Michael Cohen, former President Donald Trump's ex-lawyer, has vowed to leave the United States if his old boss defeats Vice President Kamala Harris in the November presidential election.
"I'm out of here," Cohen told MSNBC on Tuesday in response to a question about what he thinks will happen to him if Trump wins a second White House term. "I mean, I'm already working on a foreign passport with a completely different name."
"I don't know how it's going to work, as far as dealing with my wife and my children," he continued. "I certainly don't want them moving to where I'm looking to go."
Cohen's remarks were part of a larger discussion about a New York Times report that laid out the Republican nominee's plans to prosecute his political enemies if he is returned to office. According to the Times, Cohen is on Trump's list of adversaries.
In recent years, Cohen has gone from the former president's fixer to his arch-nemesis, turning on his ex-employer and testifying as a star witness for the prosecution in the New York business records trial earlier this year.
The now-disbarred attorney served a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to several federal charges, including lying to Congress and a bank and engaging in campaign finance violations.
Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the unprecedented New York case, which centered on a payment Cohen maintains was made at Trump's direction to porn star Stormy Daniels in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.
Cohen warned that he isn't the only person who should fear reprisal if Trump returns to the Oval Office in January.
"Yourself, the president of MSNBC, [former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] Gen. [Mark] Milley, you know, [former Rep.] Liz Cheney [R-Wyo.]," he said. "How many people has he turned around and said that these are people that I intend to go after if I have the ability to?"
The one-time Trump ally also denounced the recent Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity — which granted broad immunity to presidents for official acts in office — as "the worst."
"Now he thinks it's, not only is it, 'I can do whatever I want,' but 'I can't even be prosecuted,' " Cohen said. "It's a get-out-of-jail-free card solely for the president."
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