Michael Cohen was Trump’s consummate inside man. Now, friends say he’s on the stand and at risk
by Kelly Rissman
May 12, 2024
4 minutes
Michael Cohen was once so close to Donald Trump that he “would take a bullet for” him.
In the seven years since professing this unwavering loyalty, the former lawyer and “fixer” has suffered his own very public downfall and criminal conviction, and is now recast as star witness in the Manhattan district attorney’s hush money case against the former president.
It is a role that Cohen both relishes — as reformed “truth-teller” who enthusiastically pulls back the curtain on the alleged murky dealings of Trump world — and reviles.
Some of those close to Cohen recently told that he faces significant
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