Michael Cohen, the Prosecution’s Star Witness, Calls for Trump’s Criminal Case to Be Dismissed
For a good part of this past spring, Donald Trump spent his days in a dreary Manhattan courtroom, reliving some of the dirtier aspects of his 2016 campaign. The past and future president witnessed leading figures from that microscopic era—Michael Cohen, Daniels storms, Hope Hicks–testified as he stood silently by, surrounded by a group of people supporting the new trial—Matt Gaetz, JD Vance, Vivek Ramaswamy.
In May, at the end of the month-long trial, Trump was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to Daniels, who claimed to have had sex with him in 2006. (Trump has always denied the affair.) But his sentencing was delayed after this year’s election. In the weeks since his victory, the various charges against the president-elect from multiple indictments have all but evaporated. Special lawyer Jack Smithwho oversaw the federal lawsuits against Trump, Have a plan to finish your work and left the Department of Justice. Public appetite for any continuation of the case has largely disappeared. “An End to the Criminal Cases Against Trump,” was the headline of a recent article New York Times Guest essay.
Even Cohen — a veteran Trump antagonist, if no longer a central figure — is now arguing to have the hush money lawsuit dismissed. On Tuesday, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office propose delaying Trump’s sentencing after his term ends in 2029. Cohen, who served as the president-elect’s fixer, arranged Daniels’ payment and is the prosecution’s key witness prosecutor, wrote in an email to Vanity fair that he would take it one step further.
That would be “prudent and prudent,” Cohen wrote to the Justice. Juan the merchantjudge in the case, accepted the motion.
However, Cohen said, “The American people spoke and re-elected Donald Trump. Accordingly, I believe we must all acknowledge and respect the office of the President and dismiss the incident immediately.”
The hush money payment to Daniels put Cohen at odds with Trump and turned him into a nationalist figure — he has written a memoir on the subject and maintains a massive social media presence across the country. similar image. His testimony in the spring trial, contrite but resolute, produced a most explosive display of the proceedings.
Along with the defense team, he is one of many lawyers in the courtroom whose fortunes have waxed and waned with Trump. The President-elect recently named two of his current attorneys, Todd Blanche And Emil Bove, assume top roles in the next administration’s Justice Department.
