Michael Cohen is back.
The disbarred lawyer has spent a lifetime marketing his curious skill set: a moral and ethical flexibility that allows him to do things that others would find revolting. A legal thug who threatened students, journalists, and others on behalf of his former client. He then turned against Trump to cut a deal for himself after being criminally charged for fraudulent conduct. He has now turned against the New York prosecutors who sought to rehabilitate him to prosecute Trump.
For full disclosure, I have been a critic of Cohen for years, dating back to his time as a thug for Donald Trump, when I chastised the New York bar for failing to act against him. While the media once despised Cohen, he became a darling of the press when he turned against Trump.
Cohen’s North Star has always been pure, unadulterated self-interest. Neither loyalty nor decency has deterred Cohen from making false statements or serving the interests of his changing patrons.
His conduct as an attorney was a disgrace to the bar for years, as he gamed the system for his own benefit. Michael Cohen was long known as the “fixer” for former President Trump — a legal thug who threatened students, journalists, and others on behalf of his former client.
His signature has been to threaten lawsuits against critics. He even sued Trump and failed.
When his fraudulent business conduct led to criminal charges, it was clear that he was again entertaining best offers. Cohen reinvented himself as a redemptive sinner and received financial support from Trump critics.
Throughout this process and after his conviction, he continued to be accused of lying.
He claimed urgent medical needs for release from prison. Of course, he previously claimed health problems for failing to appear to testify, only to be spotted out on the town for a fancy dinner.
During the Trump trial, Cohen was again accused of lying. He spent two days insisting that he had been a liar but had lied to help former President Donald Trump.
Cohen has lied to Congress, courts, special counsels, the IRS, the banks, and virtually every creature that walks or crawls on the face of the Earth.
Notably, his past convictions for business and tax fraud were not taken in Trump’s interest but in his own. When he admitted on the stand that he lied during his prior plea agreement, it was to advance his own interests.
Cohen has now continued this pattern of shifting loyalties and turned on New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, accusing them of pressuring him to frame his testimony to guarantee Trump’s conviction.
After Trump’s recent court victories and the remanding of his federal case, Cohen is claiming that the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and the New York Attorney General’s Office “pressured and coerced” him into tailoring testimony: “I felt pressured and coerced only to provide information and testimony that would satisfy the government’s desire to build the cases against and secure a judgment and convictions against President Trump.”
The posting led some to speculate that Cohen is again marketing his availability to the highest bidder. Whatever the reason, his statement clearly undermines his former allies as they struggle to preserve what remains of their prior prosecutions.
Cohen remains the personification of the old fable of the scorpion and frog. In the fable, a scorpion convinced a leery frog to carry him across a river, noting that he could not sting him since they would both drown. Halfway across, the scorpion struck, and the frog asked why he would doom them both. The scorpion replied, “I am sorry, but I couldn’t resist the urge. It’s in my nature.”
James and Bragg just felt that all-too-familiar sting from Michael Cohen.
There have always been Cohens. Nothing new under the sun.
Cohen sounds like a reincarnation of Titus Oates.
OT: a proposal for the purchase of Greenland:
1. The price is defined by reference to the difference between Denmark’s defense expenditure of 2% v 5% of GDP for x years;
2. Proceeds to be used by Denmark to buy US-manufactured weapons; and
3. The weapons purchased may be sold by Denmark to other NATO countries or provided to Ukraine.
Would seem to accomplish a lot of US objectives and might win over Denmark and NATO.
Off Topic: Civil Procedure (conflict of interest)
Defendant in Charlie Kirk’s killing asks judge to disqualify prosecutors
PROVO, Utah (AP) — The Utah man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk returned to court Friday, as his attorneys sought to disqualify prosecutors because the daughter of a deputy county attorney involved in the case attended the rally where Kirk was shot.
Defense attorneys say the relationship represents a conflict of interest after prosecutors said they intend to seek the death penalty for Tyler Robinson.
By: Hanna Schoenbaum and Matthew Brown – AP ~ January 16, 2026
https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-tyler-robinson-hearing-187d3d4f1b2166232f9d2362001074d5
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A prosecutor’s child witnessed Charlie Kirk’s assassination — can he take part in the case?
