New Lawyer for Michael Cohen Takes Aim at Trump and Rudy Giuliani

Let’s continue to follow the drama unfolding, in regards to former attorney and “fixer” for Donald Trump, Michael Cohen.

Cohen once said he’d take a bullet for Donald Trump, but since his home and office space was raided by federal authorities in April, with a dozen electronic devices confiscated and millions of documents, it would seem reality has kicked in and Cohen is not feeling the love from his former client.

In fact, President Trump likely helped tighten the noose on Cohen when he suggested he did know about the payment ($130,000) made in 2016 to former Trump mistress, Stormy Daniels – after Cohen had insisted that Trump knew nothing about it.

That unfortunate business has Cohen on the hook for bank fraud and violations of campaign finance law, although, he has yet to be formally charged.

At least he and Ms. Daniels have dropped the charade of there being no affair.

Last week, Cohen sat for an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. He further sparked the notion that he was done being Donald Trump’s doormat when he insisted that his first loyalty was to his family and his country.

Not only that, but he went directly against President Trump by insisting that the work being done by special counsel Robert Mueller was not a “witch hunt,” and agreed with the U.S. intelligence community that Russia had, in fact, attempted to interfere in the 2016 election.

Also interesting to note, Michael Cohen’s legal team ended a joint defense agreement with Trump’s lawyers.

Cohen recently added former adviser to President Bill Clinton, Lanny Davis, to his legal team, and from the looks of it, the strategy is to come out swinging.

On Sunday, Trump lawyer, Rudy Giuliani made reference to Michael Cohen.

“Michael Cohen should cooperate with the government. We have no reason to believe he did anything wrong,” Giuliani said on ABC’s “This Week.” “I have no concerns that Michael Cohen is going to do anything but tell the truth.”

It seems so subtle and probably isn’t a signal of anything.

Davis, who currently works as a legal crisis manager, fired back.

“Did @rudygiuliani really say on Sunday shows that @michaelcohen212should cooperate with prosecutors and tell the truth?” tweeted Davis. “Seriously? Is that Trump and Giuliani definition of  ‘truth’? Trump/Giuliani next to the word ‘truth’ = oxymoron. Stay tuned. #thetruthmatters.”

Again, we can’t be sure what Michael Cohen’s thought process is, right now, but that came across as rather harsh.

Davis further stated:

“Michael Cohen deserves to tell his side of the story — subject, of course to the advice of counsel,” Davis, who served as White House special counsel under Clinton, said in a statement to The New York Times.

In the same week that Davis was hired as part of Cohen’s legal team, over one million of the documents seized by the FBI in the raid on his home, hotel, and office were made available to the prosecutors in the case.

Other news is that Cohen has been telling friends that he doesn’t foresee any sort of pardon, should the time come, from President Trump.

Self-preservation is a powerful incentive, and it looks as if Cohen is prepared to do all it takes to make things easy on himself.

Did @rudygiuliani really say on Sunday shows that @michaelcohen212 should cooperate with prosecutors and tell the truth? Seriously? Is that Trump and Giuliani definition of “truth”? Trump/Giuliani next to the word “truth” = oxymoron. Stay tuned. #thetruthmatters

— Lanny Davis (@LannyDavis) July 9, 2018