Disgraced lawyer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-interviews-convicted-felon-michael-avenatti-from-prison-about-trump-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Avenatti</a> said he is willing to testify as part of the hush-money trial in New York against former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> that involves his former client, adult film star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/stormy-daniels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stormy Daniels</a>.
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/20/us-news/michael-avenatti-says-hes-in-conversations-with-trump-legal-team/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Saturday that Avenatti spoke with the outlet by phone from the Los Angeles federal prison where he is <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/lawyer-michael-avenatti-sentenced-14-years-federal-prison-stealing-millions-dollars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serving more than a decade</a> behind bars for crimes that include extortion, fraud, and embezzlement.
&#8220;The defense has contacted me,&#8221; Avenatti said, adding, &#8220;I’d be more than happy to testify; I don’t know that I will be called to testify, but I have been in touch with Trump’s defense for the better part of the year.&#8221;
Though the report said that Avenatti refused to divulge specific details about conversations with Trump&#8217;s team, it noted that a source close to Trump affirmed that ongoing discussions were taking place.
Trump faces 34 felony <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-indicted-on-34-felony-counts-of-conspiracy-falsifying-business-records-pleads-not-guilty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">counts</a> of falsifying business records to allegedly cover up payments in a bid to conceal damaging information as part of a <a href="https://manhattanda.org/district-attorney-bragg-announces-34-count-felony-indictment-of-former-president-donald-j-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“catch-and-kill”</a> scheme to influence the 2016 election. He has pleaded not guilty and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-blasts-hush-money-case-ahead-of-jury-selection-attack-on-america" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> what he says is a &#8220;political persecution.&#8221;
Manhattan District Attorney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alvin-bragg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alvin Bragg</a>, who is leading the case, <a href="https://manhattanda.org/district-attorney-bragg-announces-34-count-felony-indictment-of-former-president-donald-j-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refers to Daniels</a> as receiving one such payment of $130,000 in exchange for her silence concerning an alleged tryst with Trump. The former president denies the alleged affair took place.
With the jury selection process completed last week, opening statements are <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-trial-hush-money-jury-selection-24147c3774c8a411044c530cafcab292" target="_blank" rel="noopener">set to begin</a> Monday. Michael Cohen, Trump&#8217;s former attorney who allegedly facilitated payments to Daniels and others, is expected to be a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-ex-fixer-michael-cohen-be-key-witness-hush-money-criminal-trial-2024-04-17/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">key witness</a> despite his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-sues-michael-cohen-for-500-million" target="_blank" rel="noopener">own criminal history</a>.
Avenatti once represented Daniels in lawsuits against Trump, but in 2022 he was found guilty of stealing nearly $300,000 in book advance payments from his former client, among other crimes. He now appears sympathetic to Trump despite a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-avenatti-cross-examines-stormy-daniels-about-speaking-with-the-dead" target="_blank" rel="noopener">history</a> of criticizing him.
&#8220;There’s no question [the trial] is politically motivated because they’re concerned that he may be re-elected,&#8221; Avenatti said. “If the defendant was anyone other than Donald Trump, this case would not have been brought at this time.&#8221;
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Avenatti claimed to be &#8220;bothered by the fact that Trump, in my view, has been targeted&#8221; and suggested there were parallels to his situation. He said &#8220;there’s a significant chance&#8221; the four total criminal cases against Trump would &#8220;backfire&#8221; and &#8220;propel him to the White House.&#8221;
The New York Post also reported that Avenatti said he wished he had never met Daniels. Avenatti pushed back against the notion that he was speaking out because he is seeking a pardon from Trump in a potential second term.
Daniels told the news outlet that Avenatti is a &#8220;lunatic&#8221; and a &#8220;scumbag.&#8221; She also quipped about being glad she met him &#8220;because I’m the one that helped convict him so he couldn’t steal from even more unsuspecting clients.&#8221;

Michael Avenatti

Michael Avenatti Claims He Is Willing To Testify In Trump Hush-Money Trial

Courts

Donald Trump

Michael Cohen

Politics

Stormy Daniels

A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York</a> judge has placed a gag order on former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> restricting his ability to speak out about witnesses, prosecutors, and jurors involved in the criminal case brought against him by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
The case accuses the former president of falsifying business records related to payments made before the 2016 election by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to Stormy Daniels. Trump has pled not guilty to the 34 counts brought by Bragg’s office and denied claims that he ever had a relationship with Daniels.
Judge Juan Merchan, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-dismisses-trumps-attempt-to-delay-hush-money-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scheduled</a> the trial to begin on April 15, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-new-york-hush-money-case-places-limited/story?id=108510449" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Tuesday that Trump would be restricted from making statements on those testifying against him, like Cohen, who is testifying for Bragg. Trump is also restricted from speaking out about prosecutors and jurors, according to the gag order.
Merchan said that previous statements Trump made about individuals involved in the case &#8220;were threatening, inflammatory, denigrating,&#8221; and &#8220;a sufficient risk to the administration of justice.”
&#8220;The consequences of those statements included not only fear on the part of the individual targeted, but also the assignment of increased security resources to investigate threats and protect the individuals and family members thereof,&#8221; the judge said.
&#8220;Such inflammatory extrajudicial statements undoubtedly risk impending the orderly administration of this Court,&#8221; Merchan added. &#8220;Given that the eve of trial is upon us, it is without question that the immanency of the risk of harm is now paramount.&#8221;
Trump had previously tried to have the trial delayed, but Merchan, a donor to President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, rejected his arguments on Monday.
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Before the gag order was issued, Trump said in a Truth Social <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112162726199012291" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> that Bragg’s case against him was pushed by the Biden administration and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
“D.A. Bragg fought everyone about trying this ‘no crime’ case, but Crooked Joe Biden’s ‘Thugs’ pushed him to go forward, and pushed him hard,” Trump said. “They wanted him to go after ME, Crooked’s Political Opponent. He just didn’t want to do it. They ended up sending Matthew Colangelo, Merrick Garland’s ‘right hand,’ after a stop at the Corrupt and Racist New York State A.G. Letecia ‘Peekaboo’ James’ Office, to directly oversee the D.A., perhaps to make sure that Bragg followed their illegal orders and commands. He eventually agreed to do the ‘case’ that he never wanted to do.”
Bragg’s case, which has been widely viewed as the weakest case against the former president, was the first in a slew of criminal charges against Trump and made Trump the first ex-president to be charged with a crime.

