Michael Cohen Hired Firm to Make @WomenForCohen Account That Called Him ‘Pit Bull,’ ‘Sex Symbol’: Report
A new report indicates that President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen hired an IT firm once to manipulate online polls to make his boss look better. More interestingly, however, it seems Cohen also used the same firm to create a fan account that seems to only exist for the sake of boosting his personal profile.
Wall Street Journal reports that years, Cohen hired RedFinch Solutions to rig online polls for CNBC and the Drudge Report. The goal was to put Trump on lists for America’s top business leaders and most viable possibilities as a potential Republican candidate for the 2016 election.
Cohen promised to pay RedFinch owner John Gauger $50,000 for his services, even though the report suggests neither endeavor was particularly successful. Apparently, though, Gauger got stiffed while the Trump Organization gave Cohen a complete $50,000 reimbursement for the “tech services” rendered.
“In his Trump Organization office, Mr. Cohen surprised the man, John Gauger, by giving him a blue Walmart bag containing between $12,000 and $13,000 in cash and, randomly, a boxing glove that Mr. Cohen said had been worn by a Brazilian mixed-martial arts fighter, Mr. Gauger said.”
It gets weirder.
Gauger was also asked to make @WomenForCohen, a Twitter account that can only be described as a strange pro-Trump vanity project that hasn’t tweeted anything since 2016. The page’s bio lavishes praise on Cohen, calling him “Strong, pit bull, sex symbol, no nonsense, business oriented, and ready to make a difference!”
UPDATE – 9:14 a.m. ET: Cohen is saying the story is true.
As for the @WSJ article on poll rigging, what I did was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of @realDonaldTrump @POTUS. I truly regret my blind loyalty to a man who doesn’t deserve it.
— Michael Cohen (@MichaelCohen212) January 17, 2019
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