Speaking with MSNBC host Katie Phang, former Donald Trump “fixer” Michale Cohen predicted the former president will try to create some kind of scene when he appears in Manhattan on Tuesday to be arraigned on criminal charges.
With the former president expected to turn himself in for fingerprinting and a mug shot, as well as an appearance before a judge, host Phang asked if Trump would attempt to make it look like he is being victimized while being arrested.
“Michael, I have to ask, knowing him as well as you do, what are you expecting to see happen on Tuesday?” host Phang asked. “In some ways, it’s going to be a little bit of a controlled environment because he is going to have his Secret Service flanking him. But do you think he is going to try to make some type of public spectacle to achieve some type of martyrdom on Tuesday when he shows up for his arraignment?”
“Whatever option does he have?” Cohen shot back. “To walk in like the loser coward that he is? To walk in like the man who has divided and is trying to destroy our country?”
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“I mean, he is going to make this appearance that he is as tough as nails and that it is not bothering him and that he is taking this all in stride as part of the witch hunt as part of the radical left looking to take him out of the presidential race because, he of course, being the frontrunner of the Republican party despite how sad that is.”
“That this is all the radical left and that he has to play that same card over and over again, otherwise what is he supposed to do cry?” he continued before adding, “Cry in front of the people, which is probably what he wants to do?”
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