Former President Donald Trump Attends Pre-Trial Hearing In New York Hush Money Case

Judge Issues Gag Order On Trump Ahead Of New York Criminal Trial

Alvin Bragg

Manhattan

New York

U.S.

Former President Donald Trump is suing his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, for more than $500 million.
The lawsuit, <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.645291/gov.uscourts.flsd.645291.1.0_2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed Wednesday</a> in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, accuses Cohen of betraying the attorney-client relationship, improper enrichment, and spreading falsehoods. The suit cites Cohen&#8217;s public statements, including in books, and says Cohen ignored &#8220;cease and desist&#8221; orders.
&#8220;This is an action arising from [Cohen’s] multiple breaches of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, conversion and breaches of contract by virtue of [Cohen’s] past service as [Trump’s] employee and attorney,&#8221; the lawsuit states.
In addition to estimating more than $500 million in damages should the lawsuit be successful, the complaint seeks $74,000 subject to an allegedly &#8220;unlawful conversion and made via fraudulent misrepresentation&#8221; by Cohen, plus interest and other costs and expenses.
Lanny Davis, an attorney for Cohen, released a statement that said Trump is &#8220;once again using and abusing the judicial system as a form of harassment and intimidation against Michael Cohen.&#8221;
&#8220;It appears he is terrified by his looming legal perils and is attempting to send a message to other potential witnesses who are cooperating with prosecutors against him,&#8221; Davis added. &#8220;Mr. Cohen will not be deterred and is confident that the suit will fail based on the facts and the law.&#8221;
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Michael Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis accuses Trump of “abusing the judicial system as a form of harassment and intimidation” with his $500 million lawsuit.
Updated story, <a href="https://twitter.com/lawcrimenews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@lawcrimenews</a> <a href="https://t.co/22k6zJR424">https://t.co/22k6zJR424</a> <a href="https://t.co/W5kvjKA3r0">pic.twitter.com/W5kvjKA3r0</a>
&mdash; Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) <a href="https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1646243539947487234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The lawsuit comes after a significant escalation in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg&#8217;s investigation into Trump making so-called hush money payments during the 2016 election cycle. Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-indicted-on-34-felony-counts-of-conspiracy-falsifying-business-records-pleads-not-guilty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pleaded not guilty</a> to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records last week after being indicted by a grand jury.
Though Cohen <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/nyregion/michael-cohen-trump-grand-jury.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified to the grand jury</a> and has spoken out about the case, a source close to Trump&#8217;s legal team told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-sues-michael-cohen-for-500-million" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>, which broke the story about the lawsuit against Cohen, that the complaint has &#8220;nothing to do&#8221; with Bragg&#8217;s inquiry.
Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to a number of crimes, including lying to Congress and over his facilitating payments to two women threatening to come forward with allegations about alleged affairs with Trump, which the former president has denied. Cohen, who claimed Trump directed the hush money payments, was sentenced to three years in prison. He was <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/582654-michael-cohen-officially-released-from-prison-sentence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released in late 2021.</a>
Ever since his break with Trump, Cohen has spoken out about regretting his &#8220;blind loyalty&#8221; that he says led him to cover up his <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/12/former-donald-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-sentenced-blind-loyalty/2274755002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">former boss&#8217;s &#8220;dirty deeds.&#8221;</a>
Trump is months into another campaign for the presidency and is facing legal jeopardy from multiple investigations that he claims are being run by politically motivated prosecutors. In a $250 million New York <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/04/04/trump-trying-to-force-michael-cohen-deposition-in-fraud-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">civil fraud case</a>, Trump asked a judge this month to force Cohen to appear for a deposition.
In January, Trump and one of his attorneys were ordered to pay fines of <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/judge-fines-trump-attorney-1-million-filing-revenge/story?id=96554509" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly $1 million</a> over a Russiagate lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and others that a judge had <a href="https://apnews.com/article/politics-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-florida-new-york-872898a17b2f55a4d1235f978633d2df" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deemed to be &#8220;frivolous.&#8221;</a>

