'Beauty is in the eye of beholder': Trump Organization exec echoes claim that Donald Trump's accusers aren't pretty enough to assault
"Beauty is in the eye of beholder ... these aren't even women he'd be attracted to," Cohen said of Trump in a CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday.
That line follows a recurring argument Trump has been making on the campaign trail - that some of the women who accused him of groping, kissing, and manhandling them were not attractive and therefore are not telling the truth.
"Look at her - look at her words," the Manhattan businessman said at a rally in West Palm Beach, Florida last week. "I don't think so."
Cohen, who described himself as a registered Democrat, attempted to give credence to the "beauty" argument: "I think what Mr. Trump is really trying to say is that they're not somebody that he would be attracted to, and therefore, the whole thing is nonsense. "
For his part, Cohen said this about the beauty argument: "I don't think it's relevant to the conversation at all."
Here's more from Cohen:
Earlier on Tuesday, People magazine revealed that it found six women who say they can corroborate accusations from journalist, Natasha Stoynoff. Stoynoff published her accusations in an essay for the magazine last week following the release of a 2005 recording in which Trump bragged about groping women.
The latest dust-up is one of many for the Trump campaign and its surrogates of late, who have amplified their claims that the election, by way of national media outlets and publications, is being "rigged" in favor of his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.
The Trump campaign has offered no evidence to support those claims.