In a 1 a.m. Truth Social post on Tuesday, June 2, 2026, President Trump demanded that his 2024 New York conviction on 34 felony counts be “immediately dismissed,” after his former lawyer Michael Cohen said on Michael Smerconish's podcast that he had been “pressured and coerced” into testifying.
Trump wrote, “When a Star Witness totally recants, and in every way reveals that he was pressured and coerced to give testimony... how can that Case not be immediately dismissed.” He added that Cohen “has come out and unequivocally stated that the Radical Left Prosecutors... pressured and coerced him to testify against your favorite President, ME.”
Cohen, who served prison time over the hush-money payment to the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, made the comments on a podcast; his complaint that he felt pressured by prosecutors traces to a January 2026 Substack post. Cohen has not said his testimony was false, so Trump's framing of it as a total recantation overstates what Cohen said. A witness's later public comments also do not legally reopen or invalidate a jury verdict that has already been entered. Trump was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records in 2024, the first felony conviction of a sitting or former U.S. president; he was sentenced to an unconditional discharge.