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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,739 posts)
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 02:59 PM Sep 2020

Michael Cohen's Daughter Reveals How She Was Sexualized by Donald Trump as a Teen

Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen isn’t the only one revealing tales of him time with the president — Cohen’s 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 it’s 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. “I’d love some of that.” Little did Trump know, he was talking about Cohen’s then 15-year-old daughter. Cohen turned to Trump and said, “That’s my daughter.”

Cohen’s book continues to recount the uncomfortable anecdote: “That’s your daughter? When did she get so hot?” Trump said. Cohen writes that he didn’t respond but remembered thinking, “Who talks about a man’s 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 I’ll be dating one of your friends.”

Cohen shares this disturbing experience while also acknowledging that he didn’t know how to protect his daughter — and admitted it wasn’t 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

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Michael Cohen's Daughter Reveals How She Was Sexualized by Donald Trump as a Teen (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
Exhibit #9243932192949392 Blecht Sep 2020 #1
"Samantha approached her father and gave him a kiss on the cheek, Trump apparently asked for JI7 Sep 2020 #2
This is why Trump trash spews lies about Biden and calling others Pedos JI7 Sep 2020 #3
The loathsome, leering letch Blue Owl Sep 2020 #4
"When did you get such a beautiful figure?" Trump said. He said basically the same thing to his Stardust Sep 2020 #5
Gross MustLoveBeagles Sep 2020 #19
sick, sick fucker Skittles Sep 2020 #6
As someone who experienced EndlessWire Sep 2020 #15
He sure is!! What a disgusting piece of shit. Vivienne235729 Sep 2020 #20
And today's "Birds of a Feather" award goes to . . . Michael Cohen! OneBro Sep 2020 #7
Trump is the evil piece of shit - not Cohen, not Woodward. It's cowardly Bunker Boy. AnotherMother4Peace Sep 2020 #8
You should really read the Vanity Fair intrview. Crunchy Frog Sep 2020 #16
Thanks. I just went and read the article. OneBro Sep 2020 #21
This is repulsive, but... AngryOldDem Sep 2020 #9
Since the news story quote mainly talks about Cohen's book... regnaD kciN Sep 2020 #10
Thanks. I had forgotten about that angle. AngryOldDem Sep 2020 #11
I just finished reading this account in Cohen's book. mnhtnbb Sep 2020 #12
I'd like to sat this is shocking mnmoderatedem Sep 2020 #13
"I wish her well." Kid Berwyn Sep 2020 #14
Fuck his job, fuck his career. Cohen should have broken his orange jaw right then and there Tarc Sep 2020 #17
Which explains his "friendship" with Epstein and Epstein's "suicide". nt live love laugh Sep 2020 #18

JI7

(89,239 posts)
2. "Samantha approached her father and gave him a kiss on the cheek, Trump apparently asked for
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 03:05 PM
Sep 2020

one too"

Fucking disgusting .

JI7

(89,239 posts)
3. This is why Trump trash spews lies about Biden and calling others Pedos
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 03:07 PM
Sep 2020

They know THEY are supporting a pervert and want to accuse others of something they do.

Like Trump's "you're the puppet".

EndlessWire

(6,455 posts)
15. As someone who experienced
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 07:07 PM
Sep 2020

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.






OneBro

(1,159 posts)
7. And today's "Birds of a Feather" award goes to . . . Michael Cohen!
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 03:22 PM
Sep 2020

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.

Crunchy Frog

(26,578 posts)
16. You should really read the Vanity Fair intrview.
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 07:38 PM
Sep 2020
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/michael-cohens-daughter-reflects-on-his-time-with-trump/amp

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)
21. Thanks. I just went and read the article.
Sun Sep 13, 2020, 03:30 PM
Sep 2020

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)
9. This is repulsive, but...
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 04:45 PM
Sep 2020

...maybe I’m missing something but Cohen didn’t know how to protect his daughter? For starters, you don’t 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)
10. Since the news story quote mainly talks about Cohen's book...
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 05:16 PM
Sep 2020

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 Trump’s 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 they’re entitled to whatever they want because their money makes them übermensch.

AngryOldDem

(14,061 posts)
11. Thanks. I had forgotten about that angle.
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 05:59 PM
Sep 2020

When I heard this last week I just had a visceral reaction to it. Still do. This is the man’s child, for God’s sake. Choosing to put up with Trump’s bullshit over one’s own daughter...

I have Cohen’s book on hold at the library. I may take a pass on it now. And I hope I’m not being fatally naive to think that the bill does come due, no matter how entitled someone thinks he is.

mnhtnbb

(31,373 posts)
12. I just finished reading this account in Cohen's book.
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 06:09 PM
Sep 2020

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.

Kid Berwyn

(14,795 posts)
14. "I wish her well."
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 06:29 PM
Sep 2020

“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Mr. Trump told New York magazine in 2002. “He’s 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)
17. Fuck his job, fuck his career. Cohen should have broken his orange jaw right then and there
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 08:00 PM
Sep 2020

Obviously this is Evidence #567578 of Trump being a despicable cretin, but this story doesn't make Cohen look so hot either.

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