Michael Cohen, President-elect Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer, on Saturday during an appearance on MSNBC said he asked President Joe Biden for a pardon “because I believe that Joe Biden has the same responsibility to me that he had to his own son.”

“And I would expect that the same exact pardon that he gave his son has to go to me and to anybody else that’s on that enemies list,” he added.

Cohen turned on Trump and testified as a star witness for the prosecution in the New York business records trial earlier this year. The president-elect was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the case, which centered on a payment Cohen maintains was made at Trump’s direction to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.

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