Donald Trump wrote in a midnight social media post that he is “an innocent man who has been horribly treated” as he demanded that the criminal and civil New York cases against him be thrown out and the prosecutors behind them be held “criminally responsible” for what he called their “terrible misdeeds.”
Cohen earlier this year claimed he felt “pressured and coerced” by prosecutors during the investigations into Trump, despite spending years slamming his former boss, and profiting from that criticism.
The president claimed Cohen (who was, during Trump’s first term, jailed for his role in the hush money payments that were made to porn actor Stormy Daniels and model Karen McDougal, who’d alleged sexual encounters with Trump) had effectively withdrawn his testimony.
Trump wrote: “When a Star Witness totally recants, and in every way reveals that he was pressured and coerced to give testimony, and when the Prosecutor admits that this Witness was the single reason that the case was brought, there was no other, how can that Case not be immediately dismissed?”
“Now that his testimony is wiped away, and the unAmerican, Political Charade ‘Cases’ are even further discredited, they should be put out of their misery, and dismissed, once and for all,” he wrote.
Trump also demanded: “Our Constitution, and the Rule of Law, demand immediate and swift dismissal, as well as for the Perpetrators of the Radical Left Lawfare and Weaponization to be held criminally responsible for their terrible misdeeds.”