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Former President Trump’s former legal professional Michael Cohen is mulling a run for Congress.
The admission got here on the witness stand Monday in what’s Cohen’s fourth day of testimony within the NY v. Trump case.
Cohen advised the court docket that he would pursue congressional workplace as a result of he has the “finest title recognition on the market.” He didn’t elaborate if he would run in New York, or if he would run as a Republican or Democrat.
Trump legal professional Todd Blanche pressed Cohen if his title recognition is because of Trump, sparking Cohen to elucidate that his well-known title is partly resulting from his work for Trump, however shouldn’t be due to Trump.
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Michael Cohen, then-President Trump’s former private legal professional and fixer, arrives at federal court docket for his sentencing listening to on Dec. 12, 2018. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Photographs)
“My title recognition is due to the journey I’ve been on,” Cohen mentioned.
His testimony in Manhattan court docket got here amid him additionally saying that he labored on pitching a TV present about himself, known as “The Fixer,” however that it has not but been picked up by a community.
Cohen has beforehand floated a possible congressional run, together with earlier this month on his TikTok account when he mentioned he would run as a Democrat, the Washington Submit reported.
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“I’m and there’s a large number of oldsters encouraging me to run,” Cohen mentioned of a possible congressional run final yr in feedback to Semafor.
He additionally beforehand ran as a Republican for New York Metropolis Council within the early 2000s, Spectrum Information beforehand reported. A Democrat defeated Cohen in his quest for the seat.
Michael Cohen is requested about taking an oath as he’s cross-examined by protection lawyer Todd Blanche throughout former President Trump’s legal trial on prices that he falsified enterprise information to hide cash paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court docket in New York Metropolis Could 16, 2024 on this courtroom sketch. (REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg )
Cohen is a disbarred legal professional who was sentenced to 3 years in jail in 2018 after he pleaded responsible to prices together with marketing campaign finance fraud and mendacity to Congress. Cohen’s testimony within the NY v. Trump case included him detailing final week that he additionally lied below oath to Decide William H. Pauley, who sentenced him to 3 years in jail.
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Former President Trump awaits the beginning of proceedings at Manhattan legal court docket on Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York Metropolis. (AP Picture/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)
Cohen has been slammed as a “grifter” by some critics and authorized consultants. Final week, a lawyer who previously suggested Cohen, Robert Costello, testified earlier than Congress that Cohen is a serial liar.
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NY v. Trump focuses on the prosecution staff making an attempt to show Trump falsified enterprise information 34 occasions to hide a $130,000 fee to former pornography star Stormy Daniels forward of the 2016 election to quiet her claims of an affair with Trump. Trump has pleaded not responsible within the case and has repeatedly denied any affair with Daniels.
Stormy Daniels is questioned by protection legal professional Susan Necheles throughout former President Trump’s legal trial on prices that he falsified enterprise information to hide cash paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court docket in New York Metropolis on Could 9, 2024 on this courtroom sketch. (REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg)
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Trump briefly addressed the media on Monday morning, when court docket began almost an hour sooner than its typical 9:30 a.m. begin time, when he slammed the case as one promoted by the Biden administration and Division of Justice forward of the 2024 election, and lamented that the trial has stored him from the marketing campaign path.
A CNN panel just lately agreed that the gag order positioned on former President Trump throughout his trial in New York ought to apply to the opposite trial witnesses. (Win McNamee/Pool by way of REUTERS)
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“It is an assault on [President Biden’s] political opponent. That is all it’s. All the belongings you noticed during the last 4 weeks, most of it ought to have by no means even been introduced up. After which on prime of that, there is not any crime. And we go on day after day. And I’ve to inform Iowa, ‘I am sorry, I will not be capable of make it.’ I inform New Hampshire, ‘Sorry, I will not be capable of make it. I am sitting in an ice field all day,'” he mentioned.
