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Exclusive: Trump fixer Cohen says he helped Falwell handle racy photos
Reuters ^ | 05 07 2019 | Aram Roston

Posted on 05/07/2019 2:50:54 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Months before evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr.’s game-changing presidential endorsement of Donald Trump in 2016, Falwell asked Trump fixer Michael Cohen for a personal favor, Cohen said in a recorded conversation reviewed by Reuters.

Falwell, president of Liberty University, one of the world’s largest Christian universities, said someone had come into possession of what Cohen described as racy “personal” photographs — the sort that would typically be kept “between husband and wife,” Cohen said in the taped conversation.

According to a source familiar with Cohen’s thinking, the person who possessed the photos destroyed them after Cohen intervened on the Falwells’ behalf.

The Falwells, through a lawyer, declined to comment for this article.

Cohen, who began a three-year prison sentence this week for federal campaign violations and lying to Congress, recounted his involvement in the matter in a recording made surreptitiously by comedian Tom Arnold on March 25. Portions of the recording — in which Cohen appeared to disavow parts of his guilty plea — were first reported April 24 by The Wall Street Journal.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: beckifalwell; cohen; giancarlogranda; hmmm; jerryfalwelljr; kinky; libertyuniversity; trump; watersports
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Just when I think we know everything something else is revealed.

Every day another shoe drops. How many shoes are there?

1 posted on 05/07/2019 2:50:54 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Were they pictures of him and his wife? So what.


2 posted on 05/07/2019 2:52:41 PM PDT by marajade (Skywalker)
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To: yesthatjallen

Sure, Cohen is completely trustworthy.


3 posted on 05/07/2019 2:53:43 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: yesthatjallen

Might be another lie...easily


4 posted on 05/07/2019 2:54:09 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: yesthatjallen

Cohen’s been caught out in telling lies before.

I don’t see any reason to believe him in this.


5 posted on 05/07/2019 2:54:29 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: yesthatjallen

So, who at this point would hire Cohen as attorney?

And what are his chances at a pardon from Trump?


6 posted on 05/07/2019 2:59:33 PM PDT by marron
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Were they pictures of him and his wife? So what.

Exactly. I have a friend whose 92 year old mother died. While cleaning out her house he found such pictures exchanged between she and her late husband. Unnerving. But nothing essentially wrong with it.


7 posted on 05/07/2019 3:00:58 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: yesthatjallen

Michael Cohen “re-defines” exactly what a completely worthless piece of $hit looks like!


8 posted on 05/07/2019 3:02:01 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: yesthatjallen
Every day another shoe drops.


9 posted on 05/07/2019 3:05:42 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Unnerving.”

Why? were they

(Drumm roll)

“Under Developed”?


10 posted on 05/07/2019 3:06:28 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus (<img src=(;.()))
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To: marajade

My guess would be another woman, perhaps with blackmail in mind.

Cohen’s specialty is thuggery, so Trump apparently lent his legal thug to Falwell.

One would think it covered under a retainer from Trump and so confidential. But what does one know?


11 posted on 05/07/2019 3:07:58 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

Even if, so what? Personal matter.


12 posted on 05/07/2019 3:10:16 PM PDT by marajade (Skywalker)
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To: marron

I would love to see Trump pardon everyone, including Cohen ( for Russia Collusion Investigation ‘process’ crimes)

Even Manafort- they looked at this stuff he is accused of 8 years ago and declined to prosecute, and the usual punishment is a fine.

And they’ve kept the guy in solitary practically for a year now...


13 posted on 05/07/2019 3:10:50 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Aram Roston, "journalist".

He's Resistance. Gotta love Twitter, where you can find out these things in MINUTES.

14 posted on 05/07/2019 3:11:52 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: marajade

Absolutely.

Just not nice in the blab and embarrass role.


15 posted on 05/07/2019 3:12:16 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: yesthatjallen

Just when I think we know everything something else is revealed.
Every day another shoe drops. How many shoes are there?
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Troll comment.
Troll thread.
Noob troll.


16 posted on 05/07/2019 3:12:39 PM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: yesthatjallen

So, now we know. At root, Cohen is just another porn lawyer.


17 posted on 05/07/2019 3:12:49 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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If true, lawyer criminally reveals client information. If untrue, lawyer slanders someone.

Either way, lawyer is bad.
18 posted on 05/07/2019 3:13:09 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: yesthatjallen

The Reuters article in its entirety says absolutely nothing.

It mentions people familiar with Cohen’s thinking but no names and of course we have the now famous anonymous sources, two of them.


19 posted on 05/07/2019 3:13:41 PM PDT by billyboy15
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To: yesthatjallen

20 posted on 05/07/2019 3:14:04 PM PDT by plain talk
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