Donald Trump lashed out on social media Friday after his former personal attorney issued a shocking walk-back criticizing New York prosecutors involved in the president’s hush money case.
Trump swiftly responded after Michael Cohen published a Substack post titled “When Politics Blind Justice,” where he accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Leticia James of blurring the lines “between justice and politics” to boost their own profiles.
“I felt compelled and coerced to deliver what they were seeking,” Cohen wrote as he recounted his experiences with both offices.
Trump quickly seized the opportunity to amplify his former attorney's attacks on the prosecutors he has long targeted.
“These horrible Radical Left people, doing everything possible to destroy our Country, should pay a big price for this!” the president wrote Friday on his Truth Social platform. “It was a SET UP from the beginning. New York Courts, with many fair and wonderful Judges, are embarrassed by what has happened! We cannot let this pass.”
Trump is continuing to appeal his hush money conviction. An appellate panel recently instructed U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein to review his earlier ruling that kept the hush money case in state court instead of removing it to federal court.
