- Trump’s former ‘fixer’ furiously confronted a woman tearing down the fliers
- She responded by bringing up his legal troubles, saying ‘you should be in jail’
- It is the latest of a number of hostile exchanges over Israeli hostage fliers
- Do you know this woman? Email [email protected]
Donald Trump’s former ‘fixer’ Michael Cohen confronted a woman tearing down missing person fliers of Israeli hostages in a furious exchange.
The former attorney, 57, squared off with the woman on Manhattan’s Upper East Side on Friday, snapping at her: ‘What’s wrong with you?’
The woman, dressed in a beige overcoat and sunglasses, responded by bringing up Cohen’s legal troubles, saying: ‘This is illegal. Turn it on yourself, freak. You should be in jail.’
It comes as a number of hostile interactions have sprung up across America of people ripping down hostage fliers in the wake of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
As the clash with Cohen continued, the woman slated his past conviction before another passerby appeared to jump to his defense.
When the woman repeats ‘you should be in jail’, the onlooker quickly jumped in: ‘No you shouldn’t… you served your time and thank god.’
‘You’re causing our government a lot of money because you’re illegal,’ the woman continued. ‘You’re a liar.’
When Cohen, whose father was a holocaust survivor, demanded to know the woman’s name, she appeared to confuse him with hedge fund billionaire and Mets owner Steve Cohen in her sarcastic response.
‘Steve Cohen and I should be back in jail because I’m a piece of s***’ she said.
Following the fiery interaction, Cohen told the New York Post he was trying to hold the woman accountable for her decision.
‘While walking on Park Avenue at the corner of 61st street, I was shocked to see this racist, anti-Semitic curmudgeon tearing the face off the missing-child poster and laughing about it,’ he said.
‘There is no place for people like her in civilized society.’
In a follow up tweet, he quipped that the ‘piece of s***’ should be added to the ‘Wall of Shame’, and repeated his call to identify her.
‘DM me or post so we can expose her racist, anti-Semitic actions to her employer, and colleagues. Accountability!’ he added.
It comes as two 18-year-old New Yorkers were arrested this week for allegedly tearing down kidnapped hostage posters.
Charlotte Wimer and Gray Segal were snared for allegedly removing posters on a wall outside a private property in Manhattan’s Gramercy Park.
The posters were of 240 Israeli children and adults kidnapped by the terrorist group since the October 7 assault on Israel. NYPD officials have charged both suspects with criminal mischief.
And last month another NYU student admitted to tearing down posters in the Big Apple, apologizing and blaming her antics on ‘misplaced anger.’
Yazmeen Deyhimi, a junior at NYU who once worked for the Anti-Defamation League and a self-acclaimed ‘activist,’ confessed to tearing down the flyers of hostages that were plastered outside NYU’s Tisch Hall.
In a since-deleted Instagram post, Deyhimi ‘apologized,’ offering a bizarre explanation for the disgraceful act – claiming she was having a rough time finding her place as a ‘biracial brown woman’ during these ‘highly volatile’ times.
‘I have found it increasingly difficult to know my place as a biracial brown woman, especially during these highly volatile times,’ Deyhimi shared.
‘I have felt more and more frustrated about the time we currently find ourselves in, and that misplaced anger into actions that are not an accurate representation of who I am as a person.’
‘In this age of social media and digital footprint, these moments of anger are selfish and self-absorbed, and not reflective of who I am as a person or who my family had raised me to be.’
Emily Foster is a globe-trotting journalist based in the UK. Her articles offer readers a global perspective on international events, exploring complex geopolitical issues and providing a nuanced view of the world’s most pressing challenges.
