Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen has revealed he has no plans to leave the US after previously pledging to flee the country if his former boss won re-election.
The felon attorney made the declaration during a cranky live stream where viewers mocked him by adding embarrassing filters over his face which he struggled to turn off.
‘Can we stop with that? I don’t appreciate the stupid turkeys,’ Cohen grumbled as a prankster added one of of a cooked turkey around his head. ‘Let’s just knock that stupid s**t off.
‘I said I was leaving and then the following day get that though your dumb heads, the following day I turned around and I said that, “there’s no chance in the world that I’m leaving my country thank you very much”,’ Cohen continued.
However his point was undermined somewhat by the addition of a filter giving him glowing green laser-eyes.
Undeterred, he continued his rant, saying: ‘Not leaving anywhere, you leave. This is my country. I have every right within which to turn around…’
However he tailed off as a viewer added another Elvis-style filter complete with giant glasses and quiff hairstyle.
‘Alright two seconds I’m going to end up blocking this idiot,’ Cohen fumed.
The former ‘fixer’ previously told MSNBC he was making contingency plans to gain citizenship of another country in the event his former boss regained the White House.
Cohen, who has become a Trump nemesis and was a star witness who testified against him at the Stormy Daniels hush-money trial that resulted in a 34-count conviction.
He said Trump has become ‘the absolute worse version of himself imaginable.’
He said Trump ‘was always bad’ but has hit a who has ‘surrounded himself from the worst of the worst imaginable’ and has now hit ‘a whole new low.’
If Trump wins, ‘I’m out of here,’ said Cohen, speaking Tuesday at a time when Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are essentially tied in the polls.
He said he was ‘already working on a foreign passport with a completely different name.’
‘I have no choice,’ he told Nicole Wallace in an interview.
Trump has made a series of statements vowing ‘revenge’ against opponents, and has recently threatened to go after people who ‘cheat’ in the election, spelling out a wide category of potential targets.
Cohen began working for the Trump Organization in 2006, after helping the property mogul in a tussle with the condominium board at the Trump World Tower.
But he turned on his former employer midway through Trump’s presidency as federal investigators closed in.
The loyal fixer, who once said he would take a bullet for Trump, at first insisted he acted alone.
‘Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign … reimbursed me for the payment,’ he said in 2018.
But he soon changed his tune to become a star witness in the case against Trump.
Prosecutors successfully argued that Cohen helped his boss, who was then a presidential candidate, to silence Daniels and prevent a damaging story being published just before the 2016 election.
He was eventually 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.