Michael Cohen doesn’t sleep much. As Donald Trump’s right-hand man, there’s no time to do so at the moment. In his own words, as Trump’s Special Counsel.
It cannot be an easy environment to work in, so has he ever considered quitting? “Never,” he says.
“Over the years I have been offered very lucrative employment opportunities, which I summarily dismissed. To those of us who are close to Mr Trump, he is more than our boss. He is our patriarch.”
Er.. what?
For those who don’t know, a “patriarch” comes from the Latin “pater” meaning “father, and “arch” meaning “ruler,” It also goes with the strange adulation and near-worship that we’ve seen Trump’s supporters lavish over the GOP front-runner.
Donald Trump’s regular praise for tyrannical authoritarian governments and dictators has come under scrutiny following his laudatory comments about dictator Saddam Hussein, Vladimir Putin, Muammar Gaddafi, etc.
“This follows a disturbing trend of Trump relating to the way brutal tyrants executed policy in their countries. I do think that there’s something dark about Trump’s view of the world,” said Republican strategist Tim Miller, a former Jeb Bush aid.“When a person running for president continually compliments brutal, undemocratic dictators and their methods, I think it’s fair to have some concerns that those are methods that they might be interested in deploying if necessary.”
Ivana Trump Trump reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed ... Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist,"