One, if you're telling people how to live via religion or other, then breaking all the same rules you and claim to follow/espouse, you deserve to go down in flames hard, so zero sympathy for Jerry Falwell Jr, or similar. Two, my empathy for the pool boy is pretty low here, but he seems like a naive kid who got in way over his head, but he didn't exactly suffer from the arrangement either. There's an amazing attractive force that such creatures like Arnold, Cohen, etc all seem to find each other, like cancer cells.
But, 60 minutes does give some insight into the truly ugly world of back deal politics and "favors" done in that world. Obviously 60 mins wants to pain Trump in the worst possible light, but Trump obviously knows how the game works, and has navigated that world for a long time. Zero proof Trump was aware of what Cohen was trying to do for himself vs what he told Trump. But, all the power brokers, be it Obama, Bush, or Trump, will make sure there's plausible deniability built in. Did Trump know about all that?
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