President Donald Trump’s former attorney refused to repeat earlier testimony he made when called to task about Trump’s criminality.
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Cohen was the star witness in New York prosecutors’ 2024 hush money case against Trump involving illegal use of money to buy a sex worker’s silence. This made Trump the first ever former president to become a convicted felon when he was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records to keep word of his affair with Stormy Daniels from public view.
Cohen later turned on his former boss, testifying that he lied and bullied for Trump during his years working for the Trump Organization. He even told reporters, among other things, that “there will never be another election again in America” if Trump is reelected.
Now, after years of lobbing additional criticism at his former employer, Cohen is set to become a radio interviewer with a Trump interview packed up and ready to play.
But Cohen ducked and ran for cover when CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked Cohen to repeat the claims he made before Congress about Trump.
“Let me just ask you, because you say that you haven’t forgotten the past. You testified under oath, obviously, that President Trump directed you to commit crimes. Do you stand by that?”
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“So let me say this. I will not discuss what I had said in the past, what I had stated under oath,” Cohen said quickly. “I will not go there simply because I want to live for the future. I refuse to be pulled back into yesterday’s news and yesterday’s headlines, so that a slew of people can turn around and start to try to pull it apart.”
Cohen added that he believes “there is forgiveness,” and admitted that prior to Trump taking office, “I did have a pardon application in with President Biden.”
The former lawyer confessed that he made the same request of Trump, after Tapper asked.
“What I did is I took that same application with the same documentation, and I just rewrote the cover letter, removing the name of president Joe Biden and inserting the name President Donald Trump,” Cohen said.
Cohen added that as of Thursday he had not received a response from the White House to his application.
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