Defense argues conflict of interest exists because prosecutor’s relative was present during assassination
PROVO, Utah — Defense attorneys for the Utah electrician accused of assassinating Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk want the Utah County Attorney’s Office disqualified from handling the case because a member of the prosecution team had an adult child who was present for the murder.
By: Michael Ruiz , Adriana James-Rodil , Stepheny Price – Fox News ~ January 16, 2026
https://www.foxnews.com/us/prosecutors-child-witnessed-charlie-kirk-assassination-can-he-take-part-case
Defining the left = lies and deception.
Defining the right = ignorant and hateful. Margot is the perfect example. As usual.
The stooge’s stooge reveals him/her/itself again!
A SNAKE does not care who it bites! Instinct is hard to overcome – sleazebag snake.
Your comment insults snakes.
Contrary to the films Pulp Fiction and Michael Clayton, “fixers” are just crooked lawyers who are too stupid to make an honest living. Hollywood lionizes these clowns because Hollywood is constantly in need of their services.
And people like you pay to see those films. How would you otherwise know the plots?
Certainly you can’t be relied on for any plot. Yours is a life of painting by numbers!
Turley has taken great pains here to illustrate what has long been obvious to anyone with a functioning brain – that Michael Cohen and his ilk are responsible for the adage:”How do you know when a lawyer is lying? His lips are moving”. Perhaps he should have devoted more of this column to the subject of how to get lawyers’ associations to do better policing and censuring of their their members, than in the minute repetition of Cohen’s transgressions. I guess that most lawyers (evidently including Turley) don’t want any effective limitations imposed on their latitude to lie under any circumstances whotsoever.
Is it reasonable to expect lawyers’ associations to police their own when we already joke that lawyers lie when their lips are moving? If that’s the case, why would we trust the association’s word any more than the individual lawyer’s?
Accountability shouldn’t depend on insider assurances but on observable actions and consequences. And if the public cannot tell truth from falsehood without a guild interpreting it for us, then the problem runs far deeper than any one lawyer.
Michael Cohen is broke, and probably living off of his Wife & Father-in-Laws wealth.
Michael Cohen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, …. et.al. Played Ball and lost The Game.
Mikey couldn’t get a job at Hotdog-On-A-Stick at the Mall’s Food Court, yet alone at any Judicial Court.
“… The posting led some to speculate that Cohen is again marketing his availability to the highest bidder. …” -JT
You’ve got to hand it to him, He’s inventive to say the least in trying to drum-up some business. He’s also spooked like the rest of Us with the “Fear of Z-Mamdani”. But, the Kid still wants to Play Ball.
AI: ( Michael Cohen New York City Taxi Cab License )
Michael Cohen: Owned 10 New York City taxi medallions, the licenses needed to operate yellow cabs, which he leased to drivers for income but faced scrutiny for tax evasion related to this business and eventually had the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission (TLC) move to revoke them after his guilty plea in 2018, as he had hidden income, and the city deemed his conviction grounds for license forfeiture, leading to a deadline to sell them.
Key Details:
Ownership: Cohen owned 10 taxi medallions, purchasing them as investments and leasing them out.
Business Model: He profited by leasing these medallions to operators, who then paid him.
Investigation & Plea: His taxi business became part of a federal investigation, leading to his guilty plea in August 2018 for tax evasion and bank fraud, stemming from hiding over $1.3 million in taxi income.
Revocation Threat: Following his plea, the TLC notified Cohen that they intended to revoke his 10 medallions, as his conviction was grounds for forfeiture under city regulations.
Deadline to Sell: Cohen was given a deadline (around September 10, 2018) to sell the licenses before they were officially revoked.
Medallion Value: The value of taxi medallions had plummeted by this time due to ride-sharing services, meaning Cohen likely lost millions on his investment.
Companies: He owned the medallions through various shell corporations, including Golden Child Hacking Corp. and Mad Dog Cab Corp..
Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To Eight Counts, Including Criminal Tax Evasion And Campaign Finance Violations
By: U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York ~ August 21, 2018
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/michael-cohen-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-eight-counts-including-criminal-tax
Michael Cohen is broke, and probably living off of his Wife & Father-in-Laws wealth. … not a bad gig. And you? Still toiling in your factory job?
