Former President Donald Trump’s one-time attorney, Michael Cohen, said he is preparing to leave the country and change his name if his former boss wins the 2024 presidential election.

During a melodramatic interview on MSNBC’s “Deadline White House,” Cohen spoke about his time serving as Trump’s lawyer. After Cohen entered a guilty plea in 2018 to charges of tax evasion, campaign finance violations, and lying to Congress, their relationship fell apart. Afterward, Cohen assisted with Trump’s investigations, testifying in court against him during Alvin Bragg’s hush money case and emerging as a strong opponent.

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace asked Cohen, “What do you think happens to you if he wins?”

“Well, I’m out of here,” Cohen responded.

“I’m already working on a foreign passport with a completely different name. 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,” Cohen added. “And the worst is the Supreme Court’s recent decision that gave him immunity, presidential immunity. Now, he thinks it’s not only is it I can do whatever I want, but I can’t even be prosecuted. It’s a get-out-of-jail-free card solely for the president.”

In Trump v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a former president is shielded from prosecution for official conduct performed in office, but not for unofficial acts.

The Court returned the case to a lower court with a 6-3 decision, not applying the verdict to whether former President Trump is exempt from prosecution concerning conduct connected to efforts to void the 2020 election results.

In August, Gorsuch told Fox News that the precedent was established in a previous case to prevent the president from being used as a weapon in the civil cases.

“Why? Because that would chill him from exercising the powers and duties of a president while he is president,” Gorsuch said. “He would be overwhelmed. His political enemies would simply bring suits against him forever more. The court held that about 50 years ago.”

“All the court did in this case was simply apply that same precedent and idea to the criminal context,” he argued,” Gorsuch continued.

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After Cohen pleaded guilty to federal crimes, the former president swiftly fired back, blasting Cohen as a “weak person,” and claiming his former attorney was “lying” to get a reduced sentence.

“So you’re out of here. You leave the country,” Wallace pressed Cohen during the segment.

“I have no choice,” Cohen responded.

Michael Cohen says he has no choice but to flee the country if Donald Trump wins the election and that he’s already working on getting a foreign passport with a new name. pic.twitter.com/TacYwc2rsJ

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Meanwhile, some Democratic senators have expressed concerns that support for former President Donald Trump is being underrepresented in polling data, as has been the case during the past two presidential election cycles.

After Trump outperformed polling projections in both 2016 and 2020, Democrats told The Hill that the 2024 election is expected to be close, regardless of current poll numbers. As of Monday afternoon, Trump trails Vice President Kamala Harris by 2.2 points nationally, according to the RealClearPolitics average. This margin is narrower than Biden’s lead over Trump at this point in 2020 (7 points) and Hillary Clinton’s lead over Trump in 2016 (3 points).

“That’s ominous,” said one anonymous Democratic senator while discussing how Trump appears to be performing better in the polls against Harris. “There’s no question that is concerning, but you’re working as hard as you can work, no matter what. My sense there’s not a lot more you can do than we’re already doing.”

The senator added that he believes undercounting support for Trump may be due to people feeling “embarrassed.”

“Most of what he preaches, most of us have taught our children to try to not be that way on the playground,” the senator said. “So there’s a certain amount of reluctance to admit I’m going to vote for somebody whose conduct I tell my children is wrong.”