President Donald Trump's one-time personal attorney and fixer Michael Cohen tweeted Sunday he is praying that former first lady Michelle Obama can unite America again.
Formerly one of Trump's closest confidants, Cohen is reportedly co-operating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into alleged Russian collusion, and in recent tweets and other public statements has signaled he has turned his back on his former boss.
"Watching Becoming @MichelleObama on #abc2020 and pray that her words bring back unity to our country," tweeted Cohen Sunday night, after ABC News broadcast an interview with Obama.
Cohen pled guilty in August to charges of bank fraud, tax fraud and campaign finance violations. In court testimony, he said he violated campaign finance laws "in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office"—Trump.
He changed registration from Republican to Democrat in October, and in a CNN interview pleaded with Americans to vote against Trump and the Republican Party to avoid "another two or another six years of this craziness."
Cohen arranged payments to adult actress Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels, and Playboy model Karen McDougal before the 2016 presidential election to stay silent about affairs they claim they had with the president.
Trump claims the money Cohen used to make the payments came from him personally and not his campaign.
In the ABC News interview, Michelle Obama criticized Trump's presidency.
"Being the commander-in-chief is a hard job," Obama said. "And you need to have discipline and you need to read and you need to be knowledgeable. You need to know history. You need to be careful with your words."
'But voters make those decisions," she added. "And once the voters have spoken, you know, we live with what we live with."
She said she stopped "trying to smile" at Trump's January 2017 inauguration when she noticed that the diversity of her husband's administration was gone.
When asked what she thought her legacy would be, she said she hoped she had inspired young people.
"Young people are the future," Obama said. "And if my story, my journey, somehow gives them hope, if I played a role in that for some young people comin' down the line, then I'll feel good about it."
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