Michael Cohen: If Trump Wins I’ll Change My Name, ‘Leave the Country’

Wallace: “You know, I read Fred Trump’s book over the summer, and the racism has always been there. There’s the apartments and the lawsuit from DoJ. What is different in terms of the guy you knew and worked for and the guy you see running for president in 2024?”
COHEN: “Donald has become the absolute worse version of himself imaginable. And I often get asked this question and people say how, why? He was always bad. Don’t get me wrong. But this is a whole new low by this man. And it’s not that he’s even thinking about this all on his own. He has surrounded himself with the worst of the worst imaginable, the Steve Bannons, the Steve Millers, the Jason Millers. These are the worst of the worst who have — J.D. Vance, the whole group of them. The whole group of them. They are a whole group of racists and sexists. We’re know they’re misogynistic, they’re xenophobic, they’re homophobic, they’re Islamophobic, they’re transphobic, they’re anti-Semitic. What else can you possibly be? And one of them may not be all those, but each and every one of them has Donald’s ear. And we used to always say at the Trump Org, the last guy in the ear controls the brain. And that is why he acts out with ridiculous comments and making these absolutely stupid, stupid remarks.”
Wallace: “What do you think happens to you if he wins?”
COHEN: “Well, I’m out of here. I mean, I’m already working on a foreign passport with a completely different name. I don’t know how it’s going to work as far as dealing with my wife and my children. I certainly don’t want them moving to where I’m looking to go. But I — and I don’t think — yourself, the president of the MSNBC, General Milley, Liz Cheney, how many people has he turned around and said that, ‘These are people that I intend to go after if I have the ability to?’ And the worst is the Supreme Court’s recent decision that gave him immunity, presidential immunity. Now he thinks it’s not only is it ‘I can I do whatever I want,’ but ‘I can’t even be prosecuted.’ It’s a get-out-of-jail-free card solely for the president.”
Wallace: “So you’re out of here? You’d leave the country?”
COHEN: “I have no choice.”
Wallace: “Unbelievable state of being. Michael Cohen — “
COHEN: “I’ll still be available to you by remote.”
Wallace: “Right, encrypted remote. Thank you for spending time with us today.”
COHEN: “It is always good to see you.”
Wallace: “You’ve been right about everything. Let me be the first to say it.”