Michael Cohen is living his best life at the DNC with band of Trump-hating Republicans
Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen joined a string of Republicans who have ditched his former boss at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday and joked he would speak to Kamala Harris’s Chicago crowd “if they let me.”
Cohen and a group of former Trump voters and anti-Trump Republicans, including the former president’s ex-press secretary Stephanie Grisham, were in Chicago on the second night of the convention.
The former Trump ally, who was not invited to speak, was most recently in the limelight as he testified against the former president in the hush money trial which saw Trump convicted on 34 charges of falsifying business records.
Cohen made a $130,000 hush money payment to adult actor Stormy Daniels to remain quiet in the leadup to the 2016 election about an alleged affair. Trump logged the reimbursements to Cohen as legal expenses.
Cohen told the jury that Trump directed him to make the payment before the election and that the reimbursement was approved after his victory. Trump is still claiming that he paid Cohen for legitimate legal business.
Ahead of the trial, Cohen told MSNBC that he was getting a slew of death threats from Trump supporters.
«It’s witness intimidation and it’s harassment,» Cohen told the network. «What is his goal? Again, it’s to incite these followers … to prevent me from appearing before… the Manhattan district attorney in this upcoming trial. He does not want to face accountability at any cost.»
At the Democratic convention, Cohen told The Washington Times that he’s concerned for the future of the country if Trump is re-elected.
“I fear for my children. I fear, God willing one day, my grandchildren if I’m lucky enough to live that long,” he told the paper. “I’m concerned about our