My family first, then Trump: Cohen

NEW YORK.- The long-time advocate of President Donald Trump and who has already said that he would do anything to protect the President, commented an interview published Monday which now puts " first his family and the country".

In his first interview since federal agents invaded his home and his hotel room as part of an investigation into his personal business, Michael Cohen was questioned about what he would do if the prosecutors asked him to do it. forced to choose between protecting the president or his family .

"My wife, my daughter and my son have my loyalty and will always have it," he said Cohen According to the driver of ABC News, George Stephanopoulos in an off-camera interview postponed by the "Good Morning America" ​​program. "I put my family first and my country."

During the interview of the TV channel, Chogen added that, if he was accused of something in the investigation, he would go to consult his new lawyer, Guy Petrillo.

Stephanopoulos says that he asked Cohen how he would react if the president or his legal team started to attack him or he was trying to discredit the work that he was doing. He had Trump during the last decade.

"I will not be a punching bag for someone's defense strategy," the lawyer said. "I'm not the villain of this story and I will not let others try to portray me that way."

Cohen played a role in the Trump organization for more than a decade. His house, his office and his hotel room were the subject of a raid in April as part of an investigation into his personal case by federal prosecutors in New York.

The investigators are also considering a $ 130,000 payment that was made under a confidentiality agreement with pornographic actress Stromy Daniels, who claims to have maintained a relationship with Trump in 2006, whose president refused

Earlier, Cohen stated that the payment was made on his own initiative. But in the interview with the television channel ABC News he said that he could not comment on his lawyer's suggestion.

"I want to answer, one day I will do it," he said Cohen .