'Presidency for life': Michael Cohen makes chilling prediction for second Trump term

Michael Cohen accurately predicted that Donald Trump would not accept an election defeat without a fight, and he made a chilling prediction about what a second presidency would bring.

Trump's former personal attorney will testify in Trump's upcoming trial in the New York hush money case involving porn actress Stormy Daniels, and Cohen recalled in an interview with Politico a prediction he made when testifying before Congress about criminal activity he undertook on behalf of the ex-president.

"In 2018, when I testified before the House Oversight Committee, I predicted before anybody that my biggest fear was that if Donald loses the 2020 election, that there will never be a peaceful transfer of power," Cohen said. "Those were my words in 2018. And sadly, it became a reality."

The former president has been indicted on multiple felony counts in federal court for his attempt to subvert his 2020 election loss, which culminated in the violent attack by his supporters Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol, and Cohen predicted an even greater assault on American democracy if his old boss wins a second term.

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"I’m going to give you my next prediction: If, God forbid a million times, Donald wins the election in 2024, there will never be another election again in America," Cohen said. "Because Donald believes, like Putin, that it doesn’t matter who you vote for; all that matters is who’s counting the vote. So there might be this impression of an election, but it will never be a legitimate election ever again. He has no intention of being another one-term president. This, for him, is presidency for life."

Cohen said he's not looking forward to testifying in Trump's trial, which begins Monday, and was only complying with a subpoena issued by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, but he promised his testimony would include surprising new evidence that could very well end with the former president's conviction.

"That’s up to the 12 jurors and of course, to the way that both prosecutors handle the case and defense is able to represent Trump on his position," Cohen said. "I can’t tell you what will happen or what won’t happen. I’m not the great Carnac; I don’t have the crystal ball."

"I don’t believe that Trump is going to win this election," he added. "I believe that as a result of his taking credit for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, he has angered a group of America — specifically women in America and those men that support women for women’s reproductive rights — and I think that that’s just one of the very stupid things that Trump, the GOP, MAGA, has done."