Michael Cohen said Sunday that the former president’s allies would turn on him to avoid going to prison.
Former President Donald Trump’s allies will eventually turn on him to avoid prison, his former attorney Michael Cohen said on Sunday.
Cohen’s comment came nearly two weeks after FBI agents executed a search warrant for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on August 8 to seize classified government documents that were allegedly improperly taken after the then-president left the White House last January.
Trump and his allies quickly denounced the raid, approved by Attorney General Merrick Garland, as being politically motivated and part of a „witch hunt“ in accusations similar to those made about other investigations into the ex-president’s conduct.
However, Cohen—who served a three-year sentence after pleading guilty to campaign finance crimes conducted while working for Trump—said during an appearance on MSNBC that as walls close in on Trump, there will be „so much flipping“ from his allies.
„There’s going to be so much flipping.
