How Michael Cohen Protects Trump By Making Legal Threats Against Journalists

President Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen is facing legal peril, including an FBI raid of his home and office — and involvement in a civil lawsuit with porn star Stormy Daniels. But in the past, it was Cohen who has sought to put legal pressure on others to solve problems for his boss. For the first time, audio recordings of Cohen's legal threats, from a 2015 Daily Beast interview, are being published. The audio, taken from a 2015 interview with Cohen and then-Daily Beast reporter Tim Mak and published by NPR — Mak's current employer — reveal Cohen making legal threats to Mak over a piece he was writing about a 1993 Trump biography. The biography, written by former Newsweek reporter Harry Hurt III and titled "The Lost Tycoon," details a sworn deposition from Trump's first wife, Ivana, who alleged during her divorce proceedings that Trump had raped her.