Trump biographer reveals the president would try to intimidate him like he manipulates witnesses

Investigative journalist and Donald Trump biographer David Cay Johnston recalled in a recent interview that the president would try to intimidate him the way he might be intimidating witnesses.

In a Monday interview with SiriusXMProgress host Dean Obeidallah, Johnston explained that allegations of "witness tampering" in Robert Mueller's investigation wouldn't be surprising.

"What Donald is doing here. He tried to 'muscle me' over the years and realized it doesn’t work," Johnston said. "So he would go to bosses to try and make trouble."

He went on to call Trump nothing more than a glorified "mob boss."

"He’s not the head of a family that kills people. He’s head of a family that steals with a pen," Johnston said. "It’s a white-collar crime family. His father ran a white-collar crime family…his grandfather was a pimp."

Instead of praising those who cooperate with law enforcement, Trump prefers to praise those who lie for him.

"To Donald people who refuse to cooperate with law enforcement, people who will lie and risk going to jail to protect the boss, those are the people he honors," Johnston said.

Trump tweeted that he would like to see his former "fixer" and attorney Michael Cohen "serve the maximum possible sentence," for throwing him under the bus.

"That may come back to haunt Trump after he’s out of office if he’s prosecuted for any of the many crimes he has committed that are still within the statute of limitations," Johnston warned.

Listen to the interview below: