Trump fixer Michael Cohen is ready for star turn against his old boss
- Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer-turned-enemy Michael Cohen made Stormy Daniels hush money payment at core of New York probe
- Cohen, who was sentenced to three years in prison in 2018 related to the payment, has met with prosecutors 20 times
Michael Cohen may be about to get the role he’s been auditioning for since 2018: witness for the prosecution against his old boss, former president Donald Trump.
If Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg proceeds with a case against Trump over a hush money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels, as widely expected, Cohen would be the state’s star witness.
It was Cohen, after all, who handled the damage control transaction just before the 2016 presidential election Trump won. And Cohen went to prison for it – implicating Trump in his guilty plea to federal charges.
“Nothing I’m saying now is new,” Cohen, 56, said in an interview. “The only difference is that this potential indictment will force the exposure of all of that information.”
Federal prosecutors ultimately decided not to act against Trump. The former president, who is running for a second term in 2024, has said that shows he is blameless, and has called all the cases facing him political vendettas.
Now Bragg appears to be on the verge of giving new life to the hush money case, with likely criminal charges such as falsifying business records and breaking campaign finance law – and with Cohen at stage centre.