President Donald Trump blasted the plea deal taken by his former personal attorney Michael Cohen and suggested the practice of "flipping" low-level criminals by exchanging shorter sentences for testimony against others should end.
"For 30 or 40 years I’ve been watching flippers,” Trump said in an interview aired on “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning. “Everything’s wonderful then they get 10 years in jail and they flip on whoever the next highest one is or as high as you can go.”
"It almost ought to be outlawed,” Trump said. “It’s not fair."
Trump also complained that Republicans are targeted too often by federal prosecutors in the interview, which was taped a day after both the Cohen plea deal and his former campaign chairman’s conviction on tax- and bank-fraud charges.
Although Trump didn’t name Republicans he thought were unfairly charged, two of the first House Republicans to back his 2016 campaign have been indicted this month. Representative Chris Collins of New York has been charged with insider trading and Representative Duncan Hunter of California was indicted this week on charges he and his wife used campaign funds to pay personal expenses.
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05.19.2025