Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is calling on President Biden to pardon him He pardoned his son Hunter Before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
Cohen discussed his efforts to reach out to the Biden administration to obtain a pardon on MSNBC's “The Weekend” on Saturday morning. He claimed that not being granted a presidential pardon would continue to allow him to “run the risk” of Trump being prosecuted.
Cohen said Biden is obligated to protect him and other critics of Trump, just as he protected his son Hunter.
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen has issued a request for a presidential pardon from President Biden. (MSNBC screenshot)
“Yes, I applied for a presidential pardon because I believe that Joe Biden bears the same responsibility to me that he bears to his son,” Cohen said. “And I expect that the same pardon he gave his son should go to me and to anyone else on the enemy list, whether they want it or not, because I assure you, solitary confinement, where I spent 51 days, sucks.”
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MSNBC host Symone Sanders agreed with Cohen's concerns about being included on Trump's “enemies list” but disagreed with Hunter Biden being called in his case.
“I mean, Hunter Biden is the last surviving child of the president,” Sanders said.
“I'm someone's son too, by the way,” Cohen responded.
“Agreed. You're somebody's son,” Sanders said. “But to be very clear, you're not the president's son. He pardoned Hunter in the first place because he's his son, I believe.”
Cohen insisted how important it was to take Trump seriously as a threat.
Cohen previously said that he intends to leave the country if Trump is re-elected. (Getty Images)
“You have to take Donald Trump at his word when he turns around,” Cohen said. “So far, everything he said he intended to do, he actually intended to do. And he was doing it one by one. Now, it may not all happen on the first day, he said, but in the end he did it.” “He will spend over four years with a whole group of individuals who will now hold government positions to help him achieve his goals.”
Cohen spent three years in prison For federal crimes With tax evasion, campaign finance violations, and lying to Congress while working for Trump. He has since become an outspoken critic of the president-elect and testified against Trump in Alvin Bragg's criminal case in New York earlier this year.
Cohen also said in September that he had plans To leave the country If Trump is re-elected.
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“I'm already working on getting a foreign passport under a completely different name. I don't know how it's going to go in terms of dealing with my wife and kids. I definitely don't want them moving to where I am.” “I'm looking forward to leaving,” Cohen said.
Biden pardoned his son Hunter in December and indicated he would offer preemptive pardons to other Trump opponents. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Biden has been attacked by both sides for granting his son Hunter a pardon in December, despite his insistence that he would not do so. In the weeks leading up to the end of his term, Biden also said he was still there Consider a preventive pardon For some of Trump's political enemies, like former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney and Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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