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Now, Cohen is blowing the whistle on the very prosecutions he helped enable.
“I felt pressured and coerced to only provide information and testimony that would satisfy the government’s desire to build the cases against and secure a judgment and convictions against President Trump,” Cohen wrote.
Both James and Bragg openly ran on promises to go after Trump, and Cohen says they delivered by forcing testimony to match pre-decided conclusions rather than seeking the truth.
“During my time with prosecutors, both in preparation for and during the trials, it was clear they were interested only in testimony from me that would enable them to convict President Trump,” Cohen explained.
When Cohen’s answers didn’t align with the narrative prosecutors wanted, he says they tried to force the story.
“When my testimony was insufficient for a point the prosecution sought to make, prosecutors frequently asked inappropriate leading questions to elicit answers that supported their narrative,” he stated.
Cohen accused James and Bragg of crossing the line between justice and politics, noting their careers were built on “taking down Trump” rather than pursuing objective truth.
Importantly, Cohen emphasized he is not trying to defend Trump personally. “Prosecutors pick their target first and then seek evidence to fit a predetermined narrative,” he said, drawing parallels to the prosecutorial tactics used against Michael Flynn during the Mueller investigation.
Flynn was coerced into a guilty plea through threats against his son, despite the FBI admitting he had not lied. He spent years fighting to overturn the plea before receiving a presidential pardon. Cohen suggests the same playbook was used against Trump.
The timing of Cohen’s confession is critical, as a federal appeals court considers Trump’s request to move his criminal case to federal court. His admission that he was pressured undermines the foundation of both New York cases.
Courts have overturned convictions before when witnesses admitted to being coerced. A survey by the Innocence Project found 660 cases involving prosecutorial misconduct, including witness intimidation. In the Broadcom securities fraud case, the indictment was dismissed after prosecutors “improperly intimidated three witnesses critical to the defendants’ case.”
If Cohen’s testimony was indeed manipulated, Trump’s convictions could be overturned on appeal. Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Director Kash Patel are reportedly investigating whether James and Bragg violated Trump’s civil rights through politically motivated prosecutions.
Trump weighed in immediately, calling the New York cases a “SET UP from the beginning” and posting on Truth Social: “These horrible Radical Left people, doing everything possible to destroy our Country, should pay a big price for this!”
Cohen’s admission confirms what Trump supporters have long suspected: that the prosecutions were not about justice, but about creating a manufactured path to conviction.
This is not legal maneuvering—it is prosecutorial misconduct on full display.
