Cohen a cautionary tale for Republicans

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By Michelle Goldberg / The New York Times

On a day when Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former fixer, testified about the price of loyalty to Donald Trump, a group of Republicans, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota, and Vivek Ramaswamy, a former presidential candidate, showed up at the courthouse to demonstrate their loyalty to Trump.

Sitting in the courtroom Tuesday on my first day at the trial, I kept wondering what they were thinking as they heard Cohen, seeming every bit the weary, reluctantly reformed TV gangster, testify about his mafia-like interactions with Trumpworld.

He described how, after his home and office were raided by the FBI, Trump encouraged him, both through a “really sketchy” lawyer and through his own Twitter posts, to, in Cohen’s words, “Stay in the fold, stay loyal, don’t flip.” He described how, once he decided “not to lie for President Trump any longer,” the then-president publicly attacked him.

Cohen now seems like a man whose life has been essentially wrecked; he went to prison, lost his law license, had to sell his New York and Chicago taxi medallions and is still on supervised release. Although his implosion has been particularly severe, he is far from alone; many people who’ve served Trump, no matter how faithfully, have been ruined in various ways by the experience.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/michelle-goldberg-cohen-a-cautionary-tale-for-republicans/

Donald Trump wants you to die for his sins.

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1. He's a mob figure.

Mobsters understand "Nobody leaves the mob alive"

paraphrased from "The Way of the Wiseguy" by Joe Pistone, the real-life Donnie Brasco

Also read this article:

https://www.pastemagazine.com/article/the-mob-movie-goodfellas-tells-us-everything-we-ne
The Mob Movie Goodfellas Tells Us Everything We Need to Know About Trump’s Universe


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Henry begins the film by telling us, “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States.” Trump is what happens when you try to have it both ways.

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Goodfellas nailed Trump’s type down to a T. Even if you believe wealth and power and strength are inherently admirable (they’re not), Goodfellas portrays the cheapest, shoddiest versions of those glories—the Trumpian versions, as it were.

A very good read.