Michael Cohen Claims Trump Is Going to Flip on His Own Family: ‘Don’t Take Me, Take Melania!’
Michael Cohen appeared on MSNBC Wednesday to give an interesting take on the investigations surrounding Donald Trump. The former Trump personal attorney and convicted felon was asked by Joy Reid for his view on the news that the New York Attorney General has been looking into the tax records of Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg.
According to one report, “Prosecutors are seeking to find leverage that could sway Weisselberg into cooperating with authorities.”
During the segment, Cohen alleged the Trump Organization used lies and gimmicks to fudge the company’s tax returns, and that “every single penny in and every penny out went through Allen Weisselberg’s desk and then [was] reported before and after to Donald J. Trump.”
Cohen then recommended that Trump’s associates and even members of Trump’s family should get their own lawyers because Trump would flip on them given the chance.
“Everyone keeps talking about oh Rudy, Rudy, Rudy,” said Cohen. “What did we get off his electronics [in the FBI search of his home]? What are they going to get now from the Trump Organization? How are they going to get Weisselberg to flip?”
He then took Reid by surprise by claiming, “I think Donald Trump is going to flip on all of them. What do you think about that? Including his children.”
Cohen elaborated:
I really believe that Donald Trump cares for only himself, and he realizes that his goose is cooked. So when he turns around and he gets questioned about what you were just asking about – inflation – “It wasn’t me. It was Allen! It was my accountant. It was the appraiser.”
It’s never Donald. See, this is the problem. It’s never, ever Donald Trump. It’s always somebody else. It wasn’t Donald Trump who had the affair. It wasn’t Donald Trump who directed me to make the payments to Stormy Daniels. It wasn’t Donald Trump who got the benefit of the relationship and the actions. It was Michael Cohen. And I’m the bad guy into it. Why? Because I didn’t take the fall.
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What’s going to happen when all of a sudden they turn around and start asking him about his tax returns or about the devaluation of the assets or the way that he took deductions?
‘I don’t do my taxes. It’s my accountant.’ So he’s going to turn on his accountant and point the finger. He’s going to say ‘Don Jr. handled that, Ivanka handled that. Melania. Don’t take me. Take Melania!’ He’s going to tell them to take everyone except for himself.
Watch above via MSNBC
