Michael Cohen expresses dissatisfaction about Trump’s sentence in the Hush Money Trial

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Cohen told MSNBC’s “The Weekend” on Saturday that there should’ve been “accountability” or the case should’ve been dismissed.
Advertisement “I believe that if there’s no accountability, there’s no deterrence.
So that we can all just turn around and refer to him now as the felon president?” said Cohen.
Advertisement Cohen declared on MSNBC that “nobody in this country” — whether they’re a Republican, Democrat or independent — should take “solace” in the fact that Trump is a convicted felon when he takes office in just over a week.
Cohen later declared that Trump, who has complained about being the victim of a two-tiered justice system, has “taught us all” that there are people above the law.

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Michael Cohen, a former fixer for Donald Trump and his former personal lawyer, feels “very unsatisfied” after the president-elect was sentenced without penalty in a historic New York trial. Cohen pled guilty and served time in prison for charges related to a hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

The case should have been dropped or there should have been “accountability,” Cohen stated on Saturday on MSNBC’s “The Weekend.”.

“I think there can be no deterrence if there is no accountability. Cohen asked, “And what’s the point of having the case anyway if there’s no accountability or deterrence? So that we can all just turn around and call him the felon president now.”.

Last year, a jury found Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to the payment made in the last days of his 2016 campaign. Friday’s sentencing follows that conviction.

On his Truth Social platform on Friday, the president-elect declared that he would “appeal this hoax” after being given an unconditional discharge, which is essentially no punishment.

When Trump takes office in a little more than a week, Cohen said on MSNBC that “nobody in this country”—regardless of whether they are Republicans, Democrats, or independents—should take “solace” in the fact that he is a convicted felon.

Cohen, who has been a harsh Trump critic since his 2018 sentencing and was barred from practicing law in New York State, claimed he had “never heard” of an unconditional discharge in his “entire life.” He then added that when he looked for one on ChatGPT, he was unable to locate any cases with such a sentence.

Trump should have been given a “conditional discharge,” he said, and the president-elect should be asked to work in a soup kitchen or pick up trash along the West Side Highway in New York City.

“I served six years—three years in prison and three years under supervision—without receiving a single second, minute, or hour of my sentence being reduced, and he doesn’t even receive a slap on the wrist. Thus, I’m not happy,” Cohen remarked.

Cohen went on to say that Trump, who has lamented the existence of a two-tiered legal system, has “taught us all” that some people are above the law.

“Yes, it is true when you hear that we live in a nation of laws without justice. The fact that the law is not applied uniformly to all citizens is even worse,” he added.

There are three different sets of laws: one for the average Joe and Jane, one for you and me, one for those in positions of power, whether they be politically or financially, and one, of course, for Donald Trump. He stands apart and by himself. “.”.

He continued by admitting that, despite “everything that was thrown against him,” Trump’s election victory was the only way he could have escaped jail time, probation, or accountability. “.”.

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For many Americans, who chose him based on just three words—gas and groceries—all of this somehow managed to become irrelevant. The trick is incredible,” Cohen remarked.

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