and gave him a kiss on the cheek, Trump apparently asked for one too to which the teen complied with a tiny peck. Cohen writes that Trump then offered him a bro-like bumped fist after questioning Samantha about her looks. When did you get such a beautiful figure? Trump said. You better watch out because in a few years Ill be dating one of your friends.
Cohen shares this disturbing experience while also acknowledging that he didnt know how to protect his daughter and admitted it wasnt the first or last time it happened. As usual, not knowing how to extricate myself from the situation and spare my sweet daughter any more of this unwanted and inappropriate attention.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/michael-cohens-daughter-reveals-she-232420061.html
Blecht
(3,803 posts)Trump is a danger to every person on the planet.
JI7
(89,239 posts)one too"
Fucking disgusting .
JI7
(89,239 posts)They know THEY are supporting a pervert and want to accuse others of something they do.
Like Trump's "you're the puppet".
Blue Owl
(50,259 posts)Stardust
(3,894 posts)niece, Mary TrumpYoure stacked.
Hes a disgusting pig of a man.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/youre-stacked-trump-complimented-his-nieces-breasts-in-front-of-wife-book-says/ar-BB16spP3
MustLoveBeagles
(11,583 posts)Skittles
(153,111 posts)he is a predator
EndlessWire
(6,455 posts)unwanted sexual attention from a family member, I agree that it is predatory behavior and utterly disgusting. Children are more fragile than realized.
But, although I understand Cohen's inability to protect his daughter, I think he should have hauled off and punched him in the face.
Vivienne235729
(3,377 posts)OneBro
(1,159 posts)Cohen couldn't have been too disgusted by the experience if he helped usher Trump into the White House. Both of them are about as sleazy as sleazy can get. Get too close to Cohen, Trump, Giuliani, or Dershowitz and you will NEVER get that sulfur smell out of your clothes.
AnotherMother4Peace
(4,237 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,578 posts)The daughter's own perspective is an interesting one. Cohen sounds like he was actually a very loving and devoted father who got caught up in Trump's system of domination and control.
OneBro
(1,159 posts)It didn't change my overall opinion of Cohen, but his daughter does make him sound like a devoted father before Trump sorta took over his life. I don't expect people to be perfect - or even close to perfection - but I do think Cohen opted for the life with Trump because he liked the personal and financial benefits of the relationship. Like everyone else in Trump's sphere, though, Cohen ultimately got bitten by the very snake he protected all those years. Some folks now see Cohen as one of Trump's incidental victims. I do not.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)...maybe Im missing something but Cohen didnt know how to protect his daughter? For starters, you dont let her anywhere near that sick fuck ever again. You make it clear that if anything like that is ever said again, straws and pureed food will be needed. Finally, you resign on the spot and not have anything ever to do with him again.
Once again, Trump skates on any responsibility for his actions. His fascination with and sexualization of young girls (including Ivanka as a preteen and teen) would be enough to get anybody else put on some kind of predator watch list.
God, I hope the bill comes due soon on everything this bastard has done over the course of his miserable life.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)Last edited Sat Sep 12, 2020, 06:34 PM - Edit history (1)
...it should be noted that Samantha Cohen, in the actual interview, says she found Trumps comment almost meaningless, because she was, by then, used to be sexualized by the mobsters I mean businessmen who worked with her father. Yet more examples of how, in our hypercapitalist patriarchal society, the rich are different rich men, at least, seem to think wealth removes the necessity of filtering themselves according to common behavior codes, and that theyre entitled to whatever they want because their money makes them übermensch.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)When I heard this last week I just had a visceral reaction to it. Still do. This is the mans child, for Gods sake. Choosing to put up with Trumps bullshit over ones own daughter...
I have Cohens book on hold at the library. I may take a pass on it now. And I hope Im not being fatally naive to think that the bill does come due, no matter how entitled someone thinks he is.
mnhtnbb
(31,373 posts)The story comes after Cohen recounts traveling with Trump to Las Vegas for a Miss Universe competition. He reports all sorts of crass, sexual comments about the contestants. They also went to a really sleazy club. Think Golden Showers.
At the time of the incident with Cohen's daughter, his entire family wanted him to quit working for Trump. He didn't need the money. He was already wealthy. He couldn't pull himself away from the cult of personality.
As I've been reading the book, it makes me think at some point Cohen has had some psychotherapy. He has insight which I wouldn't expect, given how long he worked for Trump, how connected he was to the man, and the type of things he was willing to do for the guy.
mnmoderatedem
(3,722 posts)but this is trump
Kid Berwyn
(14,795 posts)Ive known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy, Mr. Trump told New York magazine in 2002. Hes a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.
Tarc
(10,472 posts)Obviously this is Evidence #567578 of Trump being a despicable cretin, but this story doesn't make Cohen look so hot either.