Michael Cohen says he was 'coerced' by Letitia James and Alvin Bragg to turn on Trump

 NY Post  

"Ex-legal fixer Michael Cohen on Friday accused New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of forcing him to testify against his former client, Donald Trump, as part of their civil fraud and “hush money” cases against the now-sitting president.

" 'I felt compelled and coerced to deliver what they were seeking,” Cohen wrote in a Substack post. “Letitia James and Alvin Bragg may not share the same office or political calendar, but they share the same playbook.”

"Cohen took to the independent journalists’ platform to reveal his thoughts about participating in the legal proceedings, as Trump seeks to have his appeal to overturn Bragg’s conviction heard by a federal appeals court.

"The president’s attorneys are also still seeking to have the $454 million civil fraud judgment against Trump for inflating his real estate empire tossed.

" 'From the time I first began meeting with lawyers from the Manhattan DA’s Office and the New York Attorney General’s Office in connection with their investigations of President Trump, and through the trials themselves,” Cohen wrote on his new platform, “I felt pressured and coerced to only provide information and testimony that would satisfy the government’s desire to build the cases against and secure a judgment and convictions against President Trump.” . . .

Trump demands NY AG James turn over all communications with Michael Cohen after the ex-fixer claimed he was ‘coerced’ 

"President Trump’s lawyers Wednesday demanded the release of all communications between Michael Cohen and New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office in response to a “revelatory” Substack post the ex-fixer made in which he claimed he was “pressured and coerced” to testify against Trump. 

"The 25-page filing comes about a month before Trump’s team is due to file a brief with the New York State Court of Appeals in response to James’ request for the half-billion-dollar civil fraud penalty against the president — which was thrown out last August — to be reinstated. 

"The president’s legal team called for an order requiring the production of “all records of all communications between Michael D. Cohen” and the Democratic AG and her staff, including interview transcripts, notes, emails, letters and recordings." . . . 

More on this: Michael Cohen’s Confession That Letitia James ‘Pressured and Coerced’ Him To Testify Against Trump Turbocharges President’s Appeal

Melania Trump just took down her first official criminal...

 Revolver News

Scroll to 5:20 for the beginning of the First Lady's speech

. . . "The bill was introduced by Ted Cruz and Democrat Amy Klobuchar, championed by First Lady Melania Trump, and signed into law by President Trump about a year ago. Melania pushed the Take It Down Act as a way to protect both kids and adults from digital abuse. Namely, deepfake images and videos that are being used to humiliate, exploit, and destroy people with the click of a button.

"The first conviction is a 37-year-old man who loaded his phone up with more than two dozen AI platforms and over 100 AI models. He then used texts, phone calls, and online posts to terrorize his victims.

"He targeted at least six adult women with both real and AI-generated nude images. Prosecutors also say he made obscene AI-generated content using the faces of children from his community, then uploaded hundreds of those images and videos to a child sexual abuse website.

The Hill:

First lady Melania Trump lauded the first conviction under the Take It Down Act against nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes, thanking federal prosecutors for “protecting Americans from cybercrimes in this new digital age.”

A Columbus, Ohio, man pleaded guilty Tuesday to cybercrimes involving real and AI-generated sexually explicit images, along with violent threats, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

“Today marks the first conviction under the Take It Down Act – protecting victims from non-consensual AI-generated sexually explicit images, cyberstalking, and threats of violence,” the first lady wrote on the social platform X. “Thank you U.S. Attorney Dominick S. Gerace II for protecting Americans from cybercrimes in this new digital age.” . . .

What can be stranger than a Democrat supporter?

Las Vegas Review-Journal

Gavin Newsom says he has led the charge against fraud in California  "We need more Nick Shirleys who expose this rampant fraud. And fewer corrupt politicians who think we will believe anything."

"So, somehow Gavin “Slick” Newsom “led the charge” against fraud in California. And Tampon Timmy Walz implies that he has been anti-fraud all along, and others have been late to the fraud-fighting party.

"Bill Clinton essentially stated that whether or not he was lying depended on what the definition of “is” is. That seems almost quaint now. If he were in keeping with the tactics of today’s Democrats, he would have boldly asserted, “No one in the history of the world has ever fought longer and harder against sexual harassment, impropriety, infidelity, misogyny, and imbalance of power dynamics than I have.'”

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Democrats Go Full Anti-Semite - Civis Americanus   "Gavin Newsom bets antisemitism is the Democratic Party’s future" from the New York Post sums up the entire theme of this article. "Gavin Newsom endorsed the lie Tuesday that Israel is an 'apartheid' state — a damning sign of where the Democratic Party is headed, and how far it’s already sunk."