Michael Cohen in New York

Trump Sues Michael Cohen For $500 Million

Lawsuit

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-scarborough-reads-biden-admin-the-riot-act-over-classified-docs-fumble-amateur-hour/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Scarborough</a> is right: The walls really are closing in in the Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-attacks-desantis-after-gov-slammed-soros-funded-d-a-cited-hush-money-minors-or-a-man-might-accuse-desantis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hush-money case</a>.
It&#8217;s just that they’re closing in on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, not the former president. Bragg’s case is collapsing just as he was on the brink of becoming the Democrats’ dragon slayer. The legal case was already flimsy even before his star witness was exposed to grand jurors as a sleazy liar. Now, even if he can eke out an indictment, Bragg’s prospects at trial look bleak.
A photo op of a once and possibly future president being perp-walked would be catnip for liberals and provide a sugar high for Bragg. Reminding everyone that Trump allegedly had a fling with a floozie in 2006 is fun for the folks who once seriously touted her old attorney Michael Avenatti for president. But what if the case goes forward, only to be tossed on summary judgment? Or if it goes the distance and Bragg gets his clock cleaned? Those are real possibilities, and either one would only burnish the legend of Teflon Trump. And Alvin Bragg would be telling Robert Mueller to hold his beer.
Many legal experts have <a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=Bragg+Trump+Turley&amp;form=QBLH&amp;sp=-1&amp;ghc=1&amp;lq=0&amp;pq=bragg+trump+turley&amp;sc=0-18&amp;qs=n&amp;sk=&amp;cvid=A8881C893EB343D1AECBFA6A80CA8868&amp;ghsh=0&amp;ghacc=0&amp;ghpl=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deemed Bragg’s case a dud</a>. He is trying to prove that Trump hid a $130,000 payment to former porn actress Stormy Daniels by having his lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, pay it and then bill him for legal services. That would be a misdemeanor at best, but Bragg is apparently trying to elevate it to a felony by claiming the payment was really a campaign expense, and not reporting it violated federal election law.
The problems with the case are many. For starters, as much as Democrats like to shriek with a straight face that “no one is above the law,” charging a former president and current White House candidate can’t be done lightly. Doing so on a seven-year-old misdemeanor regarding a 17-year-old rendezvous Trump denies ever happened is so weak it can only be viewed as politically motivated. Second, Bragg’s scheme to turn said misdemeanor into a felony requires him to prosecute a federal campaign violation, which is out of his legal lane. The Department of Justice, which would have jurisdiction, considered that case years ago and passed.
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The prosecution of Trump on the Stormy Daniels hush money is absurd by pretty much every available legal theory. That’s why Trump should focus his fire on the Manhattan DA, not Ron DeSantis. <a href="https://t.co/Z7LyOFzPo5">pic.twitter.com/Z7LyOFzPo5</a>
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Bragg was ready to press on anyway, until Monday. That’s when a former federal prosecutor and onetime legal adviser to Cohen invited himself before the grand jury and proceeded to drop a grand piano on Cohen. Armed with documents, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/game-changer-costello-testimony-may-have-sunk-manhattan-das-case-against-trump-dershowitz-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert Costello spent two hours</a> telling grand jurors that Cohen is a liar and couldn’t tell the truth “if you put a gun to his head.” Then on Wednesday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/letter-shows-false-claims-made-to-investigators-about-michael-cohens-130000-hush-money-payment-to-stormy-daniels-report/">a 2018 letter surfaced</a> which detailed how Cohen had told his own lawyers at the time that he paid off Stormy Daniels with his own money and without Trump’s knowledge.
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Unlike in a criminal trial in which the Brady rule is in effect, Bragg was not required to tell grand jurors about evidence that undermines his case. But that doesn’t mean they didn’t find out about Cohen’s crooked character, directly from Costello and likely from reports Wednesday about the damning letter. By now, they may even know that Cohen went to federal prison for lying to Congress, among other things.
Bragg gave jurors the day off Wednesday, but he might have needed the downtime himself to think about his next step. Will it be away from the brink or right onto a rake? He should think carefully, because, you know, the walls are closing in.

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Guess Who The Walls Are Closing In On In Alvin Bragg’s Trump Case

Guess Who The Walls Are Closing In On In Alvin Bragg's Trump Case

A five-year-old letter surfaced Wednesday that appeared to show President Trump&#8217;s former fixer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michael-cohen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Cohen</a> lied to investigators about a hush money payment made during the 2016 presidential election.
The letter, dated February 8, 2018, was written by Cohen&#8217;s attorney Stephen M. Ryan to the Federal Election Commission about the payment Cohen made to porn actress Stormy Daniels. In it, Cohen&#8217;s lawyer claims that Cohen used &#8220;his own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to Ms. Stephanie Clifford.&#8221;
&#8220;Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed Mr. Cohen for the payment directly or indirectly,&#8221; the letter said.
Cohen pled guilty six months after that letter was written to several charges in federal court, including <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/michael-cohen-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-eight-counts-including-criminal-tax" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campaign finance violations related to the payment to Daniels</a>.
Cohen, who has since been disbarred, is a key figure in the Manhattan District Attorney&#8217;s Office grand jury investigation into former President Donald Trump&#8217;s alleged involvement in that payment to Daniels. He has told investigators for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and testified to the grand jury that he made the payments at the direction of Trump.
Attorney Robert Costello, who used to advise Cohen, reportedly attacked the credibility of Cohen in court this week after he said that he had information that contradicted some of Cohen’s current statements and that “could be exculpatory for Trump.”
The letter was not presented to the grand jury, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/manhattan-grand-jury-wont-meet-wednesday-potential-trump-indictment-delayed-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">did not</a> meet on Wednesday, but is expected to reconvene on Thursday. Even if grand jurors remain unaware of its contents, the letter could impact Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg&#8217;s decision on whether to seek an indictment, given Cohen&#8217;s credibility problems.
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As noted by the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/22/2018-letter-shows-michael-cohen-lying-to-federal-officials/">New York Post</a> and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/us/politics/trump-michael-cohen-checks.html">The New York Times</a>, Cohen was paid $420,000 by Trump or Trump&#8217;s trust. According to federal prosecutors, that money included $130,000 for the payment and $50,000 for digital work Cohen did for Trump. That $180,000 was then allegedly doubled to offset taxes. The remaining $60,000 was a &#8220;bonus,&#8221; prosecutors say.
Although non-disclosure agreements are legal, the potential problem for Trump centers around how his company reimbursed Cohen. The payment was listed as a legal expense and the company cited a retainer agreement with Cohen. The retainer agreement did not exist and the reimbursement was not related to any legal services from Cohen, thus setting up a potential misdemeanor criminal charge of falsifying business records. The report said that Trump personally signed several of the checks to Cohen while he was serving as president.
Prosecutors can elevate the misdemeanor to a felony if they can prove that Trump’s “‘intent to defraud’ included an intent to commit or conceal a second crime.”
Prosecutors argue that the second crime is that the alleged $130,000 hush payment was an improper donation to the Trump campaign because the money was used to stop a story for the purpose of benefiting his presidential campaign.
This report has been updated to include additional information.

