Geraldo Rivera ripped into Michael Cohen Friday during an appearance on “Fox & Friends,” calling President Donald Trump’s former lawyer “a serial manipulator and con man.”
“It seems like Michael Cohen is trying very hard to be the John Dean of the Trump White House,” Rivera said. “He wants to be the king rat, the chief snitch who takes down Donald Trump.”
Cohen, who earlier this week was sentenced to three years in prison for financial crimes, lying to Congress and two campaign finance violations, on Friday told ABC News Trump directed him to pay off two women during the presidential election because he was concerned about how their stories “would affect the election.”
The women, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, said they had affairs with Trump.
“I knew what I was doing was wrong,” Cohen said. “I stood up before the world [Wednesday] and I accepted the responsibility for my actions.”
Rivera called Cohen, “the president's worst nightmare.”
“I thank goodness that a sitting president cannot be indicted,” he added. “It is pretty clear that Michael Cohen is on a mission to take down the president.”
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