President Trump wrote on Truth Social that Michael Cohen fully recanted his testimony against him. It’s not clear if he has done so formally. However, President Trump has said it directly to Cohen, and he didn’t say “no.” Cohen has publicly stated that he felt “pressured and coerced” to testify as he did.
Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, was the only witness in the cooked-up New York City case against President Trump.
The entire trial was fraudulent. The judge was biased, and his daughter profited off of it. Judge Juan Merchan practically told the jury to find Trump guilty. The jury was allowed to consider three concocted crimes in finding President Trump guilty.
Juan abused the few witnesses for the defense he allowed.
The Stormy Daniels Fake Hush Money Case
This is the case concocted by Soros DA Alvin Bragg, claiming Trump committed 34 felonies by signing for a payment to Stormy Daniels with his own money as a legal expense 34 times on 34 pieces of paperwork.
Judge Merchan instructed the jurors that they could look at three specific “unlawful means” categories to determine those unlawful actions, and they did not have to unanimously agree on which specific one applied, as long as they all agreed an unlawful method was used:
- Violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA): Conspiring or acting to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election through contributions or expenditures.
- Falsification of other business records: Hiding the scheme by making or causing false entries in other corporate books, ledgers, or bank records.
- Violations of tax laws: Submitting or causing the submission of false information on tax filings or mischaracterizing the payments (such as hiding personal reimbursements as deductible legal retainers).
There was no underlying crime. It is a case built on an invented underlying crime that was unnamed throughout the trial, so Trump couldn’t adequately defend against it. The Judge even denied Donald Trump his right to some key witnesses.
Trump was convicted of signing off on the same funds given to the hooker/stripper Stormy Daniels as a legal expense. He signed 34 documents. It was one fake crime, but Bragg creatively turned it into 34 felonies. The sign-off, were it true, would have been only one misdemeanor.
Trump used his personal funds, and one of the crimes that jurors considered was campaign finance. The only problem is that no campaign money was used.
The prosecutor claimed there was a “criminal conspiracy.” So what was the “criminal conspiracy” that Trump was trying to “cover up” with his falsification of business records? Allegedly, trying to “steal” the presidential election.
No one cared that the Hunter Biden laptop was hidden from the public before the election or that 51 former and current spies lied and said the laptop was probably Russian disinformation.
They even took Donald Trump’s free speech away. Everyone involved could talk except him and his lawyer. It was a kangaroo court.
Professor Turley weighed in.
Jonathan Turley said at the time that the conviction can be expunged if Trump wins on appeal. He said Trump has a very good case, especially considering the ‘layers of error’ under Judge Juan Merchan.
“The fact is that this is not a criminal case, in my view, because there is no underlying crime. Bragg took a dead misdemeanor, zapped it back into life as this pile of felonies.
“And he was only able to do that by this enabling judge,” he concluded.
President Trump wrote the following on Truth Social:
I am pleased to report that Michael Cohen, the Prosecution’s Star Witness and, in actuality, only Witness in the New York State Attorney General and Manhattan DA Witch Hunt Cases brought against me, has just fully RECANTED his testimony.
He was “pressured” and “coerced” to say things that were not true. I would like to thank Michael for having the Wisdom and Courage to step forward and do the right thing!
His Act of Bravery is a Great Credit to the Justice System in New York City and State. I am sure it was not easy for him! Now we are asking that any remnant of those Politically Weaponized Cases against me be immediately terminated and dismissed.
Their Star Witness said everything they did was WRONG and UNLAWFUL! Letitia James and Alvin Bragg broke the Law in order to do this in order to prevent me from becoming the President of the United States. Such a thing can never be allowed to happen again! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP”
The MAGAs the left likes to condemn and mock were right about this and most everything,