Donald Trump just surrendered in the Michael Cohen case

Donald Trump just dropped his lawsuit against Michael Cohen. Cohen announced the news on Twitter this evening. Trump was about to have to give a deposition in the case, and was apparently that afraid of testifying.

It also appears that Trump got caught in the act of telling the courts that he couldn’t testify in the Cohen case this week because he needed to testify in the New York civil fraud case, only to bail on the latter without testifying. We’ll see if the courts end up sanctioning Trump for having lied to them about it.

In any case, this is the latest instance of Donald Trump surrendering across the board. He basically forfeited the civil fraud case by bailing without testifying. And now he’s formally forfeiting the Cohen case by withdrawing it. Trump knows he can’t win any of these cascading legal battles and he’s just giving up.