NEW YORK (AP) – President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen returned to the Democratic Party on Thursday, the latest in a series of steps he has taken to distance himself from the Republican president following a bitter falling-out.
Cohen’s defense attorney, Lanny Davis, announced on Twitter that his client has changed his registration from Republican to Democrat. He described the move as an effort to distance “himself from the values of the current” administration.
Cohen retweeted Davis’ post and a link to an Axios story that first reported the news.
The switch came on the eve of Friday’s deadline for New Yorkers to register to vote in the November election.
Cohen had been a registered Democrat for years until changing his registration in March 2017. “It took a great man to get me to the make the switch,” Cohen said at the time on Twitter, referring to Trump.