Michael Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis says his client will “never accept” a pardon from his former boss, President Donald Trump.
“I know that Mr. Cohen would never accept a pardon from a man who he considers to be both corrupt and a dangerous person in the Oval Office,” Davis, speaking with NPR Wednesday morning said. “He has flatly authorized me to say under no circumstances would he accept a pardon from Mr. Trump, who used the pardon power in a way that no president in American history has ever used a pardon—to relieve people of guilt who committed crimes who are political cronies of his.”
President Trump “not only directed a crime, he’s part of a cover up,” Davis said adamantly.
On Tuesday Cohen appeared in federal court and revealed that he committed crimes at the direction of a “federal candidate for office,” which is assumed to be Trump.
Tuesday night Davis spoke with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, and delivered another bombshell.
“Mr. Cohen has knowledge on certain subjects that should be of interest and he’s more than happy to tell the special counsel all that he knows,” Davis said, adding, “not just about the obvious possibility of a conspiracy to collude and corrupt the American democratic system,” but also about his “knowledge about the computer crime of hacking and whether or not Mr. Trump knew ahead of time,” as USA Today reports.