Michael Cohen suggests Trump’s mounting legal fees make him ‘thoroughly compromised’: ‘He is for sale’

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Michael Cohen suggests Trump’s mounting legal fees make him ‘thoroughly compromised’: ‘He is for sale’ - Lemmy.World

Michael Cohen — who long served as former President Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer — warned Sunday of the potential risk of sending Trump back to the White House with mounting legal fees and financial liabilities. “We need to be very careful about him as a potential president because he is for sale,” Cohen, now an outspoken critic of the former president, said in an interview on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” on Sunday. “He needs to figure out where he is going to raise $500-plus million over a short period of time,” Cohen continued.

This is exactly the type of thing that will cost you your security clearance, for a good reason.
So few people in the Trump Whitehouse could pass a background check. The solution was to suspend background checks. Clearance was just given out.
Trump’s disdain for intelligence rules foretold his indictment

Former officials and experts see the criminal indictment against the former president as the logical extension of his repeated, intentional mishandling of classified information while in office.

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Clearance, Clarance.