Former Donald Trump personal lawyer Michael Cohen said the former president believes he is a God after CPAC organizers installed a gold statue of him at the Conservative conference.
The longtime fixer for Trump said the “stupid pagan idol of Donald” during the Conservative political action conference this weekend in Orlando, Florida, will give the former president a brief respite from an onslaught of investigations. Cohen told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on Saturday morning that Trump “may be crazy, but that he is not stupid” and said his ex-confidant realizes the pressure of pending lawsuits against him and his real estate organization. Cohen said Trump needs adultery and screaming supporters like most people need oxygen to breathe.
Cohen said Trump would publicly “pretend to be invincible,” but the former president is incredibly nervous about ongoing investigations by the district attorney from Manhattan and others.
“He really enjoys the cheers of the crowd. Now it’s even more interesting because of the artist who produced that golden Donald,” Cohen said Saturday, responding to photos showing hundreds of CPAC participants posing next to a golden Trump statue. ‘Now, he actually thinks he’s a god, like a pagan god, people are standing in the aisle in line to take a picture with a stupid pagan idol of Donald.
“You get a packed CPAC house of people who will come there to take a picture with the pagan Donald or to see him talk and to spread this horrible comment he’s been making for over five years now,” Cohen said, describing the former president’s behavior as ‘sociopathic’.
Cohen first began working as a lawyer for the Trump organization in 2006, ten years before his first presidential campaign. Cohen was sentenced in 2018 to three years in prison after pleading guilty to congressional charges, financial crimes and violations of campaign finances during his presidency. He was released in July last year and is serving the remainder of his sentence in house arrest until November 22, 2021.
The group Look Ahead America installed the artwork depicting Trump in the CPAC exhibition space as the former president prepares his first major speech to the presidency on Sunday. Cohen said Trump was working on CPAC’s decision to make him the face of the party’s future, despite his ties to the January 6 Capitol attacks and his continued denial that he lost the November election to President Joe Biden. .
“The [GOP] had a chance to move forward to 1/6, but Republican voters want Trump, ‘said Tim Miller, a former GOP strategist who left the party, in an interview on Friday. USA Today. “And rather than trying to counter that, the Republicans chose submission and erected a Trump gold idol.”
Indeed, what many have described as a GOP civil war since the riots in Capitol barely registers in the event’s speaking team, with leading Republican critics of the former president largely absent, in some cases despite having in recent years appeared regularly at the event.
MSNBC hosts Velshi and Cohen laughed at each other after Velshi described CPAC as a gathering of a bunch of people who say crazy things. ‘
Cohen praised New York Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance and high-profile litigator Mark Pomerantz for their efforts to seek justice against Trump, who evaded prosecution “all his life.”
“There’s a whole slew of lawsuits pending against him, and he actually hates being involved in the lawsuit if he’s the accused, he hates it,” Cohen said. He basically loses every case in which he is an accused because he is lying and you can ‘not let him sit for a deposit because his lawyers will not allow it because it will be filled with untruths. ‘
Newsweek reached out to Trump and Cohen representatives on Saturday morning for additional remarks.
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