{"id":5104,"date":"2026-08-20T22:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=5104"},"modified":"2026-08-20T22:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:07:07","slug":"michael-cohen-hides-when-cornered-about-trump-pushing-him-to-commit-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=5104","title":{"rendered":"Michael Cohen hides when cornered about Trump pushing him to commit crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump\u2019s former attorney refused to repeat earlier testimony he made when called to task about Trump\u2019s criminality.<\/p>\n

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Cohen was the star witness in New York prosecutors\u2019 2024 hush money case against Trump involving illegal use of money to buy a sex worker\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cthere will never be another election again in America\u201d if Trump is reelected.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

But Cohen ducked and ran for cover when CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked Cohen to repeat the claims he made before Congress about Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet 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?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo let me say this. I will not discuss what I had said in the past, what I had stated under oath,\u201d Cohen said quickly. \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cohen added that he believes \u201cthere is forgiveness,\u201d and admitted that prior to Trump taking office, \u201cI did have a pardon application in with President Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former lawyer confessed that he made the same request of Trump, after Tapper asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat 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,\u201d Cohen said.<\/p>\n

Cohen added that as of Thursday he had not received a response from the White House to his application.<\/p>\n

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