From Facebook Lynne Patton
As someone who considered #MichaelCohen one of my very best friends for the past 10+ years - virtually inseparable during our tenure at the Trump Organization (and even prior) having credited him in countless interviews for personally introducing me to the Trump family - leading to my subsequent employment therein, and arguably, my current job - the only word that truly comes to mind this week is sad.
I am sad that Michael has elected to leverage his own personal illegal activities into nothing more than political theater this week with the sole partisan purpose of embarrassing a sitting President with unfounded personal and/or professional gossip.
I am sad that Michael would turn his back on a man to whom he has repeatedly said he owes everything in the hope of a reduced prison sentence.
Lastly, I am sad for myself.
Sad that I have wasted so much time and energy caring, supporting and loving a man I now realize I truly never knew.
If Michael Cohen had ANYTHING of substance to offer against the President of the United States, Mueller would not have rejected his plea for leniency and he would not be going to jail.
Period.
But above all, I am sad that Michael would - once again, on a world stage - levy unsubstantiated claims - particularly those of bigotry and racism - against a man who has single-handedly helped raise five of the most unbiased and open-minded children I’ve ever known. Four of whom I count among my very best friends, to date.
I stated this in my viral video back in 2015 and I’ll say it again:
As the daughter of a man born in Birmingham, Alabama, there is no amount of money in the world that would make me work for a man who I thought - or even suspected - harbored bigoted ideologies.
People who have known this man far less than I have have been offered over 7-figures to write best-selling works of fiction, yet the thought has never crossed my mind.
So, unlike others, I truly mean it when I say there is no amount of money in the world to make me either work for (nor sell-out) this family. Zero.
The bottom line is that, much like Omarosa Manigault Newman, it does not take someone 15 years to figure out someone is a racist.
Unless, of course, they’re not one. ?? |
