The Fixer’s Tool Box, Weaponized

We know that a key, maybe the key to Michael Cohen’s job for Donald Trump was making problems go away, most especially making women who had stories to tell – whether consensual sexual encounters or abuse – stay silent. Yesterday I suggested the possibility that this defensive capacity could very easily be weaponized against others. When you consider it, it’s frankly hard to imagine it wouldn’t be. Cohen had close relationships with lawyers for clients with damaging revelations. He had an equally close relationship with The National Enquirer, which is in the business of damaging revelations but seemed willing to subordinate that business to its transactional relationship with Donald Trump.