Michael Cohen Describes 1 Of His ‘Biggest Fears’ About Trump Being Behind Bars

Michael Cohen says Donald Trump’s character and rising money owed make him harmful whether or not he’s within the White House or behind bars.

“We need to be very careful about him as a potential president, because he’s for sale. He needs to figure out where he’s going to raise 500 plus million dollars over a short period of time,” Cohen, Trump’s former private lawyer, stated on MSNBC Sunday.

A choose dominated final week that Trump owes greater than $350 million in damages over his yearslong fraudulent enterprise dealings in New York. In a separate case, he was ordered to pay author E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million after a New York jury discovered him answerable for defaming her a second time. Trump additionally has to pay his numerous legal professionals hundreds of thousands of {dollars} and nonetheless faces 4 prison trials.

Cohen steered {that a} cash-strapped Trump might promote delicate authorities data that he was aware about earlier than and after his presidency.

“One of the biggest fears I have about having Donald Trump behind bars is that he would sell this information for a bag of tuna or a book of stamps,” Cohen stated.

“He doesn’t care about America,” he continued. “And I say this not to be hyperbolic. I say this as fact, knowing him for as long as I’ve known him. He will sell that information to anyone, because he doesn’t care about anyone or anything other than himself. Plain and simple.”

Cohen is much from the primary to counsel Trump’s authorized money owed might have nationwide safety implications. Trump’s onetime nationwide safety advisor, John Bolton, for instance, stated Sunday that international autocrats might reap the benefits of Trump’s worsening monetary state of affairs, demonstrating “why Trump really is not fit for office.”

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