President Donald Trump’s disgraced former lawyer, Michael Cohen, has been politically irrelevant for years.
Now he’s trying to claw his way back into the spotlight with another headline-grabbing allegation. Cohen claims he was coerced into testifying in both the civil fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James and the criminal case pursued by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg—pressured, he says, to deliver testimony tailored to what prosecutors wanted to hear about Trump.
“I felt compelled and coerced to deliver what they were seeking,” Cohen wrote in a Substack post. “Letitia James and Alvin Bragg may not share the same office or political calendar, but they share the same playbook.” [….]
“From the time I first began meeting with lawyers from the Manhattan DA’s Office and the New York Attorney General’s Office in connection with their investigations of President Trump, and through the trials themselves,” Cohen wrote on his new platform, “I felt pressured and coerced to only provide information and testimony that would satisfy the government’s desire to build the cases against and secure a judgment and convictions against President Trump.”
To refresh your memory, he was a key witness in both cases. He said in the Bragg case, they only wanted “testimony from me that would enable them to convict President Trump.”
More:
“When my testimony was insufficient for a point the prosecution sought to make, prosecutors frequently asked inappropriate leading questions to elicit answers that supported their narrative.”
For the James case, Cohen also alleged that the Empire State attorney general’s team “made clear that the testimony they wanted from me was testimony” that “would go after President Trump.”
So why come forward now, after all this time? Cohen says he has had a sudden epiphany. “I have witnessed firsthand the damage done when prosecutors pick their target first and then seek evidence to fit a predetermined narrative,” he claims.
Naturally, he insists this isn’t about defending President Trump:
“When politics and prosecution become indistinguishable, public trust erodes; not just in individual cases, like mine and Trump’s, but in the system itself.”
I tend to believe Michael Cohen says whatever serves his own interests at the moment, and this latest claim looks no different. With the political winds shifting, it’s fair to wonder whether he’s hoping this sudden “clarity” might work to his advantage. What he cannot do, however, is undo years of statements and testimony he eagerly offered against President Trump.
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That said, plenty of Americans could find Cohen’s claim believable, given the unprecedented and aggressive efforts aimed at Trump. The problem is that Cohen provides no specifics—no names, no conversations, no concrete examples—leaving the public guessing about whether his accusation has any real legal or political consequence at all.
You don’t have to imagine President Trump’s response. He called the actions against him “a set up from the beginning,” saying they “could not let this pass.” Trump added that the “radical left people” responsible should pay a “big price for this,” underscoring his long-held view that the cases were politically motivated from day one.
BREAKING ? Donald Trump said Michael Cohen said he was ‘COERCED’ by Letitia James and Alvin Bragg
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— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) January 17, 2026
By the way, both of these cases involving Bragg and James are under appeal.
