Everything you need to know about Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney
Trump and Cohen go back more than a decade. Michael Cohen, once undeniably devoted to Donald Trump, is now at the center of a government case against the former president, following the Manhattan district attorney 's indictment of Trump on Thursday. A Manhattan-based lawyer, Cohen began working for Trump well before the 2016 campaign and election. During the campaign, he was a prominent spokesperson, often appearing on news shows and vehemently defending then-candidate Trump. In fact, for more than a decade, Cohen stood by Trump's side as his personal attorney, fixer and confidant, famously proclaiming that he would "take a bullet for the president" and "never walk away." (MORE: Michael Cohen on Capitol Hill for dramatic testimony about President Trump) But over the first two years of Trump's administration, as investigators targeted Cohen's personal finances, he flipped on his former boss and cooperated in multiple investigations, including spec...