George Will is a Pulitzer-prize winning conservative columnist who is one of the most respected journalists in America. Over a decades-long career he has established himself as a leader of conservative thought, but now he is urging people to vote for Democrats. Â
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In his latest criticism of the president, coming after CNN played the audio of a recorded conversation between Donald Trump and Michael Cohen, Will said that “Donald Trump is a seedy man and a low-life from Queens.â€
Will appeared Tuesday evening on MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell and said that the newly released audio recording of the president and his former lawyer discussing a payment tied to a former Playboy model shows that “I’m hearing redundant evidence that Mr. Trump is a seedy man whose incontinent sexual appetite gets him into seedy women.â€
CNN obtained and aired audio on Tuesday of a secretly recorded conversation between Trump and his former personal attorney Michael Cohen openly and frankly talking about purchasing legal rights to Playboy model Karen McDougal’s personal story about her sexual relationship with Trump.
Trump campaign personnel including the president have always denied any knowledge of the deal between McDougal and the publisher of the National Enquirer (American Media Inc.) which has admitted to buying legal rights to her story. They spent $150,000 for the story, not to publish it but to bury it, and they never ran the piece. The former Playboy Playmate of the Year sued American Media to get back rights to her story, and they reached an out of court settlement several months ago.
“At the end of the day we have good decent Americans listening to not John Quincy Adams or Roosevelt or Eisenhower, but listening to this low-life from Queens talking about paying off his low-lives from Playboy magazine,†Will said on Tuesday’s MSNBC show.
He added that he doesn’t believe that Americans are angry over Trump, but are “embarrassed†and “sad†over the state of the country. “And I think at the end of the day embarrassment and sadness are more explosive than anger,†Will added.
The conservative columnist has been highly critical of Trump, announcing in 2016 that he was leaving the Republican Party. He recently urged Americans to vote Republicans out of office in the upcoming 2018 midterms.
Donald Trump posted a tweet on Wednesday morning addressing the tape controversy in typically bizarre and incomprehensible fashion. He wrote:
“What kind of a lawyer would tape a client? So sad! Is this a first, never heard of it before? Why was the tape so abruptly terminated (cut) while I was presumably saying positive things? I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are taped – can this be so? Too bad!â€
What kind of a lawyer would tape a client? So sad! Is this a first, never heard of it before? Why was the tape so abruptly terminated (cut) while I was presumably saying positive things? I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are taped – can this be so? Too bad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2018
The truth is that Michael Cohen and Donald Trump are both New York City thugs and “low lifes.†It’s fascinating that the public finally gets to hear the audio recording of the two of them discussing some criminal deal, which is no doubt just one of many.
As more recordings are made public, and as more evidence comes to light of Cohen’s and Trump’s shady (and criminal) dealings there is no question that George Will’s conclusion that Trump is a “seedy man†and a “low life†will be confirmed many times over.
I am a lifelong Democrat with a passion for social justice and progressive issues. I have degrees in writing, economics and law from the University of Iowa.
