Donald Trump’s former adviser Michael Cohen has revealed he has no plans to leave the United States after previously vowing to flee the country if his former boss won re-election.
The criminal lawyer made the statement during a moody livestream where viewers mocked him by adding embarrassing filters to his face which he struggled to turn off.
‘Can we stop with that? I don’t appreciate stupid turkeys,’ Cohen grumbled when a wag added one of a cooked turkey around his head. ‘Let’s cut through that stupid shit.
“I said I was leaving and the next day they understood, although their fools, the next day I turned around and said, ‘there is no chance in the world that I am leaving my country, thank you very much.'” Cohen continued.
However, his point was undermined somewhat by the addition of a filter that gave him glowing green laser eyes.
Michael Cohen has revealed that he has no plans to leave the United States after previously vowing to flee the country if Donald Trump won the election.
Undeterred, he continued his rant and said, “If you’re not going anywhere, you’re leaving.” This is my country. I have every right to turn around…’
However, it subsided when a viewer added another Elvis-style filter complete with giant glasses and a bushy hairstyle.
“Alright, two seconds, I’m going to end up blocking this idiot,” Cohen fumed.
The former ‘fixer’ previously told MSNBC that he was making contingency plans to obtain citizenship of another country in case his former boss regained the White House.
Cohen, who has become a Trump foe and was a star witness who testified against him in the Stormy Daniels hush money trial that resulted in a 34-count conviction.
He said Trump has become “the worst version of himself imaginable.”
He said Trump “was always bad,” but he has hit someone who “has surrounded himself with the worst of the worst imaginable” and has now reached “a whole new low.”
If Trump wins, ‘I’m out of here,’ Cohen said, speaking Tuesday at a time when Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are essentially tied in the polls.
However, his angry tirade was undermined by viewers who added humorous filters to his face during the broadcast.
Cohen was previously a loyal ally of Trump, but turned on his former boss when federal prosecutors closed in during the investigation into money payments made to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election.
He said he was “already working on a foreign passport under a completely different name.”
“I have no choice,” he told Nicole Wallace in an interview.
Trump has made a series of statements promising “revenge” against his opponents and has recently threatened to go after people who “cheat” in the election, outlining a broad category of potential targets.
Cohen began working for the Trump Organization in 2006, after helping the real estate mogul in a fight with the condo board at Trump World Tower.
But he turned on his former employer midway through the Trump presidency as federal investigators closed in.
The loyal mediator, who once said he would take a bullet for Trump, initially insisted he acted alone.
“Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign…refunded my payment,” he said in 2018.
A furious Cohen eventually decided to block those trying to mock him, but said he has the right to remain in the United States.
He previously said he had been looking to obtain another citizenship after Trump vowed to go after his enemies if elected.
But he soon changed his mind and became a star witness in the case against Trump.
Prosecutors successfully argued that Cohen helped his boss, who was then a presidential candidate, silence Daniels and prevent a damaging story from being published just before the 2016 election.
He was ultimately sentenced to three years in federal prison after pleading guilty to campaign finance violations, tax fraud and bank fraud, related in part to the hush money schemes.
