President Trump’s lawyers demanded the release of all communications between Michael Cohen and New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office after Cohen claimed he was “coerced” into testifying against Trump.
According to a report from The New York Post, the president’s legal team requested “all records of all communications between Michael D. Cohen” and James’ staff. Trump’s lawyers noted that Cohen’s testimony “is at the heart of the NYAG’s case.”
“In sum, the NYAG is blocking any discovery into, and possibly even preservation of, evidence of the ‘pressured and coerced’ testimony that it used to convince the trial court to enter a wrongful judgment against Defendants,” the filing argues.
In a January post on Substack, Coehn wrote that he “felt compelled and coerced to deliver what they were seeking.”
“Letitia James and Alvin Bragg may not share the same office or political calendar, but they share the same playbook,” he wrote, adding, “From the time I first began meeting with lawyers from the Manhattan DA’s Office and the New York Attorney General’s Office in connection with their investigations of President Trump, and through the trials themselves, I felt pressured and coerced to only provide information and testimony that would satisfy the government’s desire to build the cases against and secure a judgment and convictions against President Trump.”
“During my time with prosecutors, both in preparation for and during the trials, it was clear they were interested only in testimony from me that would enable them to convict President Trump,” Cohen added. “When my testimony was insufficient for a point the prosecution sought to make, prosecutors frequently asked inappropriate leading questions to elicit answers that supported their narrative.”
