Michael Cohen explained how Trump dished out annual bonuses around the office — and how he reacted having his bonus cut by two-thirds in 2016.
“I used quite a few expletives,” Cohen said recalling a conversation with Allen Weisselberg about his skinny bonus.
Cohen said he used “colorful language about how truly pissed off and angry I was.”
Trump would have Rhona Graff, his personal assistant, walk around the office and give employees a Christmas card signed by Trump and others, Cohen testified — explaining that inside the card would be a check for the bonus that year.
“Rhona came and delivered the envelope and the Christmas card,” Cohen said about the 2016 year.
Cohen said he was “angry – beyond angry. Cut my bonus by two-thirds.”
He said he was personally insulted by Trump cutting his bonus after he laid out “$130,000 on his behalf to protect him.”
“I was truly insulted, personally hurt. I didn’t understand it, made no sense, after all I had gone through – the campaign, things at the Trump Organization,” Cohen testified.
“Laying out 130K on his behalf to protect him – it was insulting the gratitude shown back to me was to cut a bonus by two-thirds.”
Trump took a few scratches to his neck during Cohen’s testimony.
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