President Trump defended Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg Thursday afternoon against claims that Weisselberg betrayed him when he agreed to work with federal prosecutors in the Michael Cohen case.
“100 percent he didn’t,” the president told Bloomberg Thursday in response to whether or not Weisselberg betrayed him or put him in legal trouble. “He’s a wonderful guy.”
Federal prosecutors granted Weisselberg immunity for giving information about the hush money former Trump attorney Michael Cohen arranged for two women during the 2016 presidential election.
Prosecutors called Weisselberg to testify before a federal grand jury in the investigation into Cohen’s hush-money payments earlier this year. For decades, Weisselberg served as the executive vice president and CFO of the Trump Organization.
Cohen has pleaded guilty to eight criminal counts. The counts range from tax fraud to falsified bank accounts to campaign finance violations. While Cohen did not directly name the president Tuesday when he pleaded guilty, he suggested he committed those offenses at Trump’s request.
Weisselberg isn’t the only former Trump ally to receive immunity from federal prosecutors. Longtime Trump ally and National Enquirer CFO David Pecker was also granted immunity in exchange for details about the payments Cohen arranged for the two women.
