Michael Cohen pleas for Biden presidential pardon: 'I'm somebody's son also'
Cohen has said he planned to leave the country if Trump were re-elected
By Lindsay Kornick Fox News
Published January 12, 2025 8:00pm EST
Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen is demanding President Biden pardon him like he pardoned his son Hunter before President-elect Donald Trump can take office.
Cohen discussed his efforts to reach out to the Biden administration for a pardon on MSNBC’s "The Weekend" Saturday morning. He claimed that not giving him a presidential pardon would continue to allow him "to be in danger" of a Trump prosecution.
Cohen argued Biden has an obligation to protect him and other critics from Trump, like he protected his son Hunter.
"Yeah, I put in the application for a presidential pardon because I believe that Joe Biden has the same responsibility to me that he had to his own son," Cohen said. "And I would expect that the same exact pardon that he gave his son has to go to me and to anybody else that’s on that enemies list, whether they want it or not, because I assure you, solitary confinement, where I did 51 days, sucks."
MSNBC host Symone Sanders agreed with Cohen’s concern over being on Trump’s "enemies list" but disagreed with invoking Hunter Biden for his case.
"I mean, Hunter Biden is the president’s last surviving son," Sanders said.
"I’m somebody’s son also, by the way," Cohen responded.
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https://www.foxnews.com/media/michael-cohen-pleas-biden-presidential-pardon-im-somebodys-son-also"Agreed. You are somebody’s son," Sanders said. "But I mean, to be very clear, you’re not the president’s son. And he pardoned Hunter primarily because that is his son, I think."
Cohen insisted on how important it was to take Trump seriously as a threat.
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