Michael Cohen withdraws plan to flee US after Trump victory: “No chance”

WASHINGTON (TNND) — President-elect Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen said he will not go ahead with his plan to flee the United States following Trump’s victory in the presidential election.

Cohen told MSNBC in September that he would be “out of here” if Trump won the presidential election. He claimed to have drawn up a detailed plan that would allow him to travel under a new pseudonym.

“I’m already working on a foreign passport with a completely different name,” Cohen said. “I don’t know how it will work with my wife and children. I definitely don’t want them to move to where I want to go.”

However, that plan appears to have failed, as Cohen now says he has no intention of abandoning the United States.

“I said I was leaving, and then the next day I turned around, and the next day I turned around and said there’s no chance in the world that I’m leaving my country. Thank you very much,” Cohen said during a livestream this week.

“I’m not going anywhere, you are going,” Cohen added. “This is my country.”

Cohen is one of several notable figures who claimed to be leaving the country under a second Trump administration. In 2023, Cher also vowed to abandon the US if Trump returned to the White House.

“I almost got an ulcer last time,” she told the Guardian. “If he gets in, who knows? This time I will go [the country].”

Actress Sharon Stone told TheDailyMail.com in July that she, too, planned to leave the country after the election.

“I’m definitely thinking about a house in Italy,” she said. “I think this is an intelligent construct at the moment. This is one of the first times in my life that I have actually seen someone run for office on a platform of hate and oppression.”

Supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris are now starting to spread conspiracy theories that the election may have been rigged against them. Such posts receive millions of views on X and other social media platforms.

Many posts on Others seemed to suggest that Russian influence or fraud by the Trump campaign was responsible for the Republican success.

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