Former Trump personal attorney turn critic Michael Cohen is warning that the ex-president’s mounting legal fees makes him “compromised” as he seeks another term in the White House.
“We need to be very careful about him as a potential president because he is for sale,” Cohen said in an interview on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” on Sunday. “He needs to figure out where he is going to raise $500-plus million over a short period of time.”
Cohen agreed when host Symone Sanders-Townsend said Trump “is open to the highest bidder at this point” including “the Saudis and the Russians.”
“Thoroughly compromised,” Cohen said.
Cohen’s comments come after two recent rulings cost the former president nearly half a billion dollars.
On Friday, New York Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump to pay nearly $355 million in penalties for inflating and deflating the value of his assets to receive lower taxes and better insurance coverage and banned him from serving in a leadership position in any business in New York for three years.
In January, a Manhattan jury ordered him to pay writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million for defaming her after she accused him of raping her.
Trump’s hush money case, where Cohen is a witness, goes to trial in March. It is the first of the former president’s four criminal cases. He was also indicted for his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and mishandling classified documents and obstruction of justice. Trump also faced state charges in Georgia for his attempts to overturn the results of the election in the state.