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen testifies before grand jury

2018 Letter Shows Michael Cohen Made False Claims To Investigators About Hush Money Payment To Stormy Daniels

Crime

A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York</a> grand jury considering evidence of former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s alleged role in a 2016 hush money payment to a porn star has reportedly been called off on Wednesday, delaying any possible indictment of Trump.
The grand jury will not meet on Wednesday, delaying a potential indictment of the former president until Thursday at the earliest, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/nyregion/trump-grand-jury-delay.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>. The news comes after a Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11886761/Trump-indicted-WEDNESDAY-wont-appear-court-week.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> suggested that an indictment was expected to come down on Wednesday.
The grand jury case fell into a firestorm of controversy this week after Trump suggested over the weekend that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg planned to have Trump charged and arrested on Tuesday. The day passed without an indictment.
The pause in the case comes two days after Robert Costello, a former federal prosecutor, testified in front of the grand jury that Trump&#8217;s former fixer Michael Cohen, who Costello used to give legal counsel to, is untrustworthy. Cohen is believed to be the key witness in whatever charges may be brought.
“I told the grand jury that this guy couldn&#8217;t tell the truth if you put a gun to his head,” Costello told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/20/nyregion/costello-cohen-trump-grand-jury.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> after his testimony.
Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said during a Fox News appearance on Tuesday night that Costello’s testimony likely <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/game-changer-costello-testimony-may-have-sunk-manhattan-das-case-against-trump-dershowitz-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">derailed</a> Bragg’s plans. Dershowitz said that Costello’s attacked on Cohen’s reliability may have killed Bragg’s chances of relying on the former Trump attorney as a witness.
“Bob Costello has changed this case dramatically,” Dershowitz told Fox host Sean Hannity.
“I think that Bragg now only has two possible results from that. Number one, he can say, ‘alright, I’m going to try to make the case without Cohen.’ He cannot use Cohen as a witness anymore. That would be unethical because of the testimony that Costello gave,” he continued. “Or he could say, ‘look, I have to drop the case.’ He may not be able to make it without Cohen. But if he can’t make it without Cohen, he can’t make it, because no ethical prosecutor is allowed to put on as a witness somebody who has told the lies and has contradicted himself so much.”
Bragg is investigating Trump&#8217;s role in a $130,000 payment Cohen made to the porn star known as Stormy Daniels in 2016. Cohen allegedly made the payment on behalf of Trump to keep Daniels from spreading claims that she slept with Trump in 2006 soon after Trump&#8217;s wife, Melania, gave birth to their son. Trump, who was running for president at the time of the payment, has denied his alleged role in the payment and the affair.

Manhattan Grand Jury Won’t Meet Wednesday, Potential Trump Indictment Delayed: Report

Manhattan Grand Jury Won't Meet Wednesday, Potential Trump Indictment Delayed: Report

