Cohen Explains How Trump Talks To His Subordinates In Code
On Morning Joe, Garrett Haake talked about a standout portion of yesterday's Cohen hearing when Rep. Justin Amash asked about how Trump gets subordinates to follow his wishes:
COHEN: That's how he speaks. he doesn't give you questions, he doesn't give you orders. he speaks in code. I understand his code because I've been around him for a decade.
AMASH: And it's your understanding that others around him understand his code, right?
COHEN: Yes.
"He asked the most significant question yesterday and the one that followed," Haake said.
"It gets to the idea of how Donald Trump directs his people. A few weeks able we were all talking about this blockbuster piece in Buzzfeed that suggested that the president told Michael Cohen to lie, that he ordered his subordinates to lie, and the special counsel came in and disputed that. Amash's question may, and I emphasize, may get to the heart of that, that President Trump doesn't order anybody to do anything, that it's the culture around him that leads people to do these things. It could be the connective tissue. And his next question was the seminal question about these hearings.