Michael Cohen Says Trump Will Not Run For President In 2024

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Topline

Michael Cohen, once sentenced to prison in 2018 by former President Trump’s personal lawyer and now one of his biggest critics, has said Sunday Trump will not run again in 2024, something the former president has teased since losing to elections in 2020.

Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer and fixer of President Donald Trump, has arrived in federal court … [+] for his sentencing hearing, Dec. 12, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

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Cohen, who officially ended his sentence last week after serving three years in prison and home imprisonment for tax fraud, violating campaign finance laws and lying to congress, told Meet The Press that re -running for office would ruin “” Trump. big grift ”—his ability to earn donations from supporters under the guise of potentially running again.

Cohen said many of Trump’s supporters donated to him because of the “big lie” —T Trump’s false claim that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him.

If Trump loses in 2024, “which he will,” Cohen said, “what will happen to the big lie? He can’t be like the boy screaming wolf … and that’s where his money goes.”

Large Numbers

$ 56 million. That’s how much money Trump raised in donations in the first six months of 2021 through WinRed, the Republican party’s main donations website, the New York Times reported. He raised more funds than any other Republican politician on the site, and in June had more than $ 100 million available in cash.

Key Background

Trump, who was impeached by the House for the second time at the end of his presidency for inciting insurrection on Jan. 6 at the Capitol, has flirted again with the run since President Biden took office, though he has not yet made of any concrete declaration of intent. This week, he said he would “very easily” win the Republican party’s nomination. In October, Trump’s former press secretary Stephanie Grisham spoke to “warn people” that if Trump wins again “it’s about revenge” and his second administration will be “worse off” because they don’t have to worried about re-election. In July, former Trump spokesman Jason Miller said there was a 50/50 shot that Trump would run again.

Padaplis

Trump’s 2024 campaign will look very different from his first two: After the insurrection, he was permanently banned from Twitter, where he sends dozens of messages a day, and there is no definite suspension from on Facebook, Instagram and Youtube.

Further Reading

Trump’s Ex-Press Secretary Warns That If Re-elected, ‘He’s About Revenge’ (Forbes)

Former Trump Speaker: It’s ’50 -50 ‘Trump Runs In 2024 (Forbes)

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