Former President Donald Trump's one-time attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, is convinced his former boss would not hesitate to throw him in prison on some spurious charge if he gets back in power.
Cohen, who recently testified against Trump in his civil fraud trial in New York, gave this prediction on CNN as the former president steps up his rhetoric against his political enemies, whom he calls "vermin" — and Cohen warned he isn't the only one who would be targeted.
"What do you make of this Washington Post report that Trump and his allies are looking at, if he becomes president again, to use the levers of government, the Justice Department to punish critics and opponents, and are you worried that he would target you?" asked anchor Jake Tapper.
"Well, 100 percent," said Cohen. "First of all, he already did. Dec. 14th, I'm going before the appellate court on the case of Michael Cohen v. the United States ... where he and Bill Barr, the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Prisons, that they conspired to infringe upon my First Amendment constitutional right, making me the very first political prisoner held by my own country, because I won't waive my First Amendment constitutional right, not publish my book Disloyal, and not do television appearances and not do media, et cetera. If anybody thinks that this is a one-off, if Donald Trump becomes President of the United States again, it is not just going to be me, being the very first person that this happened to, there is going to be a multitude of people, possibly yourself included, Jake."
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"Yeah, that has occurred to me," said Tapper. "But our Washington Post article they talk about John Kelly, Bill Barr, Ty Cobb, and General Mark Milley."
"I mean, he talked about executing Mark Milley," said Cohen. "Could you imagine, the man, a general who has given his life to serving and protecting this country as opposed to Captain Bone Spur, who avoided his responsibility, that he wants to have this man executed because he's angry at him? And then there are still Americans that want to do what? They want to support him both financially and by voting? I don't understand what is happening here."
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