Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is demanding President Joe Biden issue a pardon for him before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
Appearing on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Cohen asserted Biden had a “responsibility” to pardon him.
“Yeah, I put in the application for a presidential pardon because I believe that Joe Biden has the same responsibility to me that he had to his own son,” Cohen said. “And I would expect that the same exact pardon that he gave his son has to go to me and to anybody else that’s on that enemies list, whether they want it or not, because I assure you, solitary confinement, where I did 51 days, sucks.”
Host Symone Sanders-Townsdend criticized Cohen’s demand for a pardon, stating that while she believed “his point about the enemies, the proverbial enemies list, right, is a good one,” she was “struck by your comparing yourself and Hunter Biden. And I wonder if — Well, I’m just going to tell you, Michael, because you’re on national TV, we’re having a conversation. I don’t necessarily think that’s the best way to go get a pardon.”
“I mean, Hunter Biden is the president’s last surviving son. But your point, your other point, where I do think –” Sanders-Townsend explained before Cohen interjected with, “I’m somebody’s son also, by the way.”
“Agreed. You are somebody’s son,” the host responded. “But I mean, to be very clear, you’re not the president’s son. And he pardoned Hunter primarily because that is his son, I think. I did not ask the president this directly.”
“You have to take Donald Trump for his word,” Cohen added. “So far, everything that he said that he intends to do, he actually intends to do. And he has been doing it, one by one by one. Now, it may not all happen on day one, as he said, but ultimately he’ll have four years plus with a whole group of individuals that are now going to be filling government positions in order to help him effectuate his goals.”
