I don't think this will turn out well for Trump if he's foolish enough to do what Cohen suggests he's capable of here. Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen made an appearance on this weekend's The Sunday Show on MSNBC and was asked by guest host Michael Steele why he thought Trump took classified documents to Mar-a-Lago in the first place.
"Based on everything you know about him, why do you think he wanted to keep those top secret documents at Mar-a-Lago," host Steele asked.
"He's gonna use it as a get out of jail free card," Cohen immediately shot back. "It's a way to extort America turn around to say if you put me in jail, if you go after me -- he'll even say his children -- I will have my loyal supporters who you do not know who has copies of information that may have been, and again this is my conjecture, that I would take those documents, I will release them to Iran, to China, to North Korea, to Russia.
"You want to take me down, I'll take the whole country down," he added.
"Remember, and I've said this with you 1000 times, Mike, Donald Trump doesn't care about this country," he continued. "He doesn't care about anyone or anything other than himself."
While it's true that Trump is capable of this sort of abhorrent and criminal behavior, and it's true that he doesn't care about this country and only cares about himself, I don't think he'd try it because I think he knows full well it would backfire on him.
That said, I also think it's highly unlikely that we're ever going to see Trump spend a day in jail, but not because he tries to blackmail anyone. I'll be very happy if the DOJ proves me wrong.
