Fox News Digital has learned that former President Trump is willingly dropping his lawsuit against his former lawyer Michael Cohen. However, he has promised to re-file against Cohen once he has “won” the “witch hunts” against him.
Trump sued Cohen for $500 million in April. He said Cohen broke their agreement as lawyer and client, gave himself too much money, and other things.
But on Thursday night, lawyers for Trump filed a move, saying that they were “voluntarily dismissing this action without prejudice.”
“Given that President Trump has to give a deposition in a civil case on Columbus Day, when he is supposed to be in the Great State of New Hampshire, and while the President is fighting against the false claims that have been made against him in New York, Washington, D.C., Florida, and Georgia, as well as continuing his winning campaign, where he is ahead of the Republicans by 60 points and behind Crooked Joe Biden by 11 points, to be our next President of the United States of America,
A spokesperson said that the case will be filed against Cohen again at a later time.
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“Once President Trump has won against the witch hunts against him, he will keep pursuing his claims against Michael Cohen. Cohen deserves to be held accountable for his illegal words and actions, and he will be, just as the Southern District of New York held him accountable for many acts and crimes that had nothing to do with Trump, making Cohen a very “proud” felon,” the spokesperson said.
In April, Trump’s lawyers filed a more than 30-page federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The lawsuit says Cohen broke his attorney-client relationship by “spreading falsehoods” about Trump that were “likely to be embarrassing or harmful” and “engaged in other misconduct.” Cohen also broke the terms of a confidentiality agreement he signed as a condition of his job with Trump.
In the case, it was said that Cohen told lies about Trump “with bad intentions and only to help himself.”
The lawsuit listed Cohen’s “many public statements,” which included writing two books, starting a podcast series, and making a lot of major media appearances, even though he was told to stop.
Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to setting up the hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal before the 2016 presidential election, among other federal charges. However, he still says that Trump told him to do it.
Cohen also admitted to giving false information to a financial organization, lying to Congress, and not paying taxes. He was given a three-year prison term.
Cohen didn’t answer Fox News Digital’s request for a response right away.
The move comes after Trump, who is the current front-runner for the Republican nomination in 2024, was charged four times this year and is also going to be tried for civil fraud.
Trump was first charged in March after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg spent years looking into hush-money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump pleaded not guilty to all 34 counts of first-degree crime falsifying business records in New York.
Bragg made these claims while Special Counsel Jack Smith was looking into whether Trump kept secret records from his time in office at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida, in a way that wasn’t right.
Trump said he wasn’t guilty of all 37 criminal charges that came out of that investigation. The charges include knowingly keeping knowledge about national defense, plotting to get in the way of the law, and making false statements.
That trial should start in May 2024.
In July, Trump was charged with two more counts of obstruction and one more count of willful retention of national defense information. This was part of a new indictment that came out of Smith’s probe.
Smith was also looking into whether Trump was behind the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and whether he tried to change the results of the 2020 election.
As a result of Smith’s investigation, Trump was charged with four federal crimes on August 1.
Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges, which included plot to defraud the United States, a conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
The hearing is set to start in March 2024, the day before the primary elections on Super Tuesday.
As a result of the investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, Trump was also charged with one count of breaking the Georgia RICO Act, three counts of criminal solicitation, six counts of criminal conspiracy, one count of filing false papers, and two counts of making false statements.
Trump has said he is not guilty of everything.
