WASHINGTON – The addresses and phone numbers of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s family members have been posted on a doxxing website after presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was convicted of 34 crimes in connection with a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election.
Cohen, Trump’s former “fixer,” played a key role in the plot to silence adult film actor Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election and testified at Trump’s trial. According to Cohen, Trump said the revelation of Daniels’ affair story would be a “total disaster” and “catastrophic” for his 2016 campaign.
Trump, who has denied an affair, was convicted of falsifying company records related to Cohen’s hush money payment to keep Daniels from telling her story. “What I did was at the direction and for the benefit of Mr. Trump,” Cohen, who served time in prison, said during the trial.
Phone numbers and addresses for Cohen’s wife and children were posted early Monday on a site that has been used to target other figures involved in Trump’s various legal issues, according to Advance Democracy, a nonprofit research group.
“What sad times we are living through when people resort to this kind of doxxing stupidity to redress their grievances,” Cohen said in a statement to NBC News about the efforts to spread his family’s personal information.
Trump supporters tried to deceive jurors after his conviction last week, and they also targeted prosecutors and the judge in the case with threats. During the trial, the mother of a former police officer who was nearly killed on January 6, 2021 by rioters who believed Trump’s lies about the 2020 election, was “beaten” after her son called Trump “an authoritarian” with “a violence fetish.” . .”
“Our investigators regularly scan for potential threats and incitements to political violence,” Daniel J. Jones, president of Advance Democracy, said in a statement. “During our most recent scan, we identified online personal information – doxxing – of Michael Cohen, his wife and his children. The person who shared the information online, on a site known for doxxing, likely intended to harm Cohen by sharing these personal details about the Cohen family in the context of calling Cohen a “lying bastard” and identifying of him as someone who ‘betrayed Trump,’ presumably because he testified for the prosecution in former President Trump’s criminal trial in New York.”
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
