President-elect Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen said he will not follow through with his plan to flee the U.S. following Trump’s presidential election victory.
Cohen told MSNBC in September he would be “out of here” if Trump won the presidential election. He claimed to have worked out a detailed plan that would allow him to travel under a new alias.
“I’m already working on a foreign passport with a completely different name,” Cohen said. “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.”
That plan, however, appears to have fallen through as Cohen now says he has no intention of abandoning the United States.
“I said I was leaving and then the following day—get that through your dumb heads—the following day I turned around and I say there’s no chance in the world I’m leaving my country, thank you very much,” Cohen said during a livestream this week.
“I’m not leaving anywhere, you leave,” Cohen added. “This is my country.”
