President Donald Trumps onetime personal attorney Michael Cohen now claims that two major cable outlets, CNN and MS NOW, have effectively shut him out because his recent commentary no longer fits their preferred storyline.
According to the Daily Caller, Cohen has been pushing back on long-running allegations about President Trumps supposed ties to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, while also asserting that prosecutors pressured him to tailor his testimony against the president. During a Jan. 16 appearance, he alleged that legal authorities leaned on him to help secure a conviction, a narrative that sharply undercuts the lefts portrayal of the Trump prosecutions as impartial and above politics.
Cohen elaborated on this shift during an interview with President Trumps daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, on her program The Right View With Lara Trump, where she asked whether he believed Democrats and the media had used [him] as a tool to attack the president and advance a partisan agenda. I do. In fact something that I think both of us understand all too well is that with public life there are expectations placed upon you, and its sad because political groups and these media outlets these independent outlets as well its not just that they hope, they demand that your voice reinforces the narrative that they already believe, Cohen said.
He insisted that his willingness to break with that narrative has come at a cost in the left-leaning media ecosystem, which has long elevated him when his testimony served their purposes. I will always say what I believe. I will always say what I know to be accurate and truthful, even if it doesnt perfectly align with the expectations of either political party or the media outlet itself, he added. I mean basically CNN, MS NOW, theyve both basically blacklisted me because they dont like the narrative that Im portraying.
CNN pushed back on Cohens charge, denying that any blacklist exists or that his views have led to a deliberate freeze-out. This claim is false. CNN editorial teams make daily decisions about guests based on newsworthiness, a network spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation, offering a standard corporate defense that sidestepped Cohens broader critique of ideological gatekeeping.
The backlash against Cohen has not been limited to cable news, as MeidasTouch, a prominent left-wing media company, abruptly severed ties with him in January. That decision came just one day after Cohen published a Substack post accusing New York prosecutors of coercing him to help convict President Trump, a claim that, if accurate, would further erode confidence in the politicized prosecutions championed by Trumps opponents.
Cohens credibility has long been contested, and he is widely regarded as an unreliable witness with a documented history of lying under oath. Even so, his evolving account raises uncomfortable questions for those who once celebrated him as a star witness, particularly after he testified in May 2024 that Trump both directed him to pay porn star Stormy Daniels under a nondisclosure agreement and approved a reimbursement scheme tied to the falsifying business records charges at the heart of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Braggs case.
A Manhattan jury in deep-blue New York City convicted President Trump later that month, a verdict cheered by progressives who have treated legal warfare as a political weapon rather than a last resort. Yet Cohens more recent statements, including his claims of prosecutorial pressure, now cast a shadow over the integrity of that process and the broader lawfare campaign waged against the president.
Transcript searches on Grabien indicate that Cohen has not appeared on CNN or MS NOW since November 2025, a conspicuous absence for someone once ubiquitous on those networks. During his final months on MS NOW, in August, September and October, he went so far as to predict that Trumps enemies would ultimately face accountability for alleged legal violations, a message that hardly aligns with the networks progressive orthodoxy.
MS NOW did not immediately respond to the DCNFs request for comment, leaving unanswered why a figure they once elevated has seemingly vanished from their airwaves. As Cohen continues to reposition himself and challenge the narrative he helped construct, his claims of media blacklisting and prosecutorial pressure add fresh fuel to conservative concerns about partisan lawfare and the ideological capture of legacy news outlets.
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