The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Russian interference in the 2016 election is 966 pages long, so it’s understandable that almost no one has read it, and that it took weeks for this little gem to surface out of the report’s totality.
Courtesy of John Gruber’s “Daring Fireball” blog: A Tough Way To Make a Living
Footnote 1823 from the report has Michael Cohen speaking under oath to committee investigators, describing a night on the town of Las Vegas in 2013 with Trump, and a specific club that was included:
“It’s a club that puts on shows, and you never really know what the show is going to be. In this specific case they brought out a young man who was in a leotard body suit, who, to me, I would diagnose him as a thalidomide baby. And he was blind as well, but he sang like Pavarotti. And while he was singing — I forget the song, it was like a ‘God Bless America’-type song — there was a woman who was in a thong bikini, who was large, performing sex acts on him while he was singing. Interesting, because I was with Mr. Trump at the time. It was not really a place I expected to be with him at. He looked over to me when he was finished, and I’ll never forget this, he looked me right in the face. He goes, ‘That’s a tough way to make a living.’”
The highlight was mine, It’s worth noting that the evening in Las Vegas included Emin Agalarov, the Russian pop star connected with the Miss Universe pageant, who was instrumental in setting up the famous 2016 meeting with the Russian lawyer at Trump Tower. Yes, the same meeting that got so much press coverage as part of the Mueller investigation.
I mean, I don’t even want to talk about the weird “whatever it was” performance on that stage in Las Vegas that Cohen described under oath.
