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   Cohen messed his own bed, let him stay in it.   
      
   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.”   
      
   Cohen’s first-person account claimed he hoped by becoming involved in   
   the trials that defined the years before Trump’s return to the White   
   House in January 2025 that his cooperation would be looked upon   
   favorably after serving more than one year in federal prison for tax   
   evasion, bank fraud and lying to Congress.   
      
   “During my time with prosecutors, both in preparation for and during the   
   trials, it was clear they were interested only in testimony from me that   
   would enable them to convict President Trump,” he noted of Bragg’s case.   
      
   “When my testimony was insufficient for a point the prosecution sought   
   to make, prosecutors frequently asked inappropriate leading questions to   
   elicit answers that supported their narrative.”   
      
   For the James case, Cohen also alleged that the Empire State attorney   
   general’s team “made clear that the testimony they wanted from me was   
   testimony” that “would go after President Trump.”   
      
   He also noted that recent debate over the cases at the appeals-level has   
   not exonerated the president of the conviction and judgment,   
   respectively, but exposed how a “rush” to obtain findings of guilt by   
   prosecutors will result in witnesses being “leaned on.”   
      
   “You may reasonably ask why I am speaking out now. The answer is simple.   
   I have witnessed firsthand the damage done when prosecutors pick their   
   target first and then seek evidence to fit a predetermined narrative,”   
   he concluded.   
      
   “Justice must be more than effective; it must be credible,” he added.   
   “When politics and prosecution become indistinguishable, public trust   
   erodes.”   
      
   Trump, reacting to Cohen’s coercion allegations, slammed the two New   
   York cases against him as a “SET UP from the beginning,” in a Truth   
   Social post.   
      
   “These horrible Radical Left people, doing everything possible to   
   destroy our Country, should pay a big price for this!” the president   
   wrote.   
      
   “New York Courts, with many fair and wonderful Judges, are embarrassed   
   by what has happened! We cannot let this pass,” Trump said.   
      
   Representatives for Bragg and James did not immediately respond to The   
   Post’s requests for comment.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2026/01/16/us-news/michael-cohen-claims-he-was-coerced   
   -by-letitia-james-to-turn-on-trump/   
      
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