Michael Cohen's lawyer on the Trump indictment

An impeachment of Trump has been a priority for many of us for years. I mean, he has at least four different criminal investigations investigating him and his conduct, but there is a man who plays a very important and critical role in this case involving alleged hush money. payout to adult film star Stormy Daniels and that's Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former

lawyer

and fixer, and he says former President Trump is petrified by the impeachment and what it could mean, so he's joining us now Lanny Davis, Michael Cohen Lanny's defense attorney. It's a pleasure to have you join us this morning.

He first wanted to ask for his reaction to the latest barrage of attacks coming from the Republican Party establishment or Maga World, otherwise, about this alleged militarization and politicization of the prosecutor's office and our judicial system. They make the issue of hypocrisy regarding Donald Trump that we've seen in Congress and in the National Republican Party over the years from the double standards, the ignoring of the January 6 insurrection, all the lies. Now this is probably the ultimate hypocrisy and that is having Congressman Jordan. of all the people who were talking about weaponizing the justice department when he remained silent when Trump's justice department, according to the federal prosecutor he appointed, Jeffrey Berman, was intervening in the Michael Cohen case to erase the record that Donald Trump was accused by his own prosecutors of ordering Michael Cohen to pay hush money so that Congressman Jordan and the gun people would forget that when Michael Cohn was released during Covid he was ordered to return to prison because he did not accept not write a book and when prosecutors from the Department of Justice presented documents that were false saying it had nothing to do with the book a federal judge rejected what they said and released Michael now just think about it Federal prosecutors accused Michael of not accepting the terms of his release sent him back to prison in covid and then Jeffrey Berman the former federal prosecutor says that is because the then attorney general and the justice department at a higher level that reported to Trump, let's add, ordered that Michael Cohen was sent back to prison because he did not agree not to write a book and the federal judge charged and found in fact that federal prosecutors had submitted false statements and ordered the release of Michael Cohen if that is grounds for an investigation into false statements by federal prosecutors under the influence of Donald Trump and that is an example, a factual example. discovered by a federal judge about the use of the justice department as a weapon.

I don't know what it is, you know? Lanny, Trump's Defense Council, like Joe Takapina, have been circulating in the media. I know you've been watching him closely trying to attack. The credibility of Michael Cohen, his client, you know. I want to go back to this 2018 sentencing memo that the Department of Justice put out when it came to Michael's sentencing and it was very clear and this is coming to the Department of Justice itself, the prosecutors. says Michael Cohen regarding both payments because remember, obviously, it wasn't just Stormy Daniels, there's also Karen McDougall, that was also part of what Trump likes to hide, that Michael acted in coordination and at the direction of an individual which was Donald.

Trump and that the agreement to silence these women had the main objective of suppressing stories to prevent them from influencing the elections. I mean, Lanny, I know we don't know what happened with the grand jury and obviously there's a reason why these are confidential proceedings, but can you share with us as best you can why your client's credibility is not going to be at stake? When it comes to the prosecution of Donald Trump why will Michael be the star? Witness that beginning. Consider the fact that Joe Takapina on all of the Talking Heads on television, including many Talking Heads on other cable stations, know nothing about the evidence, nothing, and don't know that Michael Cohen fully cooperated dozens of times under oath with seven congressional committees, 500 hours and not once has he been proven to have misrepresented the truth, even in front of 50 or 100 million people, in front of Elijah Cummings and congressional hearings, and gave two grand jury testimony without accept the Fifth Amendment, unlike Donald.

Trump now, Mr. Takapina doesn't mention that the other thing that needs to be mentioned is that this case was built around documents corroborating testimony, emails, text messages, it's tremendously documented and they have no idea. Takapina doesn't know anything about the evidence that has been compiled for punching Michael Cohen even though he has established his credibility time and time again in public, they can do that, maybe that's a good thing for me because they're going to look very dumb once the evidence is known and the only republican I have ever met. I heard acknowledging, let's wait for the evidence, guys, and I say that to Talking Heads who are former prosecutors, they have no idea.

I know. I know all the facts. I know all the documents that will be part of the case. Are? They're going to look like fools once they're done trying to beat up Michael Cohen, which is their local business, they have nothing left to do ignoring the facts about Michael's credibility once they see the corroborating evidence, the other testimony, the testimony from corroborating witness Katie, no one expects more. that I, once they find out what the case is about, they will look very stupid in retrospect