Jay Goldberg, a longtime lawyer for Donald Trump, told CNN's Erin Burnett Thursday that he expects Michael Cohen will flip on the president because he's afraid of what might happen in prison.
"He's not suited to stand up to the rigors of jail life," Goldberg said. "Michael doesn't see himself walking down Broadway while people are clamoring, 'you're going to be my wife.' And so, he is under pressure from his family to try to figure out what it would take to bring the government aboard as his sponsor."
Burnett noted that it sounds as if Goldberg believes Cohen did do something wrong that could be considered criminal.
"I don't say that the government has importuned him to say certain things that are not true," he said. "But a witness in Michael's position is able to glean what it would take to get a letter of cooperation from the government and thereby avoid a lengthy prison term. The record is clear. It corrupts the system, said one important federal judge that witnesses under a threat of going to jail for a long period of time generally try to conform their conduct in such a way that they can earn what's known as a 5k-1 letter."
Goldberg even said that he told Cohen this and that he said he understood.
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