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For Cohen, no target was too big. Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly put tough questions to Trump at a Republican presidential debate. Cohen later retweeted someone who had written, “we can gut her.”
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When I reached out to campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks about the claim in the book, I got an angry call from Cohen in return.
His first tactic was to try to persuade me not to run the story but he did so by falsely claiming that spousal rape was not a crime.
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