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Michael Cohen Admits Trumpers are a Cult and He’s Guilty of it Himself: ‘We’re Stupid and Fall Into a Cult’

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It has been six years since Rick Wilson famously wrote “Everything Trump Touches Dies,” or what’s become a simple #ETTD on Twitter. It seems self-evident that the “genius businessman” whose name is on a book entitled “The Art of the Deal” has failed, over and over, and would be infinitely richer right now had he just stuck every dollar his dad passed on into a mutual fund. Additionally, Trump only thrives in a tightly closed circle where he controls absolutely everything. It is why the White House looked bereft by the end of the term but for Jared and Meadows and dozens of “acting” cabinet members throughout. Trump burns through people.

No one understands the dynamic better than Michael Cohen. Today, Chuck Todd asked Cohen why people stick with Trump, even though things often turn out very badly for those close to him. Cohen laid out perhaps the best, most thorough explanation we’ve read yet. From Business Insider:

“You know I’ve answered this question a lot and people think I’m being humorous but I’m not. It’s because we’re stupid. For some reason, we fell into the cult of Donald J. Trump. There’s a lot of excitement. There’s a lot of energy around it.”

“We’ve seen what happened to me. You’ve seen what’s happening now to Rudy Guiliani. You see what’s happening to [John] Eastman. You see what’s now happening to Christina Bobb. You see what’s happening to Sydney Powell, and a multitude of other people.”

Yes, we have. Disbarred. Imprisoned. Broke. Yes, we’ve seen it.

“All of whom I would hope, including now [former chief of staff] Mark Meadows, would have listened to me when I said before the House Oversight Committee ‘I know the game that you’re playing and it’s not going to work out for you the same way it didn’t work out for me.'”

But the secret to Trump’s feral genius in survival? Making others “do the crime” and not leaving tracks.

He doesn’t do anything by email. He doesn’t do anything by text message. He has no fingerprints – something he learned from Roy Cohn and he doesn’t care about you,” he said. “He doesn’t care about anyone other than himself and he’s willing to throw you under the bus in order to protect himself.

Amazing what one can learn from the ultimate mob lawyer, Roy Cohn. One learns how almost to be, or actually be, a pretty good mob boss. Leave no fingerprints, demand ultimate loyalty, keep it exciting, and make sure someone else takes the fall… rules to live by if “Being nice, honest, humble, and hard-working” aren’t your thing.

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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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