Michael Cohen said another personal lawyer to former President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, “would give Donald Trump up in a heartbeat” after federal agents raided the former New York City mayor’s home and office.
Cohen offered his assessment on CNN on Thursday one day after FBI agents seized the 76-year-old Giuliani’s electronic devices on Wednesday as part of an investigation into his dealings in Ukraine, according to Giuliani’s lawyer, who called the search “legal thuggery.”
“What I told [Giuliani] was that Donald Trump doesn’t care about anyone or anything. That he will be the next one to be thrown under the bus, and that’s exactly what’s going to happen,” Cohen told CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota.
“What I told him was that Donald Trump doesn’t care about anyone or anything, that he will be the next one to be thrown under the bus,” says Michael Cohen of Rudy Giuliani.
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Cohen, whose office and hotel room were similarly raided by federal agents in 2018, lost his law license after he pleaded guilty to multiple felonies in 2018. He was sentenced to three years in federal prison but got out early last year and put into home confinement due to coronavirus concerns. Cohen wrote a book that was released last year, Disloyal, which describes how he became part of a “cult of personality” working for Trump.
He told CNN the first thought that came into his mind when agents raided Giuliani’s home was “that I’m no longer the only one.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and the FBI have reportedly long wanted to obtain a search warrant for Giuliani’s cellular devices, and senior political appointees in the Justice Department under Trump repeatedly sought to block a search warrant on the former mayor.
“[Giuliani’s] nervous, and rightfully so. Rudy will give up Donald in a heartbeat. Donald will throw anyone and everyone under the bus,” Cohen said.
Giuliani began serving as Trump’s personal lawyer during the Russia investigation and worked for the 45th president through the Ukraine impeachment saga and 2020 election challenges.
In January, Cohen predicted Trump had secret “pocket pardons” for Giuliani and his children, and, in March, Cohen met with the Manhattan district attorney’s office for the eighth time as part of a criminal investigation peering into Trump’s family business finances.
Trump called the raid of Giuliani’s home and office “so unfair,” saying the attorney is a “great patriot.”
