In a dramatic plot twist in the Trump drama Former President Donald Trump is now suing his former lawyer, Michael Cohen. His suit alleges that Cohen’s breaches of ethics have damaged Trump’s reputation and is calling for $500 million in restitution.
The lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of Florida. It claimed that “Plaintiff has suffered vast reputational harm as a direct result of Defendant’s breaches.”
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It was noted in the lawsuit that Cohen lavished extensive praise on Trump before turning on him when it became popular to do so.
The legal documents pulled sources from various published reports and media appearances where Cohen made the comments about Trump. One example cited by the lawsuit explained that Cohen said, “he had ‘been admiring Donald Trump since [] high school.’ Defendant viewed Plaintiff as a ‘wonderful man’ who would be ‘an amazing president,’ and someone Defendant thought ‘the world’ of as ‘a businessman’ and ‘a boss.’”
Other examples used in the lawsuit stated Cohen said Trump was “’ smart,’ and ‘the greatest negotiator on the planet,’ and described his own role as the one ‘who protects the President and the family,’ and strongly stated that he ‘would take a bullet’ for Plaintiff.”
A third example showed that Cohen said, “he would ‘never walk away’ because Plaintiff ‘deserve[d]’ Defendant’s ‘loyalty’ because ‘[o]ne man who wants to do so much good with so many detractors against him needs support.’”
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Trump’s lawsuit against Cohen accused the lawyer of “multiple breaches of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, conversion, and breaches of contract by virtue of Defendant’s past service as Plaintiff’s employee and attorney.”
“Defendant breached his fiduciary duties owed to Plaintiff by virtue of their attorney-client relationship by both revealing Plaintiff’s confidences, and spreading falsehoods about Plaintiff, likely to be embarrassing or detrimental, and partook in other misconduct in violation of New York Rules of Professional Conduct,” the lawsuit stated.
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It continued by explaining that Cohen “breached the contractual terms of the confidentiality agreement he signed as a condition of employment with Plaintiff by both revealing Plaintiff’s confidences and spreading falsehoods about Plaintiff with malicious intent and to wholly self-serving ends.”