A lawyer who previously advised ex-Trump lawyer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michael-cohen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Cohen</a> is expected to testify this week in the Manhattan grand jury investigation into former President Donald Trump’s alleged $130,000 hush money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election.
Attorney Robert Costello is reportedly prepared to attack the credibility of Cohen, who allegedly made the payment to Daniels on Trump’s behalf and was later improperly reimbursed for the expense.
The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-cohen-hush-money-grand-jury-daniels-5eaeae46af595ba012272cc10085ee8f?taid=64177f3837b03e0001539fab&amp;utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Costello claims to have information that contradicts some of Cohen’s current statements and that “could be exculpatory for Trump.”
The report said that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg&#8217;s office &#8220;last week subpoenaed Costello’s law firm for records and invited him to provide testimony on Monday afternoon.&#8221;
&#8220;THE MOST IMPORTANT WITNESS TO GO BEFORE THE NEW YORK CITY GRAND JURY, A HIGHLY RESPECTED LAWYER WHO ONCE REPRESENTED CONVICTED FELON, JAILBIRD, AND SERIAL FAKE STORYTELLER AND LIAR, MICHAEL COHEN, WILL BE DOING SO TOMORROW AFTERNOON,&#8221; Trump said on social media. &#8220;THE INFORMATION HE WILL PRESENT WILL SUPPOSEDLY BE CONCLUSIVE AND IRREFUTABLE!&#8221;
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-illegal-leaks-indicate-hell-be-arrested-on-tuesday-of-next-week-calls-for-protests">ignited</a> a firestorm over the weekend after he claimed on social media on Saturday that he was going to be &#8220;arrested on Tuesday.&#8221; A spokesperson for Trump later <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-received-no-notification-than-illegal-leaks-possible-arrest-next-week-spokesperson-says?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that Trump has been given “no notification” that there will be an arrest next week.
Trump’s remarks came after a <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/law-enforcement-agencies-are-prepping-possible-trump-indictment-early-rcna75493" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from NBC News said federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies were analyzing security assessments and making plans to prepare for the possibility that Trump could be indicted next week, but no date was given in the report.
Many notable <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/some-politicians-notable-figures-weigh-in-on-trumps-claim-that-he-will-be-arrested-on-tuesday" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conservatives</a> cast doubt on the Manhattan District Attorney&#8217;s Office investigation into the former president.
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&#8220;Prosecuting Trump over the Stormy Daniels payoff is beyond absurd,&#8221; Daily Wire podcast host Ben Shapiro tweeted. &#8220;It&#8217;s political targeting, obviously &#8212; and it&#8217;s coming from the same DA who pledged in 2022 not to prosecute misdemeanor resisting arrest, certain obstruction of governmental administration, and prostitution.&#8221;
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Prosecuting Trump over the Stormy Daniels payoff is beyond absurd. It&#39;s political targeting, obviously &#8212; and it&#39;s coming from the same DA who pledged in 2022 not to prosecute misdemeanor resisting arrest, certain obstruction of governmental administration, and prostitution.
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1637518908297969664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The case involves an alleged payment that Cohen admits he made to Daniels during the presidential race to keep quiet about an alleged 2006 tryst between Trump and Daniels. Cohen pleaded guilty to related charges and served time in prison.
Although non-disclosure agreements are legal, the potential problem for Trump centers around how his company reimbursed Cohen. The payment was listed as a legal expense and the company cited a retainer agreement with Cohen. The retainer agreement did not exist and the reimbursement was not related to any legal services from Cohen, thus setting up a potential misdemeanor criminal charge of falsifying business records. The report said that Trump personally signed several of the checks to Cohen while he was serving as president.
Prosecutors can elevate the misdemeanor to a felony if they can prove that Trump’s “‘intent to defraud’ included an intent to commit or conceal a second crime.”
Prosecutors argue that the second crime is that the alleged $130,000 hush payment was an improper donation to the Trump campaign because the money was used to stop a story for the purpose of benefiting his presidential campaign.
This article has been updated with new information.

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Manhattan Grand Jury Investigation Into Trump Not Over As Another Witness Invited To Testify: Report

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> has &#8220;no plans&#8221; to testify in the grand jury investigation into his involvement in the $130,000 hush payment made to former pornstar Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election, according to his lawyer.
&#8220;We have no plans on participating in that proceeding,&#8221; Trump attorney Joe Tacopina <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-plans-participate-manhattan-grand-jury-probe-attorney/story?id=97821858">told</a> ABC News on Monday. &#8220;Decision needs to be made still. There&#8217;s been no deadline set, so we&#8217;ll wait and see.&#8221;
The criminal investigation into Trump’s payment to Daniels, who says that she had an affair with the former president, has lasted five years. The case involves a payment that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, who pled guilty to felony charges related to the payment, made to Daniels during the presidential race.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/nyregion/trump-bragg-cohen-indictment.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare">reported</a> that Cohen is set to testify this week, describing the move as a &#8220;sign that prosecutors are poised to indict the former president for his role in paying hush money.&#8221;
The report said that it would be highly unlikely at this point for prosecutors to not seek an indictment given the amount of relevant witnesses questioned in front of the grand jury and the offer for Trump to testify.
Daniels’ representatives contacted the National Enquirer about her story during the campaign, but the publication was not interested in buying the exclusive rights to it. The publication’s publisher brokered a deal between Cohen and Daniels.
The potential problem for Trump centers around how his company paid Cohen for the hush payment. The expense was listed as a legal expense and the company cited a retainer agreement with Cohen. The retainer agreement did not exist and the reimbursement was not related to any legal services from Cohen, thus setting up a potential misdemeanor criminal charge of falsifying business records. The report said that Trump personally signed several of the checks to Cohen while he was serving as president.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/nyregion/trump-potential-criminal-charges-bragg.html">reported</a> last week that prosecutors can elevate the misdemeanor to a felony if they can prove that Trump’s “&#8217;intent to defraud’ included an intent to commit or conceal a second crime.”
Prosecutors argue that the second crime is that the $130,000 hush payment was an improper donation to the Trump campaign because the money was used to stop a story for the purpose of benefiting his presidential run.

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Trump Has ‘No Plans’ To Testify In Grand Jury Investigation As Likelihood Of Being Indicted Increases: Report

Trump Has 'No Plans' To Testify In Grand Jury Investigation As Likelihood Of Being Indicted Increases: Report

