Former federal prosecutor Elliot Williams told MSNBC on Monday that Michael Cohen's sentencing memo shows that 'the walls are closing in' on the entire Trump organization and family.
"What the sentencing memo does is lay out a number of circumstance, things that Cohen has done in furtherance of lying on behalf of Trump," Williams said, adding that "things don't look good" for the president's former fixer. "What we're seeing here comes down to loyalty, how much individuals and how far they're going to stick their necks out to protect the president."
Williams took pains to remind host Stephanie Ruhle not to put too much stock in Cohen's story.
"We should know that everybody in the president's orbit seems to have a history of willing to stretch the truth or lie or fabricate facts on his behalf," he said. "So I'd be reluctant to rush to getting behind Michael Cohen as sort of our savior here."
But, Elliot added, "it is pretty clear he's got the goods and has come with the receipts on all of these investigations," saying Cohen would have information about Trump's taxes, criminal liabilities, and payoffs to his various mistresses. "It's clear, I would think, the walls are closing on the Trump organization and the Trump family."
"We'll continue to see what Mueller is laying out in these docs that are getting increasingly detailed and providing more and more facts," he concluded.
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