Former President Donald Trump's estranged ex-attorney and fixer Michael Cohen opened up about his experiences testifying in the Manhattan criminal hush money trial on MSNBC, which on Thursday ended with Trump becoming the first former U.S. president in history to be convicted of a felony.
Cohen was one of the star witnesses for the prosecution, where he detailed how the former president used him to facilitate hush payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels to conceal their extramarital affair from 2016 presidential voters, and then illegally disguise those payments as legal fees.
"How are you?" asked MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.
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"I guess the word is relieved," said Cohen, who previously served time in prison himself as a result of the scheme. "This has been six years in the making. Remember, the very first time I met with the district attorney's office — we talked about it when I was on your show, after putting out 'Disloyal' — the first time I met was when I was an inmate in Otisville. They came up to see me on three separate occasions, so this is a six-year process for accountability to finally be had."
"Were you surprised by the verdict?" Maddow pressed him.
"No, I was not," said Cohen. "I have spoken — I've been on so many of the shows and I've told you all along that the facts speak for themselves. The documents speak for themselves. I have listened to so many pundits come on the shows ... talking about X, Y, and Z. They couldn't be further from the truth. I would have a conversation with my lawyer and say, I don't understand it, how come they don't see the same things we are seeing? I understand that it makes great headlines and so on, but the facts are the facts and at the end of the day the facts are what prevailed here."
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