(05-20-2019 11:24 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(12-09-2016 06:22 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(12-09-2016 05:59 PM)JustAnotherAustinOwl Wrote:  This one seems relevant to the discussion:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...fa0f485028

Over/under on # of people asking how that is any different than calling out a CEO?
I think another telling story about the influence he has on people based on his Twitter use and style of attack is what happened to Megyn Kelly. I heard this story on NPR a few weeks ago, terrifying, but luckily she has the means to afford protection.

Quote:It was my year of guards and guns — you know, thanks to Trump. I was under security threat for most of the nine months he was really coming after me. I had strange people showing up at my house. I had strange people casing my house. I had my children looking out the windows afraid. ... Every time he would come after me, he would release — as I describe in the book — a torrent of nastiness in my life, and I had to sort of just be steady at the helm, because I was going to cover this race come hell or high water.
By far, the tweet that bothered me the most was that of Trump's top lawyer, Michael Cohen, who's a senior executive with the Trump organization. When things were at a fever pitch after that first debate, Michael Cohen retweeted somebody saying, "Let's gut her." That one to me was the most disturbing and visceral. ...

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/15/502042198/...-and-ailes

Michael Cohen was not Trump's top lawyer. He was a "fixer," something that every serious real estate developer needs. We've got somebody holding up the environmental approvals, go fix it, don't tell us what you did, and send us a bill.

Those people tend to be sleazy characters. They have to be to do their job. They exist primarily to give the boss deniability.