{"id":177900,"date":"2019-05-09T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/09\/do-not-share-the-pix-with-me\/"},"modified":"2019-05-09T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T00:36:00","slug":"do-not-share-the-pix-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/09\/do-not-share-the-pix-with-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Share the Pix With Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/TMipu.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/TMipu.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>It turns out that Trump&#8217;s former fixer Michael Cohen did similar work for other people.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that Cohen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-politics-falwell-exclusive\/exclusive-trump-fixer-cohen-says-he-helped-falwell-handle-racy-photos-idUSKCN1SD2JG\">helped Jerry Falwell, Jr. acquire and destroy &#8220;embarrassing&#8221; photographs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am not surprised that such photographs exist, but I am studiously avoiding any descriptions of said evidence.<\/p>\n<p>That which is seen cannot be unseen:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Months before evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr.\u2019s game-changing presidential endorsement of Donald Trump in 2016, Falwell asked Trump fixer Michael Cohen for a personal favor, Cohen said in a recorded conversation reviewed by Reuters.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Falwell, president of Liberty University, one of the world\u2019s largest Christian universities, said someone had come into possession of what Cohen described as racy \u201cpersonal\u201d photographs \u2014 the sort that would typically be kept \u201cbetween husband and wife,\u201d Cohen said in the taped conversation.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">According to a source familiar with Cohen\u2019s thinking, the person who possessed the photos destroyed them after Cohen intervened on the Falwells\u2019 behalf.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The Falwells, through a lawyer, declined to comment for this article. <\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The Falwells wanted to keep \u201ca bunch of photographs, personal photographs\u201d from becoming public, Cohen told <span style=\"color: black;\">[Comedian Tom]<\/span> Arnold. \u201cI actually have one of the photos,\u201d he said, without going into specifics. \u201cIt\u2019s terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cohen would later prove successful in another matter involving Falwell, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Cohen helped persuade Falwell to issue his endorsement of Trump\u2019s presidential candidacy at a critical moment, they said: just before the Iowa caucuses. Falwell subsequently barnstormed with Trump and vouched for the candidate\u2019s Christian virtues. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Trump&#8217;s former fixer Michael Cohen did similar work for other people. It turns out that Cohen helped Jerry Falwell, Jr. acquire and destroy &#8220;embarrassing&#8221; photographs. I am not surprised that such photographs exist, but I am studiously avoiding any descriptions of said evidence. That which is seen cannot be unseen: Months &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[387,380,486],"class_list":["post-177900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-hypocrisy","tag-religion","tag-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}