(Miami) Donald Trump filed a complaint on Wednesday against his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, who became a witness for the prosecution in the case which earned the former president to be prosecuted by New York justice.
The Republican billionaire accuses Michael Cohen of having violated the professional secrecy and the confidentiality agreement which united them, and claims 500 million dollars in damages.
In his lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida, he claims the former attorney “disparaged him in books, podcasts, and public statements in order to gain money and notoriety.”
Michael Cohen, according to him, “revealed confidences” and “spread lies”, which “greatly damaged his image”.
Nicknamed “Donald Trump’s Pit Bull,” Michael Cohen once said he was ready to “take a bullet” for his boss.
Just before the 2016 presidential election, he had paid $ 130,000 out of his pocket to a porn star, Stormy Daniels, to keep quiet about a sexual relationship she said she had had with Donald Trump in 2016.
In January 2018, the Wall Street Journal revealed this transaction. At first, Michael Cohen had covered the president and assured never to have been reimbursed.
But the article had aroused the interest of justice. Surrounded by investigators, who had discovered tax fraud in his accounts, Michael Cohen had turned against Donald Trump. He had admitted to having received eleven checks to cover the costs incurred with the star of X.
However, these payments were recorded as “legal fees” in the accounts of the Trump Organization, which led to Donald Trump being charged on April 4 with 34 counts of “falsification accounting” by the New York justice.
Never before has a former president been criminally prosecuted in the entire history of the United States. Donald Trump, who dreams of winning back the White House in 2024, denounced a “political persecution”.
