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Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA,
Michael Cohen, a key witness in the New York criminal and civil cases against President Donald Trump, has "fully recanted" his testimony in both cases, the Republican president announced Friday via Truth Social.
Previously known as Trump's longtime fixer, Cohen was used by New York Attorney General Letitia James in her controversial civil lawsuit against the Trump Organization and by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in his so-called hush money case against Trump.
The civil case against the Trump Organization culminated in a $364 million fine over claims Trump inflated his asset values to secure more favorable loans for his business. The fine was tossed by the New York Appellate Division, which ruled the amount violated Trump's Eighth Amendment rights.
In his Truth Social post, Trump said Cohen was "pressured" and "coerced" into saying "things that were not true."
The fallout between Trump and Cohen began after the 2016 election, after Cohen started cooperating with federal prosecutors.
Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison and served more than a year behind bars after pleading guilty to multiple charges, including making false statements to Congress.
Trump and Cohen have made amends in recent months, particularly after Cohen came forward saying he was pressured by New York prosecutors to testify against Trump.
Trump thanked Cohen "for having the Wisdom and Courage to step forward and do the right thing!"
"His Act of Bravery is a Great Credit to the Justice System in New York City and State," Trump added, before demanding that the cases be dismissed.
"I am sure it was not easy for him! Now we are asking that any remnant of those Politically Weaponized Cases against me be immediately terminated and dismissed."
The president said that James and Bragg "broke the law in order to do this in order to prevent me from becoming the President of the United States. Such a thing can never be allowed to happen again!"
Trump appeared to be referring to a Jan. 16, 2026, Substack post in which Cohen accused prosecutors from James' and Bragg's offices of pressuring and coercing him to provide testimony that would help them build their cases against Trump.
TRUMP: Reposts Michael Cohen article claiming political power corrupts justice, citing insider warning pic.twitter.com/FlydWGDuBI
— Trump Truths (@trumptruthsbot) September 4, 2026Cohen wrote at the time:
"From the time I first began meeting with lawyers from the Manhattan DA's Office and the New York Attorney General's Office in connection with their investigations of President Trump, and through the trials themselves, I felt pressured and coerced to only provide information and testimony that would satisfy the government's desire to build the cases against and secure a judgment and convictions against President Trump."
He later added:
"I experienced a similar dynamic in the Attorney General's civil case. Letitia James made it publicly known during her 2018 campaign for attorney general that, if elected, she would go after President Trump. Her office made clear that the testimony they wanted from me was testimony that would help them do just that. Again, I felt compelled and coerced to deliver what they were seeking."
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A GoFundMe In Support of Lindsay Clancy Nears $1.2 Million After Mistrial
A Massachusetts jury deliberated for roughly 38 hours over seven days and failed to reach a unanimous verdict in the case against Lindsay Clancy, resulting in Judge William Sullivan declaring a mistrial on Friday due to a holdout juror.
Clancy has admitted to strangling her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, with exercise bands inside the family's home in Duxbury, Mass., in January 2023 after sending her husband out to pick up dinner. She then cut her own wrists and neck, then jumped from a window, which left her paralyzed from the waist down.
Reddington built his case on a claim of severe postpartum psychosis, worsened, he argued, by a combination of prescription medications. Prosecutors rejected that framing entirely and argued Clancy understood what she was doing and planned the killings in advance. Clancy had not been diagnosed with psychosis before the murders and reportedly had not told any doctor she was hearing voices.
Judge Sullivan has scheduled a status and trial assignment hearing for Sept. 29.
Lindsay Clancy's supporters are clearly expecting a new trial. The Musgrove Family Fund, a GoFundMe campaign supporting Clancy's parents, Michael and Paula Musgrove, surpassed $1.16 million in donations from more than 33,000 donors within hours of the mistrial. Organizer Brandee Mulligan, a 42-year-old mother of three, raised the fund's goal to $3 million that same day and told supporters the extended legal process means the Musgroves will need help for a while longer.
"The original purpose of this fundraiser hasn't changed - it's simply to take one thing off their plate while they continue to show up for their family. If they have to keep showing up longer, I want to make sure the support does too."
The Musgroves left Wallingford, Connecticut, and moved roughly 150 miles to stay near Duxbury. Clancy's sister, Allison Ozga, appeared at the proceedings alongside them. GoFundMe's page states the Musgroves are the named beneficiaries who receive the money themselves, that Mulligan has no access to any of it, and that both the parents and Reddington knew about the campaign before it went live.
Mulligan, who is from Wisconsin and launched the fund on Aug. 11, previously told the Daily Mail that she had no contact with the Musgroves when she first created it and "did it without even asking permission." A GoFundMe spokesperson has confirmed the campaign is verified and that all funds go to Mike Musgrove as the intended beneficiary.
"In January 2023, Lindsay Clancy was accused of killing her three young children in the family's Duxbury, Massachusetts home," the GoFundMe page reads. "More than three years later, her case is now being tried in court. Throughout those three years, Lindsay's parents, Mike and Paula Musgrove, have continued to show up for their daughter."
"And that is who this fundraiser is for, Mike and Paula, who have spent years traveling back and forth, staying in hotels, attending court proceedings and ultimately relocating from Connecticut to Massachusetts so they could remain close to Lindsay," the page continues. "Their lives have largely been put on hold while they have continued doing what parents do: showing up for their child during the unimaginable. That has come at an enormous financial cost. This fundraiser is not asking anyone to agree on Lindsay, her case, or what the outcome of her trial should be. People will have different feelings about all of those things."
The new donations range from five dollars to three hundred, one-time gifts sitting beside recurring monthly pledges, though some of the biggest donations to the fund are in the thousands. One anonymous donor gave $5,000.
One donor wrote that their heart was with Lindsay and her parents and that they could not imagine the pain the family has endured. Another, on a fifth contribution, wrote that they could not imagine what Lindsay and her family are feeling right now.
The fund's success has spawned imitators on the platform, both for and against the family, including pages titled "Lindsay Clancy is an awful person!" and "Against the Musgrove Family Fund." GoFundMe told CT Insider it is monitoring and "reviewing" all Clancy-related fundraisers, and that "any found to be in violation of our terms of service will be removed."
CopycatThe trial appears to have produced at least one copycat. Corie A. Walsh, 38, of Frankfort, Illinois, was charged Friday with three counts of first-degree murder after her 2-year-old son Barrett was found hanging in the basement of the family home, a ligature around his neck. A 17-year-old neighbor was performing CPR when police arrived. Officers found Walsh upstairs in a bathtub, surrounded by bloody water, with cuts to her wrists and thighs. Her three other children were unharmed. Her husband was out of town.
Prosecutors said in a court proffer that Walsh "had recently become very invested in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial" and had been "actively discussing the case via group text message with her friends" until hours before her son was found. The boy died Tuesday afternoon, while the Clancy jury was still deliberating. Walsh told officers she killed him because he was the "devil" and the "anti-Christ."
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