President Donald Trump’s estranged former lawyer is acknowledging that he paid a technology company to rig Trump’s standing in two online polls.
Michael Cohen tweeted Thursday that “what I did was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of” Trump.
Technology company owner John Gauger told The Wall Street Journal that Cohen promised him $50,000 for work including using computers to enter fake votes for Trump in a 2014 CNBC & a DrudgeReport poll asking people to identify top business leaders and a 2015 poll of potential presidential candidates. Gauger says Cohen paid him about a quarter of the money in cash, then stiffed him on the rest.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Cohen handed Gauger a Walmart bag, blue, containing somewhere over $12,000 in cash and a boxing glove that Michael Cohen, then Trump’s personal attorney, claimed had been owned by a Brazilian fighter.
The Trump Organization later paid a $50,000 reimbursement to Cohen.
The IT firm doesn’t appear to have been particularly good at the task. Cohen reportedly asked for its help in a January 2014’s CNBC poll to name the country’s top business leaders. RedFinch Solutions founder John Gauger reportedly wrote a computer script to repeatedly vote for Trump—but was still unable to get him into the top 100 candidates.
Cohen did not deny the WSJ’s report, but disputed that what he did pay Gauger was in cash. “All monies paid to Mr. Gauger were by check,” he said.
It didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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
(AP / YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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such lies
Something doesn’t make sense
If trump didn’t make it to the top 100 how was it rigged?
CNN rigged polls for Hillary. Not a bombshell.
So a convicted liar says he was rigging rigged fake polls. Denies paying cash, only by check. Simultaneously, Dems paid for fake dossier so that corrupt FBI can obtain fake FISA warrants, rigged voting wherever they could, Hillary colluded with Russians, Russians gave her Fraudation $$$ 500 g’s,Hillary colluded with Holt to obtain debate questions, and DNC rigged its own polls and convention to steal Bernie delegates..
Next.. Let’s see what tomorrow brings..
We don’t even know the behind- the- scenes garbage & $$$ to bring down our prez..
One of the few truths the degenerate lying adulterer told, “this election is rigged”! At some point we will find out just how rigged it was.
“1”- trump lost the popular vote and won the electoral college by just 70,000
Wow! I’m shocked! Till now I ALWAYS believed the polls! Now due to reliable inside info from a LAWYER, and an officially convicted one at that, I don’t think I can ever believe them again.
Great reporting by US [fake]News.
umm what polls? like 95% of the polls all had trump losing to hillary…
YWN really has to vet out these AP articles. Either they have an agenda, like shock value, or just ignorant. It’s probably 2 and 3.
rt Trump won the important states.
95%? I remember it being 100% of the polls.
Meanwhile another Kavanope accuser comes out and says she liked for the sake of The Party. And that is not news.
Pure narishkeit. Has nothing to do with anything. Nothing to do with mueller nothing to do with the wall nothing to do with anything
The polls? So what!
Pretty bad job at it,too!
He rigged the polls? The ones showing Trump behind most of the time?
I find this interesting because the lamestream media does the same and even worse.
Rigging polls is not illegal, and given the nature of polling, arguably they are all rigged one way or another.
Which polls? I did not se one poll that had Trump favored. Such a non-news story.