NEW: Before reporting to prison, Michael Cohen told actor Tom Arnold he 'had a mission.' 🎧:
Michael Cohen, the former fixer and personal attorney of President Donald Trump, had just six weeks of freedom before his three-year prison term was set to begin. He was feeling reflective, grappling with the repercussions of his public and precipitous split with the president.
"It's very hard when you spend 10 years taking care of somebody and their family," Cohen said, referring to his time with Trump, before adding,"look, I always knew, you know, who he was and what he was and so on." "My family's happiness, my law license, I lost my business, I lost everything – my insurance, my bank accounts," Cohen complained."All for what? Because Trump had an affair with a porn star? That's really what this is about."
"After a hundred hours of testimony, including 7 1/2 hours of being beaten up on international television," Cohen said, referring to his public testimony before the House Oversight Committee in February,"you would think that you would have folks stepping up and saying, 'This guy's lost everything.'" "I turned and said, 'Do you mind if I say something here in my defense?'" Cohen said."'You didn't think I was this bad of a guy when I was out there raising $140 million for the RNC as the vice chair, right?'"
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