--- title: Michael Cohen Lawyer Has a GoFundMe Page description: The lawyer for Michael Cohen has a GoFundMe page to help with legal costs associated with Donald Trump and he's not the first one. canonical: https://time.com/5374336/michael-cohen-gofundme/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-22T13:26:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:28.662Z og:title: Michael Cohen's Lawyer Started a GoFundMe Campaign to Help Him og:description: Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis, set the page up og:url: https://time.com/5374336/michael-cohen-gofundme/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdaf4a6c36e1cb281/698935ea929fad172cbf121a/cohen-trump-tweets.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Cohen-Trump-tweets og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Michael Cohen's Lawyer Started a GoFundMe Campaign to Help Him twitter:description: Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis, set the page up twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdaf4a6c36e1cb281/698935ea929fad172cbf121a/cohen-trump-tweets.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Michael Cohen's Lawyer Started a GoFundMe Campaign to Help Him > Sponsored content. 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Michael Cohen, a longtime personal lawyer and confidante for President Donald Trump, leaves the United States District Court Southern District of New York in New York City on May 30, 2018. Spencer Platt/Getty Images by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Aug 22, 2018 1:26 PM UTC A new online fundraiser to help Michael Cohen with the legal fees of his case has raised more than $19,000 since his admission in court. On Tuesday, [Cohen](http://time.com/5373301/michael-cohen-plea-deal/) pleaded guilty to eight federal charges, including five counts of tax evasion, two counts of campaign finance violations, and making false financial statements, and said he worked to influence the 2016 election “at the direction of the candidate.” So Cohen’s lawyer former White House Special Counsel [Lanny Davis](http://time.com/5348479/trump-cohen-tape/) set up a GoFundMe page called the “Michael Cohen Truth Fund” with a goal of the online fundraiser with the goal of $500,000\. Davis urged viewers to donate to Cohen on MSNBC’s _Morning Joe_ on and the _Today_ Show on Wednesday morning, and as of 9:15 a.m. on Wednesday, it had collected more than $19,000 in donations. “On August 21, Michael Cohen made the decision to take legal responsibility and to continue his commitment to tell the truth,” the GoFundMe page reads. “Michael decided to put his family and his country first. Now Michael needs your financial help—to pay his legal fees.” Online fundraisers like these are not without precedent, and people have been willing to contribute. Earlier in August, a [GoFundMe campaign](https://www.gofundme.com/peterstrzok) for ousted longtime FBI agent [Peter Strzok](http://time.com/5365555/fbi-peter-strzok-trump-texts-mueller-russia/) raised $441,760 to help pay his legal costs after his lawyer said Strzok was removed from the Russia investigation over politically minded text messages. And in April, ousted onetime FBI Deputy Director [Andrew McCabe’s](http://time.com/5204600/donald-trump-andrew-mccabe-special-counsel/) legal defense fund tripled its original goal, raising more than $530,000, before it stopped accepting donations. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5374336/michael-cohen-gofundme/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5374336/michael-cohen-gofundme/"},"headline":"Michael Cohen's Lawyer Started a GoFundMe Campaign to Help Him","datePublished":"2018-08-22T13:26:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:28.662Z","description":"The lawyer for Michael Cohen has a GoFundMe page to help with legal costs associated with Donald Trump and he's not the first one.","url":"https://time.com/5374336/michael-cohen-gofundme/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdaf4a6c36e1cb281/698935ea929fad172cbf121a/cohen-trump-tweets.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdaf4a6c36e1cb281/698935ea929fad172cbf121a/cohen-trump-tweets.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Cohen-Trump-tweets","caption":"Former Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Returns To Court In New York City","creditText":"Spencer Platt/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5374336/michael-cohen-gofundme/","name":"Michael Cohen's Lawyer Started a GoFundMe Campaign to Help Him"}}]}] ```