Former CIA Director John Brennan expressed confidence Monday that President Trump will never have another chance to run for public office after his former fixer Michael Cohen implicated Trump in illegal payments during the presidential campaign.
Reacting to a Trump tweet, in which the president argued that Cohen’s case does not implicate him, Brennan said he takes “great solace in knowing that you realize how much trouble you are in & how impossible it will be for you to escape American justice.”
“Mostly, I am relieved that you will never have the opportunity to run for public office again,” he wrote.
Whenever you send out such inane tweets, I take great solace in knowing that you realize how much trouble you are in & how impossible it will be for you to escape American justice. Mostly, I am relieved that you will never have the opportunity to run for public office again. https://t.co/JzB6YH8C6H
— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) December 10, 2018
Cohen has pleaded guilty to criminal charges that include campaign finance violations for his payments to two women who allege they had affairs with Trump in exchange for their silence during the 2016 campaign.
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New York prosecutors said last week that the payments were made with the intent to influence the election and were made at the direction of Trump.
Brennan has long been a fierce critic of Trump, who earlier this year revoked Brennan’s security clearance.
