Cohen on how Trump likely felt about Republicans at DNC: ‘I don’t really care’
Michael Cohen, an ex-personal attorney and “fixer” for former President Trump, in a recent interview brushed off a question about how his former boss would react to Republicans' appearances at the Democratic National Convention this past week.
“I don’t really care what he’s thinking," Cohen told CNN’s Jim Acosta Thursday, the final day of the convention in Chicago. "This isn’t about him."
Cohen, who has emerged as one of the most outspoken critics of the former president, arrived at the convention in the Windy City and took selfies with people. He also reminded Acosta in the interview that it wasn't his first Democratic National Convention.
"It's not my first Democratic convention that I have ever been at. This is a massive mistake that is regularly made by people," he said. "I have been a Democrat virtually my entire life."
The former attorney, who was thrust into the spotlight during Trump's New York hush money case, added that people try to make "everything" about the former president and his feelings.
“I don’t care about his feelings,” Cohen said. “What I care about is seeing a big, gigantic blue wave come November and not just for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz but the entire down ballot.”
Cohen wasn’t the only former Trump ally or Republican to make an appearance at the Democratic convention.
The Harris campaign sought to strategically involve anti-Trump Republicans in the convention, where she formally accepted the Democratic nomination for president. Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham and others attempted to warn voters of the dangers of a second Trump term.
“Trumpism is fascism, and we must eradicate it from our body politic, otherwise we’re going to lose our Democratic Republic,” Cohen told Acosta.
He also noted the now-infamous catch phrase of Harris’s campaign: "We're not going back" to Trump-era politics.
“2016 through 2020 was a very tumultuous, chaotic time in America’s history. The question is, do we want to go back there?” Cohen said. “Of course, people start chanting when Kamala is talking, we’re not going back.”
“Why would you want to live in chaos? Why do you want to live with the tumult that this man brings?" he continued. “I know the man and I’m telling you, if he, God forbid a million times, wins the election right now in 2024, there will never be another election ever again.”