Michael Cohen predicted that Trump would be indicted soon.
Cohen thinks Trump will be subpoenaed to testify.
The Justice Department was "tiptoeing" around the president, he said.
Michael Cohen believes that Donald Trump will be indicted by the Department of Justice soon over his handling of classified documents.
"I think that there is going to be an indictment soon," Cohen said while speaking on MSNBC. I think there will be congressional hearings with Donald in the hot seat, you know, either he'll come in willingly, which you know I don't think he will, or via subpoena.
"Where are the documents that were in these empty top- secret files that were found at Mar-a-Lago?" they have to ask. Cohen kept going. Who did Donald give them to or show them to?
After leaving Trump's service, Cohen became one of the former president's most outspoken critics. He was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to a number of felonies. Cohen was disbarred in New York.
Cohen said that the DOJ had been "tiptoeing" around Trump as if he were a "supreme leader or a monarch."
I've said it from the beginning, Joy. Donald is a threat to the national security of this country. If this doesn't prove it, I don't think anything will.
Cohen disagreed with the description of Trump as un-bloody-touchable.
Cohen disagreed with you that he wouldn't be held accountable for this. At this point in time, this is too large.
A spokesman for Trump's post-presidential office did not respond to the request for comment.
The FBI searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago home and found 11 sets of classified documents. Nuclear secrets were included in some of the documents. The FBI said on September 2 that it had found 48 empty boxes.
There is no evidence that Trump ordered the declassification of the Mar-a-Lago documents while he was in the White House. 18 aides from the Trump administration told CNN they had never heard of it.
The Espionage Act isn't a factor in the DOJ's investigation into whether Trump broke any federal laws with his handling of sensitive files.
The judge granted Trump's request for a special master to review the documents seized by the FBI. Cannon's ruling is being appealed.
Several former top-ranking officials and high-profile observers believe that Trump may have intended to sell or barter the classified documents for his benefit.
The highest price for any top-secret information about a country's nuclear weapons would have been paid by Trump, according to a former FBI official. Peter Srzok, a former FBI official, said that any competent foreign intelligence service from Cuba, Iran, Russia, or China would have been able to gain access to Mar-a-Lago.
A week after the Mar-a-Lago raid, Eric Shawn asked if Trump tried to sell the documents to the Russians or the Saudis.
Cohen has said that Trump may have tried to keep the documents as "bargaining chips" if he were ever in danger of being imprisoned.
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