Donald Trump filed a complaint on Wednesday against his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, who became a prosecution witness in the case that led to a lawsuit against the former president of the United States by the New York court.
The Republican tycoon, who accuses Michael Cohen of having violated professional secrecy and the confidentiality agreement between the parties, is asking for compensation of 500 million dollars (about 455 million euros).
In his complaint, filed in a federal court located in Florida, Trump claims that the former lawyer “disparaged him in books, ‘podcasts’ and public statements to gain money and notoriety.”
Michael Cohen, according to the former US president, “revealed confidences” and “spread lies”, which “greatly damaged his image”.
Nicknamed “Donald Trump’s pit bull,” Michael Cohen once said he was willing to “take a bullet” for his boss.
Shortly before the 2016 presidential election, Cohen paid $130,000 (about 120,000 euros) out of his own pocket to a pornographic star, Stormy Daniels, to keep a secret sexual relationship she claims to have had with Donald Trump in 2016.
In January 2018, the Wall Street Journal revealed this transaction, and Michael Cohen initially shielded Trump, ensuring that he would never be reimbursed.
The article aroused, however, the interest of justice, which recently accused Donald Trump.
According to the indictment, the former president orchestrated a plan to pay the silence of three people who could harm his campaign for the presidency in 2016, among them the pornographic actress Stormy Daniels.
Alvin Bragg detailed in a statement that hush payments were made to a Trump Tower doorman who claimed to have information about Trump’s extramarital paternity case (received $30,000), to a woman who introduced herself as an ex-lover ($150,000) and the pornographic actress Stormy Daniels.
The Republican, already a candidate for the new contest for the White House in 2024, became the first former president to be accused of a crime in the US, after having denounced a “political persecution” by justice.
Source: TSF
