Michael Cohen pleads for Biden presidential pardon: ‘I’m somebody’s son also’

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Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen is pleading with President Joe Biden to pardon him as he did his own son, Hunter Biden.

Speaking on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” on Saturday, Cohen expressed concerns that he will continue “to be in danger” unless he is pardoned by the president before President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House. But claiming Biden had a “responsibility” to pardon him seemed to get under the skin of one MSNBC host who questioned the former “fixer” who served prison time for a felony conviction connected to Trump’s “hush money” controversy.

“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.”

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Democratic strategist Symone Sanders-Townsend pushed back on his remarks.

“Michael Cohen, I believe wholeheartedly that the solitary confinement was just a terrible experience for you. And I think your point about the enemies, the proverbial enemies list, right, is a good one,” she began.

“I am struck by your comparing yourself and Hunter Biden. And I wonder if — Well, I’m just going to tell you, Michael, because you’re on national TV, we’re having a conversation. I don’t necessarily think that’s the best way to go get a pardon,” said the MSNBC host who has worked on campaigns for President Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Vice President Kamala Harris.

“I mean, Hunter Biden is the president’s last surviving son. But your point, your other point, where I do think –” Sanders-Townsend continued before Cohen interjected.

“I’m somebody’s son also, by the way,” he said.

“Agreed. You are somebody’s son,” Sanders-Townsend responded. “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. I did not ask the president this directly.”

“But your point about the fact that there are many other people who are in the ire of the president-elect who could be in danger like yourself, I do think is a strong one,” she conceded.

“And it is. And it’s a reality,” Cohen agreed.

“You know, you have to take Donald Trump for his word. When he turns out, so far everything that he said that he intends to do, he actually intends to do. And he has been doing it one by one by one,” he claimed. “Now, it may not all happen on day one, as he said, but ultimately, he’ll have four years plus with a whole group of individuals that are now going to be filling government positions in order to help him effectuate his goals.

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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.