Lanny Davis: Michael Cohen ‘Would Never Accept a Pardon’ from ‘A Dangerous Person in the Oval Office’

If the latest reporting from CNN is any indication, a pardon for Michael Cohen — President Donald Trump‘s longtime lawyer and fixer — is pretty much out of the question, given that the Commander-in-Chief has taken to calling his former attorney a “rat.” But Cohen, through his lawyer, is now saying he wouldn’t even take a pardon — in the unlikely event it were offered.

Appearing on NPR’s Morning Edition Wednesday, Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis said his client would give back any get out of jail free card offered by the White House. And just to seal the deal, Davis blasted away at the president, on his client’s behalf.

I know that Mr. Cohen would never accept a pardon from a man that he considers to be both corrupt, and a dangerous person in the Oval Office. And he has flatly authorized me to say that under no circumstances would he accept a pardon from Mr. Trum — who uses the pardon power in a way that no president in American history has ever used a pardon, to relieve people of guilt who committed crimes who are political cronies of his, like the sheriff in Arizona [Joe Arpaio] who defied a court order, was clearly guilty, and was given a pardon. Mr. Cohen is not interested in being dirtied by a pardon from such a man.

Listen above, via NPR.

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