Michael Cohen says Trump’s scared he’ll go ‘straight to prison’ amid tax return scandal

NEW YORK — Donald Trump is likely terrified he could become the first American president to end up behind bars once he’s out of office, his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, said Monday on the heels of a bombshell report about the commander in chief’s finances. Cohen, who was himself released from prison in July to serve out the rest of his sentence in home confinement, told the New York Daily News that Sunday’s New York Times expose on Trump’s tax returns backs up his long-held claim that the president has committed various types of fraud over the course of his career. “Based on what I know and what has now been reported, he may soon be the first sitting president to go from the...