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Ginger's avatar

he's performative...it's meaningless except it keeps his magas that are left in blind adoration..and the Fedrealist Society & Heritage Foundation gets one more step closer to his "pretend" dictatorship..... once the game is complete trump is toast and the 2025 authors will put in their chosen one

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Rowland Scherman's avatar

scary.

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Cheryl Schaeffer's avatar

Spot on, Michael!

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Farmers AGAINST Thumper's avatar

Market manipulation and I’m fucking sick of the shit and no one calling it what it is.

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Grandma Judy's avatar

I lived next to a local farmer in upstate NY who voted for trump because “he’s (trump) a businessman”. Nothing would change his mind…too many cow kicks to the head??!

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MM Harris's avatar

I guess that farmer was impressed by any "businessman", even if they were the scummiest, most corrupt, person doing "business" possible ... and even if that "businessman" ended up screwing HIM & all other farmers...

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Jaime HG 🇺🇸's avatar

MAGA=Morons Are Governing America” 💯. And MAGATS are just eating grifter pie for dinner. Wake up!

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MM Harris's avatar

Another great article showcasing one of the main reasons I am a paid subscriber to Michael Cohen's substack: HE KNOWS TRUMP - what drives him and how he behaves in order to get what he wants. Super useful!!!

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Michael Cohen's avatar

Thank you!!!

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MM Harris's avatar

You're WELCOME! NOBODY else can do what you can.

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Michelle Landa's avatar

Nobody understands this egotistical maniacal circus barker like you do. Keep talking as you do. Your message is spreading more and more every day.

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Elaine H's avatar

Michael, very wise words and have known this for decades. I was stunned in 2016 when he won, now again? I believe he is going to burn it all down.

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Grandma Judy's avatar

ONLY if WE let him!

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DBella's avatar

He's not a president, certainly not my president. He has set his stage for the world to see this grand performance of his. He's dumber than dirt. He has no conscience. Hopefully we won't have to tolerate this for much longer.

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Agent#99's avatar

47 reached a "trade deal" with China, he says? So the "deal" is to go back the way it was before the Big Bad Wolf huffed and puffed? That's not a deal- that is backpedaling. We got nothing but markets tanking, rollercoasting, increased prices, and product shipment delays on that one. Tariff games with China are like squid games- it's red light, green light. Why do sycophants praise 47 for trying to fix what he broke? If you break my favorite vase and then get the glue to "fix" it, I still have a cracked vase that will leak some water or be a weaker vessel with increased breakable potential. Have we missed the point that he has 4 years presidential experience behind him and should operate virtually flawlessly if he were a "normal" leader? But I guess that is the REAL point...he is NOT normal. THIS is not normal.

Michael, keep speaking your truth. I have heard critics say that COHEN worked for 47; how can we trust him? Well, what I KNOW is that YOU went to jail for HIM; he did not go. What I SEE is that you are trying to right those wrongs, using the comprehensive knowledge that you have of him. What I HEAR is YOU telling the world what you know about him and how dangerous he is; YOU are blowing the whistle, sounding the alarm bells, riding Revere's horse to tell us that fascism has come. Michael, I appreciate your standing up and speaking out for truth and democracy. Help comes in many forms. When Democrats say it, it's is one thing; they are the opposing party. When brave and principled Republicans or former ones shout out, for me, it really grabs my attention, because I know that they have a lot more to lose and have already lost the real Republican party. Thank you, Michael, for taking a stand and for enlisting others to speak out as well to have all of their voices heard.

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AAA M's avatar

Agent 99, you can be MY president.

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Agent#99's avatar

LOL! I'd probably fire everyone and start fresh. I was a principal, and I selected my staff VERY carefully. Character, along with qualifications and relevant experience, was just as important!

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AAA M's avatar

Even though I'm a descendant of Patrick Henry I'm not good at speaking but I love everything you said above and totally agree with you. Keep on spreading the word and speaking out to us all who care about democracy.

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Agent#99's avatar

Wow! I am a descendant of George Washington and multiple others who fought for these freedoms. Thank you! Keep resisting, in the name of all that is holy and good, and to carry on the work of our ancestors! :)

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AAA M's avatar

We're famous : ) LOL

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Judy Cross's avatar

Wouldn't it be wonderful if reputable newspapers and news stations would put in bold print the amount that tRump has, so far, put in his own pocket versus how much the American public has lost. Big bold letters for all to see. Starting from day one to the present. It wouldn't hurt to put the the amounts of his children and his rich friends and anyone else that it profiting from our pain to their gain.

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nicole reisch galante's avatar

Which reputable newspapers/news stations? They have, in many ways, been challenged and compromised by Trump. Listen to Michael’s or Lev’s podcast for truth and exposure of the facts that MSM won’t say or print.

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Judy Cross's avatar

I realize that they have been compromised. I would like to believe that there has to be some out there that haven't sold their souls to the devil.

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nicole reisch galante's avatar

MSN, even if not fully compromised then tainted. Best news we get is British, German and Italian just to get their slant on things and try and figure it all out!!!

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dee's avatar

You said yesterday (often) that to get tRump supporters to turn on him they need to feel or understand the pain personally. Is there any way you can think of besides REMOVAL or death that would get tRump to stop?

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Rue Ryuzaki's avatar

Read this in your voice, but yes this is a con for enrichment purposes. Never has been about the wellbeing of Americans. But yet him, the conspiracy theorists grifters & others have convinced a segment of the population otherwise. As his actions continues to keep coming back to bite us all in the ass.

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Connie McKinley's avatar

I've said all along he's in it for the attention, adulation and money he can make or "steal". How people don't realize this is beyond me. New state-of- the-art Air Force One from Qatar? What's wrong with this picture?

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Rue Ryuzaki's avatar

I know it’s a scheme for the very enrichment that many of his supporters had complained about politicians before but yet they support this guy who literally does the very things they claim that they hate “traditional” or “typical” politicians did out in the open.

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skayen's avatar

Michael, your columns are always outstanding, but this one really nails tRump. Your readers should forward it to everyone they know. I will.

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Paul Olmsted's avatar

“ Garage sale of America’s

credibility “

The damage goes beyond t-Rump’s

lining his pocket book, our nation will suffer for years when / if we can

begin to regain the trust of our own allies first then the rest of the world .

The US Dollar has been the instrument of the reserve currency of the world since the close of WW II

- it is based on the confidence of the American people and the trust of the rest of the world that it can bring stability to markets . Can one man’s

ego blow it all up ?

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Hanneke Wasserman's avatar

I already figured it out yesterday, all because of you and lev etc telling us the important portions. And I wish they would stop putting him on all TV channels, he makes me sick 😫

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Mathias Risse's avatar

He acts like a man with dementia, unable to think more than one thought at once.

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