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Eugene Robinson: Cohen needs to ask himself: Does Trump have my back?

Washington • Michael Cohen reportedly said he’d rather jump out of a building than turn on President Trump. I wonder what he’s thinking as the floors whiz by.

Cohen has been Trump’s lawyer, finder of deals and devoted “Ray Donovan”-style fixer of problems for a decade. At least that’s what Cohen thought he was. In a phone interview Thursday with his favorite cable show, “Fox & Friends,” Trump sounded as if he hardly knew the guy.

Cohen does no more than “a tiny, tiny little fraction” of his legal work, Trump claimed. “I have so many attorneys, you wouldn’t believe.