Aghast how a U.S. citizen can be convicted of a crime and still be president, Cohen was forced to explain to Adams and the Australian audience that the U.S. Constitution doesn't forbid someone from serving as president from jail.
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"So, therefore, the White House will become whatever federal correctional institution that he is currently remanded to," explained Cohen. "Because our founding fathers never contemplated a scenario — anything even remotely close to something like this."
The shocked reporter wondered what it is that makes Americans look past Trump's flaws. Cohen explained, "He's a cult leader. He does want to make himself into a king."
It isn't the first time Cohen has used the description for Trump. Not long after Cohen was thrown under the bus, he explained to his friend Donny Deutsch that he felt he got caught up. Former FBI Director James Comey described Trump as a crime boss. Former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi said something similar.
"He also possessed a cult-like hold over his supporters, some of them demonstrably unhinged and willing to do anything to please or protect the President," Cohen wrote in his book "Disloyal."
"I knew how committed these fanatics were because I’d been one of them: an acolyte obsessed with Donald J. Trump, a demented follower willing to do anything for him, including, as I vowed once to a reporter, to take a bullet," he explained.
Steven Hassan, the author of “The Cult of Trump,” explained to Sean Illing of Vox that former cultists see the same similarities.
“[What] really made me think of Trump as a cult was the way the groups who supported him were behaving, especially religious groups who believed that God had chosen Trump or was using Trump. There are actual pro-Trump religious groups, like the New Apostolic Reformation, whose leaders were saying, ‘We’re of God. The rest of the world is of Satan, and we need to follow our chosen leaders who are connected to God,'” Hassan said. “There was this blind-faith aspect to the whole thing and an unwillingness to look at any inconvenient facts. That’s all very cult-like.”
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Adams recalled being at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as "frightening."
"How can anyone enjoy an attack on the 'People's House?'" Cohen asked. "And the answer is, because they were doing it in his name. They were carrying the Trump 2020 flag, and they were screaming and attacking people in his honor.
He went on to say that it's a little bit of "both" that Trump is nuts or his followers are crazy but drinking the Kool-Aid.
"I think Donald Trump has become the worst version of himself imaginable, and that includes losing it," Cohen explained. "The things that he is saying, the racist, sexist, misogynistic, the xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic rant that this man is spewing on a day-to-day basis — the divisiveness that he's creating in this country is only being parroted by his MAGA supporters. So, can you separate their insanity from Donald Trump's insanity? And the answer is no."
Adams shows a clip of Trump playing to such a crowd last week.
"I'm being indicted for you," Trump tells his audience at a recent New Hampshire rally. "And, never forget, they're trying to take away my freedom because I will never let them take away your freedom."
Cohen continued explaining that his biggest fear is that if Trump is reelected in 2024, "the world will absolutely go haywire."
"You'll immediately see China invade Taiwan. You'll see wars everywhere. You'll begin to see the warlords grabbing power and fighting within one another," he said. "Donald Trump has no problem with creating World War III if it's in his name, just like the kings throughout history."
He thinks dictators like Vladimir Putin are popping champagne each time they see Trump on television.
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