Michael Cohen Reportedly Paid Someone to Make a Fake “Women for Cohen” Fan Account on Twitter

Luke Darby
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen paid thousands of dollars to rig campaign polls and have a fake account tweet about how “sexy” he is.

Few of the president's accomplices have had a sadder time than Michael Cohen, the former lawyer who seems to have modeled his career on one-off characters from The Sopranos. He's been sentenced to three years in jail, and fresh humiliations seem to emerge weekly. On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal published an embarrassing new doozy that takes the cake.

Cohen was behind a 2015 payment to John Gauger, the head of RedFinch Solutions LLC and the CIO for Liberty University. That money was supposed to go toward two online polls that would, wrongly, show Donald Trump leading his opponents. According to the Journal, Gauger received about $12,000 in cash in a blue Walmart bag—and since this is the world of Donald Trump, that was only a partial payment and Gauger never received the rest.

The real kicker is one extra thing that Cohen requested from Gauger: that he make Cohen a fake fan account on Twitter. And Gauger came through, creating @WomenForCohen, described in its bio as "Women who love and support Michael Cohen. Strong, pit bull, sex symbol, no nonsense, business oriented, and ready to make a difference!" The account was pretty active until the end of 2016, and apart from constantly retweeting Fox News, it's filled with fawning gems:

It's really hard to articulate just how sad this is. While Cohen is pretty widely known now, mostly for his payments to Stormy Daniels, that wasn't the case back in 2015. Fan accounts for the lawyers of candidates in a presidential primary are...pretty rare? Like maybe nonexistent? Can anyone name a lawyer with whom Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio has worked? And why not just run it yourself instead of leaving a paper trail?

In response, Cohen admitted that he was behind the attempts to rig polls, but places the blame for it on his boss at the time, Trump, saying:

"As for the @WSJ article on poll rigging, what I did was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of @realDonaldTrump @POTUS. I truly regret my blind loyalty to a man who doesn’t deserve it."

No doubt it was hugely important to Donald Trump that the world believe there were throngs of women out there incredibly thirsty for his sexy, pit bull sex symbol.