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In a strange twist of fate, President-elect Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, is now calling for New York judge Juan Merchan to completely dismiss the wild “hush money” case against Trump.
Cohen served as Trump’s personal attorney from 2006 to 2018. He later flipped on Trump, and has claimed for years that Trump is going to prison.
Cohen was the “star witness” and testified against Trump earlier this year in the criminal trial in Manhattan, as DA Alvin Bragg charged Trump with 34 counts of “falsifying business records” over a hush money payment Cohen made to adult film star Stormy Daniels for an alleged tryst in 2006. Trump has always denied Daniels claims of an affair. However, Trump was found “guilty” in the Manhattan trial, although his “sentencing” has repeatedly been delayed.
From The Vanity Fair:
In the weeks since his victory, the various charges against the president-elect from multiple indictments have all but dissipated. Special counsel Jack Smith, who oversaw the federal cases against Trump, plans to wind down his work and leave the Justice Department. The public appetite for continuation of any of the cases has largely disappeared. “End the Criminal Cases Against Trump,” read the headline of a recent New York Times guest essay.
Even Cohen—a veteran Trump antagonist, if no longer a central one—is now arguing for the hush-money case to be dismissed. On Tuesday, the Manhattan district attorney’s office proposed delaying Trump’s sentencing past his term ending in 2029. Cohen, the president-elect’s former fixer who arranged for the payment to Daniels and who was the prosecution’s star witness, wrote in an email to Vanity Fair that he would go a step further.
It would be “judicious and cautious,” Cohen wrote, for Justice Juan Merchan, the judge in the case, to accept the recommendation.
Nonetheless, Cohen said, “The American people have spoken and re-elected Donald Trump. Accordingly, I believe we must all acknowledge and respect the office of the Presidency and dismiss the case forthwith.”
Michael Cohen, Trump antagonist and the prosecution’s star witness, is calling for the president-elect’s hush money case to be dismissed.@danmadler reports: https://t.co/hAuLvETc3f
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) November 19, 2024
In a September 24 appearance on MSNBC’s ‘Deadline,’ Cohen dramatically announced that if Trump wins in November, “I’m outta here. I mean, I’m already working on a foreign passport with a completely different name.”
He even declared he’s leaving his family behind, saying, “I don’t know how it’s going to work, as far as dealing with my wife and my children. I certainly don’t want them moving to where I’m looking to go.”
But after Trump won the election, Cohen announced he’s not going anywhere.
Michael Cohen openly admitted he got a fake passport to “flee the country” if Trump won.
Falsifying government documents is a crime—how much dumber can this guy get?pic.twitter.com/drFFms8epY
— Dennis Michael Lynch (@TrustDML) November 20, 2024
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