'I’m out of here': Michael Cohen plans to avoid MAGA reprisal by going abroad if Trump wins

During a November 2023 interview with ITV, Michael Cohen — Donald Trump's former personal attorney and fixer — told the British media outlet he will "absolutely" seek political asylum in another country if his former boss wins the 2024 presidential election. Cohen, a former Trump ally turned scathing critic, said he will literally "fear for [his] life" if Trump returns to the White House in January 2025 and seeks retribution against his enemies.

Ten months after that interview, Cohen is no less worried. Cohen, during a late September appearance on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House," warned that the U.S. Supreme Court's controversial 6-3 immunity ruling in Trump v. the United States has made the possibility of a second Trump term even more dangerous.

Cohen told host Nicolle Wallace, a Never Trump conservative, "I'm out of here. I mean, I'm already working on a foreign passport with a completely different name."

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Cohen went on to say, "I don't know how it's going to work, as far as dealing with my wife and my children. I certainly don't want them moving to where I'm looking to go."

Cohen isn't the only Trump foe who, fearing possible retaliation, has been looking into possible options for leaving the United States. Former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham and The Lincoln Project's Fred Wellman both told "This American Life" they have been checking out the immigration laws in other countries.

Cohen warned that he won't be the only possible target for retaliation if Trump defeats Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in November.

Cohen told Wallace, "Yourself, the president of MSNBC, Gen. (Mark) Milley, you know, Liz Cheney. How many people has he turned around and said that this is — that these are people that I intend to go after if I have the ability to?"

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The Trump v. the United States ruling, according to Cohen, only increases the danger.

"Take it from him," Cohen told Wallace. "It's his words; he's warning you in advance what he intends to do. And that intention is the complete and total destruction of our rule of law and the Constitution.

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