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Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is contemplating a run for Congress.
The admission got here from the witness stand Monday on what’s his fourth day of testimony within the NY vs. Trump case.
Cohen informed the courtroom he would pursue a congressional place as a result of he has “one of the best identify recognition there may be.” He didn’t point out whether or not he would run for New York as a Republican or a Democrat.
Trump lawyer Todd Blanche pressed Cohen on whether or not his identify recognition is because of Trump, prompting Cohen to elucidate that his family identify is partly because of his work for Trump, however to not Trump.
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Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former private legal professional and fixer, arrives in federal courtroom for his sentencing listening to on December 12, 2018. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Pictures)
“I owe my identify recognition to the journey I’ve been on,” Cohen mentioned.
Throughout his testimony in courtroom in Manhattan, he additionally mentioned that he was within the means of pitching a TV present about himself referred to as “The Fixer,” however that it has not but been picked up by a community.
Cohen has beforehand introduced a doable run for Congress, together with earlier this month on his TikTok account when he mentioned he would run as a Democrat, the Washington Put up reported.
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“I’m and there are lots of people encouraging me to run,” Cohen informed Semafor final 12 months a few doable congressional run.
He additionally served as a Republican for the 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 if he took an oath as he’s questioned by protection legal professional Todd Blanche throughout former US President Donald Trump’s felony trial on fees that he falsified enterprise data to cover cash paid to movie porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 to silence, in Manhattan state courtroom in New York Metropolis, USA Might 16, 2024 on this courtroom sketch. (REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg)
Cohen is a disbarred lawyer who was sentenced to 3 years in jail in 2018 after pleading responsible to fees together with marketing campaign finance fraud and mendacity to Congress. In Cohen’s testimony within the NY versus Trump case final week, he mentioned that he additionally lied underneath oath to Decide William H. Pauley, who sentenced him to 3 years in jail.
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Former President Donald Trump awaits the beginning of proceedings on the Manhattan Legal Courtroom on Monday, April 22, 2024 in New York. (AP Picture/Yuki Iwamura, Swimming Pool)
Cohen has been labeled a “con artist” by some critics and authorized consultants. Final week, an legal professional who beforehand 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 group attempting to show that Trump falsified firm data 34 occasions to hide a $130,000 cost to former porn star Stormy Daniels forward of the 2016 election to cowl her claims of an affair with Trump suppress. Trump has pleaded not responsible within the case and has repeatedly denied any affair with Daniels.
Stormy Daniels is questioned by legal professional Susan Necheles throughout former US President Donald Trump’s felony trial on fees that he falsified enterprise data to cover cash paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan District Courtroom in New York Metropolis, USA, Might 9, 2024 on this courtroom sketch. (REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg)
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Trump briefly addressed the media Monday morning — as courtroom started practically an hour sooner than its traditional 9:30 a.m. begin time — the place he denounced the case as one promoted by the Biden administration and the Justice Division earlier than the 2024 election , and complained that the lawsuit has saved him off the marketing campaign path.
A CNN panel lately agreed that the gag order imposed on former President Trump throughout his trial in New York ought to apply to the trial’s different witnesses. (Win McNamee/Pool by way of REUTERS)
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“It’s an assault on President Biden’s political opponent. That is all. Every little thing you’ve got seen within the final 4 weeks, most of it ought to by no means have been introduced up. And apart from, there isn’t any crime. And we proceed day after day. And I’ve to inform Iowa, ‘I am sorry, I am not going to make it.’ “I am telling New Hampshire, ‘Sorry, I am not going to make it, I will be in ice cream all day,’” he mentioned.
