President Donald Trump, just after midnight, started ranting about his New York fraud conviction, which took place in early 2024 when he was out of office.
Per The Hill, Trump was reacting to his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, saying in an interview this week and in a Substack post earlier this year that he was pressured by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to “provide information that would be damaging to the president.” Cohen has not, however, “recanted” his testimony or stated that he lied under oath, at least not in the New York case.
Trump, on Truth Social, claimed that Cohen had.
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“When a Star Witness totally recants, and in every way reveals that he was pressured and coerced to give testimony, and when the Prosecutor admits that this Witness was the single reason that the case was brought, there was no other, how can that Case not be immediately dismissed?,” Trump said in the early-morning post. “That is exactly what happened in the Democrat New York Attorney General and Manhattan District Attorney’s Hoaxes against me. Michael Cohen has come out and unequivocally stated that the Radical Left Prosecutors, Tish James and Alvin Bragg, pressured and coerced him to testify against your favorite President, ME, when they made him the key player in their Political Witch Hunts.”
“Our Constitution, and the Rule of Law, demand immediate and swift dismissal, as well as for the Perpetrators of the Radical Left Lawfare and Weaponization to be held criminally responsible for their terrible misdeeds. We have to restore Confidence and Honor in our Justice System. I am an innocent man who has been horribly treated.,” Trump went on to say.
“It’s unclear how much begging and how many Truth Social tantrums it’ll take for anything Trump’s talking about here to actually happen. Cohen’s testimony—and the massive civil and criminal court losses that made Trump the very first felon in office—don’t just get “wiped away” because of a podcast,” the New Republic said in a story about the Truth Social post.
