Michael Cohen said after Donald Trump won the 2016 election, incoming chief of staff Reince Priebus offered him the job of assistant White House counsel, Politico reports.
Cohen said he was offended that he was not considered to be chief of staff — a feeling he said was “solely about ego.”
Instead, Politico reports: “In December 2016, Cohen discovered that his annual bonus had been cut by two-thirds, and he became enraged, he testified.
Trump still hadn’t reimbursed Cohen for the Stormy Daniels payment, and Cohen was ‘beyond angry’ to find Trump had also reduced his bonus.”