Posted on 08/10/2023 4:03:31 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
In early 2015, a man who runs a small technology company showed up at Trump Tower to collect $50,000 for having helped Michael Cohen, then Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, try to rig online polls in his boss’s favor before the presidential campaign.
In his Trump Organization office, Mr. Cohen surprised the man, John Gauger, by giving him both a blue Walmart bag containing between $12,000 and $13,000 in cash and, randomly, a boxing glove that Mr. Cohen said had been worn by a Brazilian mixed-martial arts fighter, Mr. Gauger said.
Mr. Cohen disputed that he handed over a bag of cash. “All monies paid to Mr. Gauger were by check,” he said, offering no further comment on his ties to the consultant.
In a tweet on Thursday, Mr. Cohen said Mr. Trump knew he was trying to have the polls rigged. “What I did was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of [Mr. Trump],” Mr. Cohen wrote. “I truly regret my blind loyalty to a man who doesn’t deserve it.”
Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for Mr. Trump, said of Mr. Cohen’s tweet: “My response will be a cleaned-up version of ‘Bullshit.’”
“This is not true. The president did not know about this if it happened,” Mr. Giuliani said in an interview.
Mr. Gauger owns RedFinch Solutions LLC and is chief information officer at Liberty University in Virginia, where Jerry Falwell Jr., an evangelical leader and fervent Trump supporter, is president.
Mr. Gauger said he never got the rest of what he claimed he was owed. But Mr. Cohen in early 2017 still asked for—and received—a $50,000 reimbursement from Mr. Trump and his company for the work by RedFinch, according to a government document and a person familiar with the matter.
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No one takes online polls seriously. They’re easily gamed by bots. We even used to “freep” such polls.
Trump used it? Gullible to believe a convicted bullshit artist and con man.
Michael Cohen the convict?
Trump hatin’ FReepers are at it today. LOL
Or anything printed in the WSJ.
Sheesh.
You assume what Cohen stated was truthful.
Now, I know that DeSanctimonious supporters would like to find dirt on President Trump, but given that ALL of the accusations used to try and smear President Trump in the eyes of his supporters have been proven to be lies to date, why would you choose to believe this liar??
Furthermore, since President Trump is an honest man, has he confirmed these accusations?
Just today?
LOL!
Who cares?
[My favorite sources are usually “experts”, but I am beginning to like “a person familiar with the matter.” ]
frank luntz has that market cornered and he is a swamp dweller.
“”In early 2015”
Statute of limitations?
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Michael Cohen is a particularly nasty scum-sucking lowlife
This says lots more about the reliability of polls than it does about Trump.
So Cohen did it, if illegal prosecute him. Seems like something he’d do. Nothing here suggests Trump knew or was involved.
OMG! Hillary was right! They rigged the 2016 election. I just read that the Col. dude always commenting on Urkraine losing said the 1960 election was stolen by Kennedy (we always knew that!) but Nixon did not have the stones to contest. So hear it loud. ALL elections since 1960 were rigged, So we posthumously? give Gore and Kerry and Dukakis participation trophies for their trouble. ☺
“Person familiar with the matter”
Probably Cohen?
2019 story. Why post now?
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