Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former private lawyer, predicts he’ll “go after” tech billionaire Elon Musk’s cash now that the Tesla CEO’s time as a particular authorities worker has completed.
“I said from the very start that this bromance was going to come to an end,” Cohen mentioned on MSNBC. “I’m going to go one step even further, again, and I’m going to say Trump will ultimately go after Elon’s money next because it bothers him that he is the richest man in the world.”
“Yes, he used him for his money,” Cohen continued, referring to Trump’s remedy of Musk.
Musk spent no less than $250 million to spice up Trump’s 2024 marketing campaign and was tapped to spearhead the cost-cutting initiative to remove waste and fraud in authorities by means of the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE).
Cohen — who has become one of the vital outspoken Trump critics lately —predicted Trump will use DOGE “to figure out how Elon, with his companies, took advantage of the United States of America” and attempt to “claw back” authorities subsidies for Tesla.
“He’s going to do to Elon Musk, my prediction, what Mohammed bin Salman did to the other members of the royal family,” Cohen added, referring to the Saudi crown prince’s crackdown on so-called corruption in 2017, when he ordered the arrest and detention of dozens of distinguished leaders, together with relations, authorities officers and high enterprise leaders, upon being named inheritor to the throne.
Cohen served time in jail for a sequence of crimes that he mentioned he dedicated for Trump. He turned on his former boss, cooperating with investigators and giving testimony earlier than Congress.
Drawing on his personal expertise, he mentioned everybody in Trump’s interior circle is aware of that “loyalty with Trump … goes one way,” however they at all times suppose they’d be completely different.
He mentioned Musk “100 percent” thinks that he’s completely different, including, “and so does [Secretary of Commerce Howard] Lutnick and so does [Treasury Secretary Scott] Bessent, and so does [Secretary of State] Marco Rubio, and so does even [Vice President] JD Vance.”
“They all think that they’re different, that Donald is going to shine the light on them, when push comes to shove,” Cohen mentioned.
White Home communications director Steven Cheung disregarded Cohen’s remarks, calling him a “deeply troubled” particular person embracing “lies and deception.”
“Michael Cohen is an admitted liar, thief, perjurer and convicted felon. He has zero credibility, and any and all statements made by him about President Trump and others should be disregarded as the rantings of a deeply troubled, jealous, and sad individual who is clearly trying to rehabilitate his image by selling what’s left of his soul through lies and deception,” Cheung mentioned in a press release to The Hill.
