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Michael Cohen Weighs In On Trump’s Executive Orders: ‘He Already Owns The Libs’
Disgraced attorney Michael Cohen, who served as the pivotal witness in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s dubious “hush money” case against President Donald Trump, stated that Trump “already owns the libs” during an appearance on Jim Acosta’s “My Knee Won’t Bend” podcast.
Cohen — who had previously threatened to leave the country if Trump won re-election in November — was brought on to discuss the president’s string of executive orders and efforts to reform the federal government. At one point during the segment, Acosta pointed to a recent Truth Social post in which President Trump quoted Napoleon Bonaparte, writing, “He who saves his country violates no law.”
“Well, I think what he’s doing at this point in time is he’s taking the Supreme Court decision, which was presidential immunity, and he’s even expanding it further,” Cohen said, offering an incorrect interpretation of the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity for official White House acts.
“But this is not a joke and nobody should take it as just some sort of, ‘let’s own the libs.’ He already owns the libs,” the former attorney continued. Let’s be clear about something. While Democrats and Libs and whoever else that they want to say are out there and they’re trying to on a regular basis denigrate Trump, you know, they make all these statements about him. Let me be very clear. That’s not the way to beat Donald Trump. All right. So not in the slightest. What basically you’re doing there, the whole art of trying to denigrate somebody like Trump, it doesn’t work,” he continued before pointing to Trump’s record-high approval numbers.
Cohen, who was convicted of perjury and fraud in cases with no relation to the former president, recently walked back his threats to leave the country if Trump was re-elected. “I’m out of here. I’m already working on a foreign passport with a completely different name. I don’t know how it is going to work as far as dealing with my wife and my children. I certainly don’t want them moving to where I’m looking to go,” he told MSNBC back in September.
Cohen’s testimony was critical to securing 34 felony convictions against the former president, but earlier this week Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan let it be known that he was considering a dismissal of the case on the grounds of presidential immunity. Cohen, now consigned to live-streaming for cash, may soon have nothing to show for his cooperation with Democratic District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
He was previously sentenced to three years in federal prison for concealing income while working on Trump’s behalf. He was disbarred by the state of New York and in 2021 emerged from prison as a caustic anti-Trumper, publishing a tell-all memoir about his time as the top enforcer for the Trump Organization. The president-elect has accused Cohen of being a liar and disgruntled former employee. He maintains that the payment to Daniels was protected by immunity as an official act during his first term.
