Michael Cohen — former fixer for President Donald Trump who has since become a vocal critic — stunned an MSNBC panel Saturday night by sharing his opinion that newly-indicted former FBI Director James Comey “committed a crime.”
Cohen delivered his take while appearing as a panelist on MSNBC’s The Weekend Primetime — co-hosted on Saturday by Elise Jordan, Ayman Mohyeldin and Molly Jong-Fast. Cohen started out by calling out what has been the pundit consensus that Comey wasn’t actually involved in any wrongdoing.
“Who’s seen a single document that’s in the possession right now of the DOJ?” Cohen asked. “The answer is nobody. Who has the crystal ball? Still nobody.”
The ex-fixer claimed to have conducted an “investigation” — along with left-leaning reporter Brian Karem — in which he “learned that Comey was actually very much involved in the Russia investigation in a very negative way.”
And that was when Cohen shocked the MSNBC co-hosts.
“Chances are this DOJ has every single email, every text message, every communication,” Cohen said. “I believe likely he will be found guilty.”
A visibly taken aback Jordan paused a beat before following up with Cohen.
“Well, that’s interesting,” Jordan said — before Cohen promptly interjected.
“I believe likely he committed a crime,” Cohen said.
Jong-Fast was floored.
“Wait, what?!” Jong-Fast said.
Cohen drew on his own experience — having pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and fraud in connection with hush money payouts to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal — to bolster his argument that the Trump DOJ will find something on Comey.
“I believe likely he committed a crime,” Cohen said. “I don’t know what that crime is, but there are hundreds of thousands of documents, and the government has each and every one of them…I’ve been through this system. I know better than anybody what a weaponized DOJ looks like and feels like. It is insurmountable.”
“Didn’t you actually break the law, though?” Jordan asked.
“Well, it was a campaign finance violation,” Cohen said.
“Isn’t that what the law is supposed to do?” Jordan replied.
Cohen responded that he “pled under some very extreme circumstances. My entire case didn’t last like everyone else’s. It was 48 hours … From a Friday to a Monday, either I plead guilty or Southern District of New York was filing an 80-page indictment that included my wife…we could re-litigate the whole thing, but I believe that Comey likely will be found guilty.”
Watch above, via MSNBC.
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