Donald J. Trump will throw everyone around him under the bus when prosecutors come for him, former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen said on Wednesday.
“I think Donald Trump is going to flip on all of them. What do you think about that? Including his children,” Cohen told MSNBC’s Joy Reid.
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday that her office’s civil investigation into the Trump Organization’s finances is now a criminal one.
“We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA,” James’ spokesman Fabien Levy told CNN. “We have no additional comment.”
Sarah Burris has a partial transcript at Raw Story:
“I really believe that Donald Trump is going to turn — you always get shocked when I say things, Joy,” Cohen continued. “I believe that Donald Trump cares for only himself. And he realizes his goose is cooked. When he turned around and gets questioned about what you were asking about, inflation. It wasn’t me. It was Allen. It was my accountant, it was the appraiser. It’s never Donald. This is the problem. It’s never, ever Donald Trump. It’s always somebody else. It wasn’t Donald Trump who had the affair. It wasn’t Donald Trump who directed me to make the payments to Stormy Daniels. It wasn’t Donald Trump who got the benefit of the relationship and the actions. It was Michael Cohen. I’m the bad guy. Why? Because I didn’t take the fall.”
He went on to anticipate that when the DA and AG begin asking questions about his taxes that Trump will simply say, “I don’t do my taxes. It’s my accountant.” He’ll turn on the accountant, say that Don Jr. handled something, even Ivanka or Melania handled it.
“He’s going to tell them to take everyone other than himself,” said Cohen.
But you knew that.
Pray for a hard rain.