Michael Cohen says he’ll leave country, change name if Trump wins

Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s ex-personal attorney, said Tuesday that he plans to flee the country if his former boss wins in November.

“I’m out of here. I mean, I’m already working on a foreign passport with a completely different name,” Cohen told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace when asked what he thinks will happen to him if Trump retakes the White House.

“I don’t know how it’s going to work, as far as dealing with my wife and my children,” he continued. “I certainly don’t want them moving to where I’m looking to go.”

The remarks came in a larger discussion about reporting from The New York Times describing some of the GOP nominee’s plans to prosecute his enemies if he returns to office. The Times named Cohen as someone who could be in the crosshairs.

Cohen has made his way to the top of Trump’s enemy list in recent years, a stark reversal from his previous role as the former president’s fixer.

The ex-attorney turned on his boss and served a three-year sentence after pleading guilty to federal campaign finance charges and other crimes. He maintains that he committed some of the crimes at Trump’s direction and testified to that effect as the star witness in the New York hush money case earlier this year.

The trial — centered on false business records related to a payment made around the 2016 election to silence a porn actor about her alleged affair with Trump years prior — returned a guilty verdict, making Trump the first sitting or former U.S. president to be convicted in a criminal case.

Cohen said he is not the only person who should fear repercussion if Trump returns to power.

“Yourself, the president of MSNBC, Gen. [Mark] Milley, you know, Liz Cheney. How many people has he turned around and said that this is — that these are people that I intend to go after if I have the ability to?” he said.

Cohen also lamented the recent Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, which he described as “the worst.”

“Now he thinks it’s, not only is it, ‘I can do whatever I want,’ but ‘I can’t even be prosecuted,’” Cohen said. “It’s a get-out-of-jail-free card solely for the president.”

The ruling determined that core presidential powers are immune from criminal prosecution, a victory for Trump amid his legal battles.