… and will the embankment be high enough to keep him on the track? I speak, of course, of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer, whose own lawyer had this to say:
Asked on NPR whether Cohen would accept a pardon from Trump for his admitted crimes, Davis gave an emphatic “no.”
“I know that Mr. Cohen would never accept a pardon from a man that he considers to be both corrupt and a dangerous person in the Oval Office, and he has flatly authorized me to say under no circumstances would he accept a pardon from Mr. Trump,” Davis said.
He went on to criticize Trump as someone “who uses the pardon power in a way that no president in American history has ever used a pardon, to relieve people who have committed crimes who are political cronies of his.”
“Mr. Cohen is not interested in being dirtied by a pardon from such a man,” Davis said. [WaPo]
Tastes to me like someone who has suddenly realized he’s been drinking poison and it’s time to take the cure, no matter how noxious. Such as telling your former boss you’d rather be in prison than be pardoned by him.
He’s trying to make right with everyone who will be judging him in the future. Will it work? Hard to say. Someone’ll probably cut him a break when he gets out of prison.
