In a recent interview, Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s personal lawyer and “fixer,” played down a question about how his former boss would react to Republicans attending last week’s Democratic National Convention.
“I don’t care what he thinks.” Cohen said: “This isn’t about him,” CNN reporter Jim Acosta said Thursday on the final day of the convention in Chicago.
Cohen, who has emerged as one of the former president’s most outspoken critics, posed for selfies with people as he arrived at the Chicago convention and, in an interview, reminded Acosta that this was not his first time at the Democratic National Convention.
“This is not my first time at the Democratic Convention, which is a big mistake people make,” he said. “I’ve been a Democrat almost my whole life.”
The former lawyer who gained attention in President Trump’s New York hush-money lawsuit added that people are trying to make “everything” about the former president and his feelings.
“I don’t care about his feelings,” Cohen said. “What I care about is that there’s going to be a big blue wave in November, not just sweeping over Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, but sweeping over every member of Congress.”
Cohen was not the only former Trump ally or Republican to attend the Democratic Convention.
Harris’ campaign strategically sought to involve anti-Trump Republicans at the convention, where she formally accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, with former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) and former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham among those trying to warn voters of the dangers of a second Trump term.
“Trumpism is fascism and we must eradicate it from our political system or we will lose our democratic republic,” Cohen told Acosta.
He also referenced the Harris campaign’s now infamous catchphrase: “We’re not going back to Trump-era politics.”
“2016-2020 was a very tumultuous and chaotic time in American history, and the question is, do we want to go back to those times?,” Cohen said. “Of course, when Kamala speaks, people start screaming, ‘We’re not going back.'”
“Why would you want to live in chaos? Why would you want to live in the chaos that this man brings?,” he continued. “I know him, and he says, pray to God a million times, if he wins the 2024 election now, there will never be another election.”
