VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-08-20
“I’m the guy who stops the leaks. I’m the guy who protects the president and the family. I’m the guy who would take a bullet for the president,”
Michael Cohen · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-20
Cohen told Vanity Fair in September 2017 about his role protecting Trump after being accused of leaking to a reporter.
This quote was mechanically extracted from the cited article and verified as an exact substring of the source text before publication. Attribution follows the article's own wording.