Key witness Michael Cohen issues statement after Trump found guilty on all charges

Former lawyer Michael Cohen spoke out about the guilty conviction of his former boss, Donald Trump, in a statement sent to Raw Story Thursday.

Cohen went to prison after fronting Trump with cash to help cover up an alleged affair with actress and director Stormy Daniels. Trump, however, hasn't suffered any consequences for the business records that were falsified around the hush money scheme — until Thursday. The jury found him guilty on all 34 felony counts.

"Today is an important day for accountability and the rule of law," Cohen said in a statement. "While it has been a difficult journey for me and my family, the truth always matters. I want to thank my attorneys, Danya Perry and Joshua Kolb, for their invaluable guidance and support throughout this process."

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Cohen lost both his law license and his New York taxi medallion license, rendering him unable to make any income. So, he's penned three best-selling books and headlines his own "Mea Culpa" podcast, where he trashes his former boss to millions of viewers and listeners.

Legal experts are already anticipating that, like Cohen, Trump will be sent to jail for the verdict.

Cohen was said to have been the "star witness" by Trump, but legal analysts agreed the witnesses called before proved the case long before.

"Even before Michael Cohen took the stand, they had pretty much proved beyond a reasonable doubt that these documents were false records," said former federal prosecutor Preet Bharara on his podcast last week. "And to put a fine point on it, Cohen testified ... 'I created a document called an invoice.'"

Bharara argued the reason the documents are known to be false is that the payment for Cohen could have been made in a lump sum, but CFO Allen Weisselberg and Trump decided to space it all out over time and call it a "retainer."

"So, that's just the sixth or seventh way in which prosecutors, I imagine, in summation, 'It was just B.S. Nothing was done in January, February, March, April. All those future months,"' he continued. "There was no reason to do that unless you were trying to cover up the nature of the expense."

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