President Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen isn't looking for a pardon after pleading guilty Tuesday to eight felony charges of campaign finance violations and fraud, and he wouldn't accept one if it's offered, his attorney, Lanny Davis, said Wednesday.
"Not only is he not hoping for it, he would not accept a pardon," Davis told NBC's "Today" anchor Savannah Guthrie.
"He considers a pardon from somebody who has acted so corruptly as president to be something he would never accept.”
Further, Davis said Cohen, who had been one of the president's key supporters, has "turned his life from what he did for Donald Trump" and he "regrets" much of what he had done.
"He decided fundamentally that his family and his country were his priorities when he first was interviewed by another network," said Davis. "What caused that is a complicated evolution, but he certainly found Donald Trump as president to be unsuitable to hold the office."
Cohen also became more worried about the country's future after Trump "was aligning himself" with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki earlier this year, said Davis.
Davis also told NPR Wednesday that Cohen would under "no circumstances" accept a pardon, as Trump "not only directed a crime, he's part of a cover up."
Meanwhile, Davis said a website, the Michael Cohen Truth Fund, has been set up through GoFundMe to "help him and his family" while he "tells the truth about Donald Trump."
As of this morning, almost $16,000 had been raised toward the fund's half-million-dollar goal.
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