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The host of “CNN Newsroom” laughed as a former advisor to President Donald Trump suggested that the president’s cognitively impaired, conservative supporters could be driven out of the “cult of Trump” by being sent to jail.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michael-cohen">Michael Cohen</a>, a lawyer whom the legacy media regularly referred to as Trump’s “fixer,” said on Monday that Trump still has “a base of people who I truly don&#8217;t understand, who don&#8217;t understand that Donald Trump does not want to be president of this country. He wants to be a dictator, autocrat, or a monarch. He wants to be the Kim Jong-Un, the Vladimir Putin” of the United States of America.
Yet, he said, Trump will not stop insisting that he won the 2020 presidential election against Joe Biden, because his goal “is to convince you that he won the election, and he&#8217;s done that with this percentage of Americans that are so deep into the cult of Trump — and trust me, I know about the cult of Trump. I was one of its leaders, maybe one of its founders. And I see exactly the stupidity of people as I walk in the city, or I get certain text messages on occasion from individuals who are so entrenched into this cult that they can&#8217;t see straight.&#8221;
“What is the answer to getting out of it?” asked &#8220;CNN Newsroom&#8221; host Alisyn Camerota.
“Maybe incarceration,” said Cohen.
Camerota laughed before replying, “I’m not sure the prisons are big enough for all of that.”
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Michael Cohen and CNN&#39;s Alisyn Camerota laugh about putting Trump supporters in prison. <a href="https://t.co/T3LI3xhwn3">pic.twitter.com/T3LI3xhwn3</a>
&mdash; Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1462871580455886858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In August 2018, Cohen entered a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/michael-cohen-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-eight-counts-including-criminal-tax">guilty plea</a> to charges of tax evasion, making false statements to a federally-insured bank, and campaign finance violations for paying off pornstar Stormy Daniels, allegedly at Trump’s direction. At the time, Capital University law professor Bradley A. Smith said the charges Cohen copped to were not a crime. “There is no violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act,” <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/michael-cohen-sentencing-campaign-finance-law/">wrote</a> Smith at National Review. “We do ourselves no service by distorting and misapplying our campaign-finance laws in the hope of bagging Donald Trump.”
Last May Cohen was placed on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-cohen-finally-released-from-prison-amid-coronavirus-concerns">house arrest</a>, becoming one of the numerous <a href="https://stream.org/the-great-coronavirus-jailbreak/">convicts released from the nation’s prison</a> system, purportedly to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Cohen’s promise that he would offer valuable information on the Trump Organization that would result in high-level indictments, prosecutions, and possibly convictions has not come to fruition. “I talked about how all of this stemmed from the hush-money payments to Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, and Karen McDougal. You were the only person prosecuted for the hush-money payments. How do you explain that?” asked Camerota. “If you have been providing valuable and legitimate information to the investigators, what is taking so long” to charge anyone else of a crime?
“You can&#8217;t explain this,” replied Cohen. “But I make this promise, I may have been prosecuted, and right now I am the only one, but I will not be the only one.”
Cohen said part of the difficulty in charging Trump stems from the fact that the president used “code” language, like saying “Coke” to refer to Coke. “He&#8217;ll never tell you, go get me a Coke. He just screamed out ‘Coke!’ So, this is the way a mob boss speaks,” Cohen <a href="https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/cnr/date/2021-11-22/segment/08">said</a>. “This is what a mob boss does. They speak in code.”
Cohen was not the first person to declare Trump’s supporters to be mentally deficient on CNN. Last January, Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson and New York Times op-ed writer Wajahat Ali belittled Trump voters as uneducated rubes incapable of understanding “yer geography, and yer maps, and yer spelling&#8230;&#8221;
Host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sorry-mr-president-10-reasons-don-lemon-is-not-one-of-the-most-informed-journalists-in-the-country">Don Lemon</a> laughed until he cried.
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The arrogance, the dismissiveness, the smug cackling, the accents.
If Donald Trump wins re-election this year, I’ll remember this brief CNN segment late one Saturday night in January as the perfect encapsulation for why it happened. <a href="https://t.co/8kQ6zN9AZV">pic.twitter.com/8kQ6zN9AZV</a>
&mdash; Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveKrak/status/1221988232528826369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Trump’s Former Fixer Is Unleashed, And Ready To Make Money

‘Incarceration’: CNN Guest Asks If Jail Time Could End The ‘Stupidity’ Of The ‘Cult Of Trump’

Alisyn Camerota

Media Bias

Fox News host Tucker Carlson released a bombshell tape on Wednesday night that showed CNN host Chris Cuomo coaching then-Trump attorney Michael Cohen on how to answer questions during interviews on CNN.
&#8220;Zucker and Cuomo &#8230; are frauds, just like the channel they work for,&#8221; Carlson began. &#8220;Despite its name, CNN is not a cable news network, it is a slickly produced propaganda loop. Every topic CNN covers has been chosen for its political effect. Every word its anchors speak has been curated to manipulate you. Nothing winds up on CNN by accident.&#8221;
&#8220;The whole thing is a scripted drama written for the benefit of the Democratic Party,&#8221; Carlson continued. &#8220;That’s not an overstatement; tonight we have proof. This is a conversation that took place in 2018 between CNN anchor Chris Cuomo and his friend, the disgraced felon lawyer Michael Cohen. The two spoke in person. Cohen wanted Cuomo to prepare him for an interview he’d been asked to do on CNN. As Michael Cohen put it, he wanted &#8216;Guidance, as a friend more than anything.'&#8221;
&#8220;Michael Cohen was worried about doing the interview because he knew he’d get questions about the payments he made to Stormy Daniels. He wanted Chris Cuomo to tell him what to say,&#8221; Carlson continued. &#8220;Now on TV, Cuomo might’ve launched into a lecture about how it’s wrong to send money to strippers, but in private, he skipped that lecture.&#8221;
“‘You will be asked that,’ Chris Cuomo told Michael Cohen, and you can say, &#8216;I did it for him, for Donald Trump. My relationship has always been for him. I&#8217;ve always said I don’t speak for the campaign, I speak for him as his attorney,'&#8221; Carlson continued. &#8220;Cuomo went on to elaborate, &#8216;And to the question of motive,’ he told Cohen, ‘the response would have to be, you can speculate as to why you think I did it all day long, but the only answer is my answer, and I just told you why I did it. You don’t get to speculate because if you can’t prove that I got paid back by Trump or the campaign, it is slander and defamation for you to say that I did.'&#8221;
Carlson said that Cuomo had deployed the “time-tested” defense of “the obviously guilty,” which is to threaten those who are asking questions.
“Then he gamed out what would happen next when Cohen went on his own channel,” Carlson continued.
“I think the way this conversation goes is almost exactly the way we’re having it right now, which is where I say, ‘this looks shady’ and you say, ‘it looks shady to you because you’re coming in with a specific intention,’” Carlson read from the script of what Cuomo told Cohen. “Again, Cuomo advised Cohen to attack the anchor.”
“Chris Cuomo began acting out both sides of the exchange—he acted out the news anchor’s question and then he acted Cohen’s scripted response to that question,” Carlson continued. “The conversation devolved into a kind of one-man play with Chris Cuomo as the performer and Michael Cohen as the audience.”
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Tucker Carlson Releases Bombshell Tape Of Cuomo Coaching Cohen On How To Answer Interview Questions

