By Steve Neavling
Ticklethewire.com
President Trump and his outside advisers are growing more concerned that Trump’s longtime attorney and loyal ally, Michael Cohen, may cooperate with federal prosecutors if he’s charged with a crime.
Two sources close to the president told Politico that White House officials are openly questioning whether Cohen would flip if he is facing jail time.
“That’s what they’ll threaten him with: life imprisonment,” said Alan Dershowitz, a frequent Trump defender who met with the president and his staff at the White House last week. “They’re going to threaten him with a long prison term and try to turn him into a canary that sings.”
FBI agents raided Cohen’s office, home and hotel room, seizing computers, phones and documents, including correspondence with his clients.
Investigators are scrutinizing, among other things, a $130,000 payment that Cohen said he gave adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who claims she had an affair with Trump in 2006.
“When anybody is faced with spending a long time in jail, they start to re-evaluate their priorities, and cooperation can’t be ruled out,” said one Trump ally who knows Cohen.
Trump and his advisers are more fearful of the Cohen investigation that the special counsel one, the sources said.
