The liberal media often accuses former President Trump of endangering the lives of his various antagonists with his criticisms of them. The notion was that a deranged supporter might act out violently. So, it was shocking to hear Alicia Menendez, on Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, tee up Michael Cohen to say something that could endanger the life of a former president.
At the end of multiple segments in which he appeared, Menendez put it to Cohen:v"When you say you want peace, you say you'll never get peace so long as Donald Trump is here?"
Cohen agreed: "Yeah. I don't believe I ever will."
Menendez was paraphrasing what Cohen said to Nicolle Wallace on Friday:
I want peace. You can’t have peace when Donald Trump is around, because one of the things he talks about in many of his books, it’s a common theme, if you hit him, and that’s in his mind that he’s being hit, he needs to strike back at you 10 times harder. And, so long as the two of us exist on this planet at the same time, he will constantly seek to hurt me.
So, Cohen can't have peace so long as Trump was "around" and "exist[s] on this planet?" That can only be understood as Cohen saying that he won't have peace so long as Trump is alive.
Hey Alicia, in inviting Cohen to repeat his ominous belief, did the danger occur to you of some left-wing wacko taking it upon himself to do what it takes to give Cohen "peace?"
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC's The Weekend
6/1/24
8:31 am EDTALICIA MENENDEZ: I want to end now by talking about Donald Trump by talking about Michael Cohen. I want to take you back to 2019, and something that the late Representative Elijah Cummings said to you in a House Oversight Committee hearing. Take a listen.
ELIJAH CUMMINGS: I know that this has been hard. I know that you face a lot. I know that are worried about your family. But this is a part of your destiny. And hopefully, this portion of your destiny will lead to a better, a better, a better Michael Cohen, a better Donald Trump, a better United States of America, and a better world.
MENENDEZ: Oh, dear. Do you feel you are better Michael Cohen?
MICHAEL COHEN: [Sighs] I'm a different Michael Cohen then I was. Today -- those words hit me the same way now as it did back then. He's a special man.
I'll tell you, a lot of people don't know this, but that night, he called me after, not to talk about the hearing, just to ask me if I was okay. And I said to him, one day I will be. I don't know how long it's going to take, but one day I will be. I'm not there yet. I'm far from okay. But hopefully his words come to fruition one day.
MENENDEZ: When you say you want peace, you say you will never get peace as long as Donald Trump is here?
COHEN: Yeah. I don't believe I ever will.