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Tucker Carlson

Fox News host Tucker Carlson released stunning audio recordings between CNN President Jeff Zucker and former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen that appeared to show Zucker trying to cozy up to Cohen in order to win favor with Trump.
During the segment, Carlson plays audio recordings between Cohen and Zucker where Zucker gives Trump political advice and says that he wants to create a weekly show for Trump. Zucker says during the recording that he doesn&#8217;t want to put any of it in writing in an email in an apparent attempt to keep it from becoming public.
At the very end of the segment, Carlson played an audio recording of CNN host Chris Cuomo that Carlson said proved that some CNN&#8217;s interviews are &#8220;coached.&#8221; Carlson said that he was releasing more on the tapes involving Cuomo tomorrow night.
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TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS HOST: Disgraced felon lawyer Michael Cohen has a new book out, it’s an election year quickie that he probably hasn’t even read, it attacks Donald Trump. Someone should ask him, have you read it? Quick, what’s chapter three about? No one will ask him that of course, the media naturally have swung into formation to promote it. CNN’s leading the charge. Tomorrow night, Michael Cohen is on CNN for a much-hyped prime time interview. You can imagine how many tough questions he’s going to get on CNN, probably not too many. For Michael Cohen, CNN is like a second home. He’s got a lot of close friends over there including, we told you about this last week, the channel’s chief body building correspondent Chris Cuomo. We’ll have much more on the friendship between Cohen and Cuomo later in the week.
But Chris Cuomo is not Cohen’s only ally at CNN. Cohen is also close to CNN President Jeff Zucker, the man who moonlights as a Democratic campaign operative. Cohen and Zucker once had kids at the same private school in New York. Cohen served on the board of school with Zucker’s ex-wife. Jeff Zucker and Michael Cohen have long been personal friends, as least to the extent that narcissists have the capacity for personal friendship. The relationship tells you a lot about how things actually work in media and in politics. Case in point, on March 10, 2016, that was the day of the final Republican primary debate, Cohen called Jeff Zucker on his cell phone. CNN was hosting the debate in Miami and Cohen—who was working for Donald Trump at the time—wanted to check in about it. Zucker almost immediately started bragging about himself as he [wants] to do. After a few proforma words about their family, Zucker launched into an extended lecture about his own importance. &#8230;
&#8220;Here’s the thing… you cannot be elected president of the United States without CNN. Fox and MSNBC are irrelevant—irrelevant—in electing a general election candidate.&#8221;
If you want to run the country in other words, Jeff Zucker said, you’ve got to sniff my throne. It’s not that CNN needs the help, he explained, ‘We’re killing it, we’re doing great.’ But Donald Trump badly needs CNN.
“You guys have had great instincts, great guts and great understanding of everything. But you’re missing the boat on how it works going forward.”
“Okay,” Michael Cohen replies. “Why don’t you email Donald Trump and tell him that.”
And at that point, for the first time in the conversation, Jeff Zucker pauses. It turns out that Jeff Zucker doesn’t like to write things down, sneaky people never do. So here’s what he says next:
JEFF ZUCKER, CNN PRESIDENT: “I’m very conscious of not putting too much in email, as you’re a lawyer, as you understand. And, you know, and as fond as I am of the boss, he also has a tendency, like, you know, if I call him or I email him, he then is capable of going out at his next rally and saying that we just talked and I can’t have that if you know what I’m saying.”
CARLSON: People would know I talked to Trump and I can’t have that, if you know what I’m saying. Yeah, we know what you are saying Jeff Zucker. You are saying secretly, that when you think no one is watching, you are more than happy to play all sides. You can brag about how powerful you are, the big-time network honcho kingmaker, the man who decides who’s president. Like all tiny insecure people, you’ll mix flattery with your swagger along the way, you refer to Donald Trump as “The Boss” even when he is not on the call. You are happy to do that. What you don’t want, is anyone in your tiny self-righteous left-wing rich person world to know that you’re doing it. What would Don Lemon think if he knew you were talking to orange Satan? Brooke Baldwin might storm off the set. The world would conclude that you’re a dishonest phony and for good reasons. So, you’ve got to keep it all hidden. ‘Sorry, you know what I’m saying.’ But Zucker assured Michael Cohen that none of this was personal. “It’s not that I don’t want to talk to Trump every day. I’ve just got to be careful because I’ve got to be careful. I just don’t want him talking about it on the campaign trail. But you know what? I’m going to give him a call right now and I’m going to wish him luck in the debate tonight.”
And then Zucker added this:
ZUCKER: “I have all these proposals for him. Like, I want to do a weekly show with and all this stuff. Is he back in New York tomorrow, do you know?”
CARLSON: Wait, what? A weekly show on CNN? Jeff Zucker, the president of CNN, wanted to give a weekly show to a man he himself has denounced as a racist? Yep. That was the plan. Trump, of course, never did get the show, Anderson Cooper is still there. But Jeff Zucker did take the time to dispense quite a bit of unsolicited political advice to Michael Cohen, ‘ I think the other guys are going to gang up on him tremendously…and I think he’s going to hold his own, as he does every time. He’s never lost a debate. And you know what? He’s good at this…He’s going to do great.’ Cohen didn’t seem convinced by this. Cohen was worried about attacks from the other Republicans on the stage, but Zucker reassured him that Trump would prevail. And then, Jeff Zucker offered this surprisingly detailed political advice. Listen:
MICHAEL COHEN, THEN-TRUMP ATTORNEY: How many time do you think Cruz is going to call him a conman tonight?
ZUCKER: No, Rubio.
COHEN: I mean Rubio. I mean Rubio. How many times do you think he’s—
ZUCKER: A lot. A lot.
COHEN: I say, 100.
ZUCKER: So, you know what you should do? Whoever’s around him today should just be calling him a conman all day, so that he’s used to it, so that when he hears it from Rubio, it doesn’t matter. ‘Hey conman. Hey conman. Hey conman. He thinks that’s his name, you know?”</blockquote>

