There are two things that Americans need to know about Michael Cohen, former personal attorney to Donald Trump: He doesn’t always tell the truth and he likes attention. At times those two traits play off one another in his personal life.
Now there is the fact that Cohen is no longer a fan of Donald Trump, ever since he was convicted of lying to Congress on the NYC business mogul’s behalf. From that day on, Cohen has been hoping to find some leniency for himself.
Since Trump is now settled in sunny Mar-a-Lago, Cohen is working hard to push some wild conspiracy theory about what the former President did or didn’t do during his last few hours in the White House.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Trump granted pardons to 73 individuals and commuted the sentences of an additional 70, including Steve Bannon and rapper Kodak Black. But his list did not include preemptive pardons for himself, his family or Giuliani.
Cohen told MSNBC host Alex Witt that he started to ponder why the former president didn’t issue pardons for himself, his children or Giuliani after “knowing Donald Trump for well over a decade.”
“I started thinking to myself it doesn’t really make sense because it’s not like Donald Trump, so what am I missing?” he said.
“I kind of think I figured it out,” he said. “I think Donald Trump actually has given himself the pardon. I think he also has pocket pardons for his children and for Rudy and it’s already stashed somewhere that, if and when they do get indicted and that there’s a criminal conviction, federal criminal conviction brought against him, that he already has the pardons in hand.”
Of course, after Cohen’s aforementioned run-in with the law, many can’t help but question Cohen’s character and wonder why anyone would listen to him at all.
