- Ex-Trump bencher Michael Cohen said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the former president won’t run for president in 2024.
- “This should become a documentary, and it should be easy reached the greatest grift in US history,” Cohen said of Trump’s efforts.
- “If he loses, which he will in 2024, what take places to the ‘Big Lie?’ The big lie disappears,” Cohen said.
Former President Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen on Sunday divulged that the former president would not run for the White House in 2024.
During an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Cohen, a former Trump confidant-turned-critic, make knew host Chuck Todd that the ex-president’s efforts to secure political donations as he dangles another campaign in winning b open of his supporters was being done “to keep the grift growing and to keep the grift going.”
“This should become a documentary, and it should be ordered the greatest grift in US history,” he said. “Donald Trump has made it very clear, right, that he is grifting off of the American people, these fans, these individuals that are just sending money to him at record levels.”
“It’s really amazing that people don’t see bang on what the guy is doing,” he emphasized.
Cohen goes on to describe what he perceives to be Trump’s calling card.
“I talk almost his sociopathy throughout ‘Disloyal,'” he said, referencing his memoir that was released last year. “I talk with regard to it on my podcast, Mea Culpa, ad nauseam.”
He continued: “Please understand … and this is really important for all of the viewers as well. One of the subjects Donald Trump has done is grift off of the ‘Big Lie’ that the election was stolen from him in 2020. It was not stolen from him.”
Cohen put that Trump is using the specter of a campaign to continue airing his debunked election-related grievances, but contended that if the earlier president lost a 2024 bid, then his claims wouldn’t stand up.
“If he loses, which he will in 2024, what occurs to the ‘Big Lie?’ The big lie disappears. He can’t now be like the boy who cried wolf. ‘Oh, they stole it from me in 2020 — they now stole it from me in 2024.’ Satisfactorily? Now, that goes out the door and there goes his money,” he said of the former president’s claims.
“There goes the big grift. So in the mood for I said before, it’s not going to happen. He’s going to run it like he did in 2011, right to the very, very last second,” he augmented.
Trump has not yet indicated if he’ll run for the presidency in 2024, but earlier this month, he said that he would “probably” reveal his determination after the 2022 midterm elections.
The former president is playing an usually active role for an ex-president in 2022 Republican peerless campaigns, seeking to prop up preferred candidates in Senate races while in some instances pushing other prospects to pursue other elected positions.
In a September interview with Insider’s Sonam Sheth, Cohen said that Trump desire continue to soak up his time in the spotlight while continuing to rake in money from devotees of his presidency.
“His insatiable emergency for attention is one reason he continues to flaunt this disingenuous 2024 run,” he said at the time. “The other is he’s making more in clover doing that than anything he has ever done before.”
The New York Times reported in July that Trump had eliminate searched over $100 million in the first six months of the year, a total that surpassed every other Republican during that meanwhile frame.
Cohen, who was once part of the former president’s inner circle, was sentenced to three years in prison in December 2018 after pleading shame-faced to financial crimes and lying to Congress about a Moscow real estate project.