Micheal Cohen Reveals He’s Leaving the Country if Trump Wins: ‘I Have No Choice’
Former President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, told MSNBC that he will have “no choice” but to leave the U.S. if his old boss wins the election, fearing retribution.
Cohen delivered key testimony in the criminal case against Trump over his alleged role in falsifying business documents to pay hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels so that damaging stories about him would not make headlines ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Cohen made the payments on Trump’s behalf. He completed a three-year sentence in November 2021 for campaign finance fraud and lying to Congress.
Appearing on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House on Tuesday, Cohen told host Nicole Wallace that Trump had become “the absolute worse version of himself imaginable.”
Attacking Trump and running mate Senator JD Vance (R-OH), as well as the campaign’s associates, Cohen said that Trump “has surrounded himself from the worst of the worst imaginable.”
He continued: “The whole group of them. They are a whole group of racist and sexist. We’re know their misogynistic and homophobic and islamophobia and transphobic and anti-semitic. And one of them may not be all those, but each and every one of them has Donald’s ear and we used to say at the Trump org: ‘The last guy in the ear controls the brain.’ And that is why he acts out with ridiculous comments and making stupid, stupid remarks.”
The host then asked Cohen what would happen if Trump won the upcoming presidential election. The ex-lawyer was blunt: “I’m out of here.”
He continued: “I’m working on a foreign passport with a completely different name. I don’t know how it is 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 I don’t think… you saw the president of the MSNBC, General [Mark] Milley, Liz Cheney, how many people he has turned around and said that ‘these are people that I intend to go after if I have the ability to.’
He added: “And the worst is the Supreme Court’s recent decision that gave him immunity, presidential immunity. Now he thinks it is: ‘Not only can I do whatever I want. But I can’t even be prosecuted.’ It’s a get-out-of-jail-free card solely for the president.”
Wallace asked: “So you’re out of here. Would you leave the country?”
“I have no choice,” Cohen said.
Watch above on MSNBC.