If Newsom doesn't know that Christian and Muslim Israeli citizens can vote and be elected to the Knesset, and that Israel's laws protect all of its citizens equally, he is incompetent.

"All Israelis are treated equally under the law, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, religion or ethnicity." . .  .

• This reference adds, "…protesters from the Reverend Sharpton's National Action Network have referred to members of the Jewish faith as 'bloodsucking [J]ews,' and         'Jew bastards…'"  If the Democrat Party needs the kind of vote the NAN can deliver, it doesn't need yours or mine.

Civis Americanus is the pen name of a contributor who remembers the lessons of history, and wants to ensure that our country never needs to learn those lessons again the hard way. He or she is remaining anonymous due to the likely prospect of being subjected to "cancel culture" for exposing the Big Lie behind Black Lives Matter.

Democrats Are Killing the Country with Racism 

. . . "As Root repeatedly points out, Democrat-run states are destroying themselves.  By electing “evil, communist madmen like LA Mayor Karen Bass, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani,” Democrats have ensured that their cities “will soon collapse and drown in a sea of crime and debt.”  For decades, Root argues, white Americans have left Democrat-controlled cities primarily to avoid rising crime and crippling taxes.  Now they are leaving because Democrats have put targets on their backs." . . .

. . . "Democrat mayors, governors, and presidential hopefuls now explicitly tell us that they will never stop taking from white people in the name of false “justice.”  They will never stop dividing Americans by skin color.  They will never just treat all of us as “unhyphenated Americans,” as the late, great Lloyd Marcus used to call himself." . . .  

 

Monday's Swalwell report

" No, it wasn’t the beauty of our constitutional republic that killed the grubby, foul-smelling Swalwell’s campaign to run California.  It was the Democrat beast.  And it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy...with a worse beard."  Pete McArdle

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Dems take down one of their own   "How delicious — the sad, sudden end of Eric “The Flatulator” Swalwell’s political career.

"Why do I say “end”?  Because it was an inside job.

"Behind closed doors, Democrat power brokers, for whatever reasons, made the decision to terminate Rep. Swalwell’s bid for governor of California.  And the same old plot that’s used, mainly against Republicans, got called into action, this time against a disfavored Democrat.

"It starts with allegations from the past of rape and sexual harassment, beginning with the most lurid, served with a side of “believe all women.”  Then more victims suddenly come forward.  Strength in numbers.

"Here’s where you know the call came from inside the house.  Normally a Democrat candidate for high office gets his posterior both bussed and protected by the mendacious left-wing media.  Traditionally, the media would have given these sex crime allegations a good leaving alone, as they typically do, say, with the murder of an American woman committed by an unvetted illegal.

"But in Rep. Swalwell’s case, they did not.  Not only was the story widely covered by the normally incurious media, but it was also presented using eerily similar language, as if writers, radio commentators, and TV talking heads were all working from the same script.

"How do they do that?  I don’t know!

"They used the same words, the same lame asides, and all parroted the same fateful conclusion: Swalwell must drop out of the California gubernatorial race."

Over 50 Former Eric Swalwell Staffers Call for His Resignation  

. . . "After calling for a full investigation into the matter, the former staffers ultimately concluded that Swalwell should not only drop from the California governor race but also resign from Congress." . . . 

Report: Billionaire Kicks Swalwell Out of Mansion, Wants $1M in Donations Back Following Rape Allegations  "Stephen Cloobeck, the billionaire and former California governor hopeful who dropped out of the race to fund disgraced Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-CA) gubernatorial campaign, has kicked the congressman out of his mansion and reportedly wants his $1 million in donations back after multiple women accused him of sexual assault and misconduct." . . .  

Representative Eric Swalwell, a leading candidate for California governor, denied accusations of sexual assault by a former staffer, calling them ‘absolutely false’ https://t.co/KWqxztXuD8 pic.twitter.com/TUHmy3ThQR

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 11, 2026

The Morning Briefing: Eric Swalwell's Gubernatorial Bid Gets Hit By the #MeToo Train  

"Few politicians in my lifetime have oozed more sleaze than Eric Swalwell, so none of this is surprising. His fall from grace comes with extra helpings of schadenfreude because Swalwell is also a persistent, combative, and smug presence on social media." 

What's Happening in CA's Gubernatorial Race Perfectly Captures the State's Politics  . . . "Getting Swalwell completely out of politics seems like it would be overwhelmingly positive for the United States of America, but these are the 21st-century Democrats we're talking about here. As I have written on many occasions, the Democrats always have someone worse waiting in the wings. In this case, someone much, much worse. My Twitchy colleague Warren Squire writes that former Vice President Kamala Harris may be jumping into the governor's race in California now that Swalwell is out."  . . .

The American Spectator