Michael Cohen, ex-lawyer of Donald Trump, welcomed the indictment of the former president of the United States. The man who in a famous interview in 2017 on Fox News said he was ready to take “a bullet for the president”, finally gets his revenge to see justice catch up with Donald Trump.
Michael Cohen has admitted to having paid the $ 130,000 to porn actress Stormy Daniels which is worth Donald Trump to be charged. In 2018, released by Donald Trump, the former lawyer even pleaded guilty to breaching campaign finance rules. This earned him 3 years in prison from 2018 to 2021 – 13 months behind bars and almost 2 years during which he was under house arrest. Today he does management and crisis communication. And one thing is certain: he savors it. Witness, this post yesterday on the podcast “Meaculpa” which he feeds regularly. “Hi this is Michael Cohen! And as you listen to me, former President Donald Trump has finally been charged. Some of you may find that this is not enough! But I assure you that getting to this point, despite the efforts of his lawyers and his daily intimidation, was no small feat.”
So I want to thank the District of Manhattan, the District Attorney’s Office, and their fearless leader Alvin Bragg, with whom I spent countless hours explaining how Trump carried out this corruption.. And countless other financial crimes. He’s about to test what I’ve been through…And I promise you it’s not fun.”
Michael Cohen, former attorney for Donald Trumpon the Meaculpa Podcast
Besides the very vindictive tone, the illustration – the face of Donald Trump behind bars – says a lot about the resentment of Michael Cohen. At the height, no doubt, of the strength of their relationship for many years. Michael Cohen, 56, has always been a fan of Donald Trump. He, who grew up on Long Island near New York in a very wealthy Polish-Jewish family – with a surgeon father who survived the Holocaust – has been fascinated by the businessman since he read his bestseller “The art of the Deal” published in 1987 (translated into French under the title “Le Plaisir des Affaires” then “Trump by Trump” for reissue). Michael Cohen was then 21 years old and he dreamed of making a fortune like him.
However, he won his law degrees in a modest university in Michigan, starting with small lawyer contracts to win insurance premiums. But at the same time, thanks to his uncle, he puts a few marbles in a circle frequented by Russian and Ukrainian mafias in Brooklyn. It was there that he met his wife Laura Shusterman, whose Ukrainian father was to be prosecuted for money laundering. Among his meetings at the time, there is also a businessman Felix Sater who will be found in 2015 and who will make him dangle the support of Putin to elect Trump in exchange for a Trump Tower project in Moscow.
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Michael also began to invest in real estate and in Trump’s empire until he met him at a gala evening in the late 1990s. One day, when he owned an apartment in Trump Tower , a meeting of co-owners goes a little wrong and Michael Cohen takes up the cause of Donald Trump who makes him his handyman, both executive vice-president of the Trump Organization and “pit bull”, man of low works, for the business as for the female conquests.
Michael ready to take “a bullet” for Donald Trump
When Donald Trump was elected President at the end of 2016, Michael Cohen did not enter the White House with him, precisely because of this reputation as a thug. He is however persuaded to become chief of staff. But Ivanka, Trump’s daughter and her husband, Jared Kushner are blocking. Michael Cohen is still supportive of Trump — in a famous 2017 Fox News interview he said he was ready to take “a bullet for the president.” But in April 2018: the FBI arrives at home! Home, office, bank, the investigators search everything. They leave with about thirty mobile phones, computers, kilos of documents.
It was then that Michael Cohen unpacked everything, to the police and then in a book. The $280,000 paid to two former mistresses including Stormy Daniels to silence them during the campaign. But also the fact that Trump asked him to lie to Congress about the duration of negotiations with Russia in 2015 and 2016 when he wanted to build his Trump Tower in Moscow. The objective was to minimize the candidate’s links with the Russians. Michael Cohen says he even planned to offer Putin a $50 million apartment in the tower.
In recent days, the former American president had warned of his summons to justice and repeated that he was untouchable while overwhelming Michael Cohen. “The Disbarred Lawyer”THE “convicted offender” as he called it may well and truly hold its revenge.