This is a textbook example of the Jersey Flip test I lay out in Awakening a Forgotten Republic.
Take the messenger. Flip the jersey. If Michael Cohen were saying the exact same thing in service of the opposite side, would you dismiss it instantly as the ramblings of a serial liar? If the answer is yes, then your current acceptance has nothing to do with truth and everything to do with alignment.
Civic literacy demands this discipline. Self-government requires citizens who can separate evidence from allegiance, credibility from convenience. When we only believe a known liar after he puts on our jersey, we have failed the most basic test of independent judgment.
The Jersey Flip is not about changing sides. It is about exposing bias. If flipping the jersey flips your standards, then your standards were never principled to begin with.
Congratulations on the book, Olly! It will be a good read here in snowy Upstate New York.
And I am sure that both James and Bragg, with straight faces, will both argue that since Cohen is a proven liar, he shouldn’t be believed, while neither had a problem with him when the lies were directed at Trump.
Who knows the back story here. Perhaps, James promised Cohen his law license back if he testified against Trump, and then reneged. When it comes to morals, many in NY seems to have forgotten them completely.
Just NY huh?
Show us your morals and ethics anon commenter?
“To whom do lions cast their gentle looks?
Not to the beast that would usurp their den.
The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,
And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood”
This guy is a Loki wannabe, without Loki’s talent to screw up the story in Asgard.
Really? Get a life.
IMPEACH SOULLESS KRISTI NOEM NOW
Random senseless comment.
Random senseless comment.
The Dems will no proclaim that Cohen is a known liar and can’t be trusted, haha.
What’s genuinely fascinating is that out of eight billion people on the planet, someone like this manages to remain even marginally newsworthy. A man with a career built on deceit somehow keeps being treated as a source rather than a warning.
The lesson is older than politics. The boy who cried wolf wasn’t ignored because people were cruel or inattentive, but because credibility, once squandered, does not regenerate. Yet here we are, pretending that repeated falsehoods can be redeemed by convenience.
When a habitual liar tells a story that flatters a preferred cause, skepticism vanishes. The wolf is suddenly real again, not because the messenger has changed, but because the audience wants to believe him.
These stories persist not because the liar is persuasive, but because human nature is predictable. We don’t elevate them because they deserve attention. We elevate them because they tell us what we want to hear.
When a habitual liar tells a story … just like you silly commenter.
What were they doing in the first place? Oh, they were trying to MANIPULATE a witness. The former District Attorney of Santa Barbara County, California IS ACTUALLY A CRIMINAL and I CAN PROVE IT! Joyce Dudley TOOK MILLIONS IN SETTLEMENTS from MEXICAN MAFIA CARTEL OPERATIVES in 2019 INSTEAD of prosecuting anyone and it was ALL DONE IN SECRET regarding the Biggest Illegal Cannabis BUST in HISTORY by Volume at 1807 West Highway 246 near Buellton, CA. That ROGUE CRIMINAL took over $4 Million Dollars into secret bank accounts. That stings. Dirty Cops are many times worse than criminals, actually. 🤬
Great another Soap show.
With respect to Cohen and New York Dirty Prosecutors—They were BORN in the SAME SWAMP!
Or sponsored for election with funds from George Soros.
Go ahead and deny trump and his sycophants are fascists all you want. When you do this you are admitting you are also a fascist.
This is wrong. When this is over and done, hopefully as soon as January 2027, trump and all his supporters will have a lot of crow to eat.
“Nebraska mom Jamie Bonkiewicz filmed her interaction with Secret Service agents who came to her door because of a tweet.
“The Secret Service came to my door today because of a tweet. No threats. No violence. Just words. That’s where we are now,” she wrote on X in a thread about the ordeal.”
STOP troll 🧌 you are NOTHING but some PARTISAN panty-wagger! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP is ACTUALLY the Best President our Country has ever had! With ALL THE BILLIONS LOST TO FRAUD and WASTE of the LIBERAL/PROGRESSIVES in California—LED BY NEWSCUM—We NEEEEEED Trump in #California more than anything else! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
You’re the perfect example of horse shite.
If I am a fascist, I cannot even fathom what you and your fellow mindless minions are. Haha, no thanks on the crow, I prefer cornish hens in January.
Humor knows no bounds