‘Are you serious, Mikey?!’: Stormy Daniels rages at Michael Cohen after he caves to Trump’s threats
President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney announced Wednesday that he will not testify before Congress as scheduled on February 7, citing threats to his family.
Cohen, who had once bragged that he would take a bullet for Trump, drew an angry response from two former adversaries.
Stormy Daniels, who came forward with an account of having an affair with Trump, and her lawyer Michael Avenatti, had both sparred with Cohen.
Daniels blamed Cohen for threats she got after threatening to come forward, and now suggested Cohen is a coward.
“Are you f*cking serious, Mikey?! What about MY family? You gave zero sh*ts about my baby. In all serious though, this is WHY you shouldn’t back down! This is your chance to be a hero! I’ll loan you some of my balls, hold your hand, or whatever else you need to do the right thing.”
Avenatti was likewise unsympathetic, calling Cohen’s actions “ludicrous” and pointing out that everyone involved has gotten threats.
“It doesn’t stop us from doing what is right,” Avenatti said.
Michael Avenatti ? @MichaelAvenatti It is ludicrous that Michael Cohen and Lanny Davis are attempting to sell Cohen’s refusal to testify as him looking out for his family. We have all received numerous threats, especially @StormyDaniels (largely due to Cohen btw). It doesn’t stop us from doing what is right.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday subpoenaed President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen to testify, a day after Cohen said he planned to postpone an appearance next week in the U.S. House of Representatives, Cohen’s adviser Lanny Davis said.
“This morning the Senate Intelligence Committee served Michael Cohen with a subpoena,” Davis said in a statement.
MSNBC and CNN said the subpoena called for Cohen to appear before the panel in mid-February.
A spokesman for Senator Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, declined to comment on the subpoena.
Cohen, who has pleaded guilty to crimes including campaign finance violations during Trump’s 2016 election campaign and is cooperating with investigators, postponed his scheduled House appearance because of “ongoing threats against his family from Trump” and Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Cohen’s adviser, attorney Lanny Davis, said on Wednesday.
Trump called Cohen a “rat” in a tweet last month for cooperating with prosecutors. Cohen had been Trump’s self-described longtime “fixer” and once said he would take a bullet for the New York real estate developer.
In a Fox News interview this month, and other forums, Trump also suggested he had damaging information on Cohen’s father-in-law. “That’s the one that people want to look at,” Trump said in the interview. Giuliani also referred to possible issues with him.
Reporting by Tim Ahmann and Karen Freifeld; Writing by David Alexander; editing by Diane Craft
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