Overview
- Writing on Substack, Cohen said he felt “pressured and coerced” by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James to give testimony that would secure convictions against President Trump.
- Cohen alleged prosecutors relied on inappropriate leading questions to fit a predetermined narrative and said his cooperation was driven by hopes of sentence relief after his 2018 guilty plea and prison term.
- He testified in the New York attorney general’s civil fraud case that found Trump liable and in the Manhattan DA’s criminal case that produced a business-records guilty verdict.
- A three-judge federal appellate panel recently ordered renewed review of whether the hush-money case should be moved from state to federal court, directing U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein to revisit an earlier ruling.
- Trump quickly amplified Cohen’s assertions on Truth Social, while news outlets reported seeking comment from the prosecutors’ offices as the appeals process proceeds.