Donald Trump and justice, it's a bit flee me I'm following you, follow me I'm fleeing you. On Wednesday April 12, the former American president filed a complaint against Michael Cohen, his former lawyer, who became a witness for the prosecution in the case which earned the former president to be prosecuted by New York justice. He accuses him of having violated professional secrecy and the confidentiality agreement which united them, and claims 500 million dollars in damages.
In his lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida, he claims the former attorney "disparaged him in books, podcasts, and public statements in order to gain money and notoriety." Michael Cohen, according to him, "revealed confidences" and "spread lies", which "greatly damaged his image".
It was Michael Cohen who, just before the 2016 presidential election, paid $130,000 out of his own pocket to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about a sexual relationship she says she had with Donald Trump this same year. The transaction was revealed in January 2018 by The Wall Street Journal.
If, at first, the lawyer had covered the president and ensured that he had never been reimbursed, he had ended up turning his back. Because the investigators had discovered tax fraud in his accounts. He admitted to having received eleven checks to cover the costs incurred with the porn star.
However, these payments were recorded as "legal fees" in the accounts of the Trump Organization, which led to Donald Trump being charged on April 4 with 34 counts of "falsification accounting" by the New York justice.
Never before has a former president been criminally prosecuted in the entire history of the United States. Donald Trump, who dreams of winning back the White House in 2024, denounced a "political persecution".
