How Trump Got Michael Cohen’s Emails Over DA Objections
For weeks last year, the Manhattan district attorney scrambled to stop Donald Trump from engaging in what prosecutors saw as an invasive revenge scheme against a former confidant who’s become a lead witness in the Stormy Daniels hush money case: an attempt to seize Michael Cohen’s personal emails and text messages.
But Trump’s lawyers managed to circumvent local prosecutors by going straight to the feds who had previously sent Cohen to prison, scoring more than 30,000 emails they now plan to use to discredit him at the upcoming trial.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York is now flooding the much smaller Manhattan DA’s Office with tons of paperwork, which then gets turned over to the former president’s defense team.