President Donald Trump continues to battle New York Attorney General Letitia James, as his lawyers have just filed a demand that her office turn over “all records of all communications” with his former fixer, Michael Cohen.
According to the 25-page filing, Trump’s legal team claims they had contacted James’ office to “demand production of all Cohen Records,” including any communications with prosecutors, “would have been vital for Defendants to use in crossexamining” when he testified against Trump in the civil fraud and “hush money” cases brought against him.
James’ office “never produced any of the Cohen Records concerning its meetings with Cohen about President Trump and his businesses, despite Defendants’ documented demands that the NYAG do so,” the filing states, according to the New York Post.
The filing comes after Cohen claimed the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and the New York Attorney General’s Office “pressured and coerced” him to give testimony that would negatively impact Trump.
“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,” Trump’s former personal lawyer wrote in a Substack post in January.
“They blurred the line between justice and politics, and in that blur, the credibility of both suffered,” he wrote. “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.”
Trump’s legal team said Cohen’s testimony “is at the heart of the NYAG’s case” and it is what “prompted” James’ office to embark on the “politically charged” case against him and his businesses.
The lawyers revealed that they have received none of the documents they have requested from the AG’s office since Cohen’s Substack article.
“In emails and a meet-and-confer, the NYAG has taken the untenable position that (i) the NYAG ‘doesn’t know’ whether such Cohen Records exist (i.e., it has no idea whether it has records of its communications with its key witness); (ii) the NYAG will not even take a short amount of time to determine whether it possesses any Cohen Records, apparently because, in the NYAG’s mistaken view, discovery is over,” the filing states.
The lawyers noted concerns about the danger of records being “automatically deleted and purged,” as James has been “unwilling to take any steps to confirm whether such Cohen Records are being preserved.”
“In sum, the NYAG is blocking any discovery into, and possibly even preservation of, evidence of the ‘pressured and coerced’ testimony that it used to convince the trial court to enter a wrongful judgment against Defendants,” the filing states.
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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.
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