Behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Masterful Interrogation Of Michael Cohen, page-20

" Brain dead" would be an apt description of those who cherry pick the lead-in question, but fail to include the follow-up.



Ocasio-Cortez: "Do you know -- to your knowledge, was the president interested in reducing his local real estate bills, tax bills?"

Cohen: "Yes."

Ocasio-Cortez: "And how do you do that?"

Cohen: "What you do is you deflate the value of the asset and then you put in a request to the tax department for a deduction."

Ocasio-Cortez:

‘To your knowledge did the president ever provide inflated assets to an insurance company?

Cohen:  "Yes"

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