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WATCH: Tucker Carlson Releases Stunning Audio Of CNN’s Jeff Zucker And Michael Cohen; Hints More Coming On Chris Cuomo

Jeff Zucker

President Donald Trump called for CNN host Chris Cuomo to be fired on Tuesday morning after &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; featured a recorded conversation between Cuomo and disbarred attorney Michael Cohen about sexual misconduct.
&#8220;Will Fredo be fired by Fake News @CNN?&#8221; Trump tweeted. &#8220;He speaks with great disrespect about women, and it will only get worse. Fredo’s Ratings are bad, so this is the time. Always terrible to speak to sleazebags, especially when you are being recorded. CNN has no choice, Fredo must go!&#8221;
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Will Fredo be fired by Fake News <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a>? He speaks with great disrespect about women, and it will only get worse. Fredo’s Ratings are bad, so this is the time. Always terrible to speak to sleazebags, especially when you are being recorded. CNN has no choice, Fredo must go! <a href="https://t.co/veVwg7G1YF">https://t.co/veVwg7G1YF</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1301090370508464129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Trump&#8217;s remarks come in response to the following <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-tucker-carlson-releases-audio-between-cnns-chris-cuomo-and-michael-cohen">exchange</a> between Cuomo and Cohen that was played on Tucker Carlson&#8217;s show last night:
<blockquote>CUOMO: You know, I’m always careful when I talk to media, you know? … You know how many f***ing phone calls I’ve gotten from people at ABC who say that reporters are calling and lying about things they heard about me to try to get stories about me when I was at ABC? Guys calling and saying, “I heard he was the Charlie Rose of ABC. He used to invite women to the hotel and open his bathrobe.” Do I look like the kind of f***ing guy who’s gotta do that?
COHEN: Sure. Why not?
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CUOMO: …lying saying, “I have a good source that says he forced one woman to have sex. I just want to know if you’ve ever heard anything like that.” There is no woman. There is none of that.
COHEN: So, here’s the problem–
CUOMO: Women who do work there, saying, “oh, yeah, you know, some of these men,” and naming me with other guys. “You know, we bumped into each other once in the elevator and he put his hand on my shoulder and he made me really uncomfortable.” I mean, what the f***?
COHEN: It’s a problem and now–
CUOMO: I’m careful with the media always. I’ve always told you, the media is not your friend.
COHEN: No.</blockquote>
“Whoa,” Carlson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-tucker-carlson-releases-audio-between-cnns-chris-cuomo-and-michael-cohen">said</a> after playing the tape. “Well, there’s a lot to unpack here, but the first thing you notice is that Chris Cuomo was agitated. He’s mad. Really mad. And you know what makes him maddest of all? The suggestion that he’s gotta act like some old guy, Charlie Rose, to get the ladies.”
“Sandbagging women in hotel rooms with an open bathrobe, ‘do I look like kind of f***ing guy whose gotta do that?’ he asked his pal, Michael Cohen,” Carlson mockingly quoted Cuomo. “Cohen’s response? ‘Sure, why not?’ Open bathrobes seem normal to Michael Cohen.”
Cohen, a convicted felon, responded to the segment by writing on Twitter: &#8220;The only people in possession of these recordings are me, @DOJ , @POTUS &amp; Trump Org. I did not give this recording or authorization for its use to @FoxNews or anyone. @POTUS and cronies violated my First amendment rights and now this; all to discredit me and my book. What’s next?&#8221;
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The only people in possession of these recordings are me, <a href="https://twitter.com/doj?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DOJ</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> &amp; Trump Org. I did not give this recording or authorization for its use to <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a> or anyone. <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> and cronies violated my First amendment rights and now this; all to discredit me and my book. What’s next? <a href="https://t.co/ajgmpE9ZoF">pic.twitter.com/ajgmpE9ZoF</a>
&mdash; Michael Cohen (@MichaelCohen212) <a href="https://twitter.com/MichaelCohen212/status/1300956925966913544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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