President Donald Trump has been the target of multiple politicized cases, from Democrats who weaponized local, state and federal prosecutorial functions to target him.
After all, as one example. he had papers from his presidency in his home in Mar-A-Lago, and was charged. Joe Biden kept confidential government secrets in an unsecured garage at his home, and was given a pass.
Now Trump is pointing out that the prosecution’s “star witness” against him in a New York case has recanted his testimony in the “witch hunt,” so the logical next step is for “any remnant of those Politically Weaponized Cases against me be immediately terminated and dismissed.”
On social media, he said, “I am pleased to report that Michael Cohen, the Prosecution’s Star Witness and, in actuality, only Witness in the New York State Attorney General and Manhattan DA Witch Hunt Cases brought against me, has just fully RECANTED his testimony. He was ‘pressured’ and ‘coerced’ to say things that were not true. I would like to thank Michael for having the Wisdom and Courage to step forward and do the right thing! His Act of Bravery is a Great Credit to the Justice System in New York City and State. I am sure it was not easy for him! Now we are asking that any remnant of those Politically Weaponized Cases against me be immediately terminated and dismissed. Their Star Witness said everything they did was WRONG and UNLAWFUL! Letitia James and Alvin Bragg broke the Law in order to do this in order to prevent me from becoming the President of the United States. Such a thing can never be allowed to happen again! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP”
WND had reported last month that Trump had cited the statements by Michael Cohen, his former lawyer, recanting his trial testimony.
The original statements came in a case created by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, long an ardent anti-Trumper, who boasted when a jury returned convictions on 34 counts he brought against Trump.
The counts were for “falsifying business records” over payments Trump made to his lawyer over claims made by ex-stripper Stormy Daniels, claims rejected by Trump as false.
Of course the charges were misdemeanors for which the statute of limitations had expired, so Bragg wildly claimed they were felonies because they were in support of another, unspecified and unidentified, “crime.”
Then there was the anti-Trump judge in the case, Juan Merchan, who literally orchestrated what witnesses were allowed, or not allowed, to say. And don’t forget the judge’s daughter “ran a fundraising organization that raised money for Democrat candidates” off what her father did in the courtroom.
The case still is pending on appeal, but is being used routinely by Democrats and other leftists to label Trump a “convict.”
But Cohen’s latest statements are clouds on Bragg’s horizon.
The Daily Signal pointed out that friend-of-the-court briefs were calling for the reversal of the case result.
For one thing the case was used by Bragg, in state court, to address allegations of federal campaign finance laws, and Bragg’s critics pointed out he was trying to criminalize conduct over which he had no jurisdiction.
Further, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported when MeidasTouch, a left-wing media company, confirmed it was cutting ties with Bragg’s star witness, Cohen, after he claimed prosecutors pressured him to curate his testimony against Trump.
Cohen, who was Trump’s former personal attorney and “fixer” for over a decade, served as a key witness against the president during the Democrats’ prosecution of Trump.
Cohen posted his comments to Substack, writing it was clear prosecutors “were interested only in testimony from me that would enable them to convict” Trump.
“MeidasTouch Network will no longer be producing or carrying the shows Political Beatdown or Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen,” the left-wing company wrote in an X post.
“From the time I first began meeting with lawyers from the Manhattan DA’s office and the New York Attorney General’s Office in connection with their investigations of President Trump, and through the trials themselves, 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 judgement and convictions against President Trump,” Cohen wrote on his Substack.
“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,” the former Trump lawyer added.
It’s gotten much worse for Bragg now.
A report at the Gateway Pundit charged, “Legal analyst says Michael Cohen just ‘demolished’ Bragg’s case…”
Trump, on a radio show with Cohen, expressed gratitude that Cohen had “recanted” what he said.
LIVE NOW: Michael and President Trump discuss 2016.
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— TalkRadio 77 WABC (@77WABCradio) August 20, 2026
That led to CNN legal analyst Elie Honig confirming Cohen’s statements “demolish the factual basis of the hush money prosecution and conviction of President Trump.”
President Trump Truth’d this clip last night.
Very, very interesting.
All of those “CONVICTED FELON!” folks are about to lose their talking point. pic.twitter.com/8TtOoPR1pj
— CannCon (@canncon) August 21, 2026
The Pundit report said “Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is waking up to a nightmare unfolding this morning. His ‘Got Trump’ convictions are hanging on by an even thinner thread than he ever imagined after a crushing interview between President Trump and an unsuspecting character yesterday.”
The case, the report said, “rested on whether or not the jury would believe Cohen, who had previously been convicted of perjury for lying to Congress. Cohen also had open hostility toward Trump and a history of lying to business associates and the public.”
President Trump apparently decided to let bygones be bygones and joined Cohen on Cohen’s WABC radio show. the report said.. Trump explains Cohen had “recanted” and Cohen responds, “Yeah.”
Honig confirmed, “Anyone who cheered that hush money prosecution of Donald Trump two years ago has nothing left to stand on.”
“The guy (Cohen) who was the reason every prosecutor who looked at this case, including the Biden DOJ and the prior liberal Democratic DA, passed on charging this case, was because they didn’t trust Michael Cohen beyond a reasonable doubt. Alvin Bragg rolled that dice and now Michael Cohen has said publicly that he ‘felt pressured and coerced by prosecutors.’”
Regarding Cohen, he said, “If you believe he’s a truth-teller, then he felt pressured and coerced by prosecutors. That’s not acceptable. If you believe he’s a liar, then your case is built on a liar.”
He said, “The factual predicate has collapsed…”
