RUSSIA PROBE: Trump’s ex-lawyer Cohen alleges intimidation, reconsidering plan to testify

A week after he agreed to appear before a congressional panel on Feb. 7, over numerous investigations of President Donald Trump’s business interests and his administration, Michael Cohen is reportedly reconsidering his plan to testify.

That much information was revealed by Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis who said his client is reconsidering his plan to testify because of intimidation by Trump.

“There is genuine fear and it has caused Michael Cohen to consider whether he should go forward or not, and he has not made a final decision,” Davis said.

In a Fox News interview on Saturday, Trump suggested he had damaging information on Cohen’s father-in-law. “That’s the one that people want to look at,” Trump said in the interview.

Davis said: “There is no question that his threatening and calling out his father-in-law, who – quote – has all the money, is not only improper and unseemly for a bully using the bully pulpit of the presidency, but the very definition of intimidation and witness tampering.”

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He said Trump’s remarks “could be obstruction of justice.”

The development comes after the sentencing of Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn was delayed by a U.S. judge.

Flynn was fiercely criticized by U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan for lying to FBI agents in a probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and delayed sentencing him until he has finished helping prosecutors with the probe.

Judge Sulliivan also fired at Flynn, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, saying that he had arguably betrayed his country.

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