Former Donald Trump attorney and fixer Michael Cohen was put-out by the “unconditional discharge” handed down against the president-elect on Friday, bitterly remarking to host Chris Hayes that he had to ask an AI bot about the term just to understand it.

Cohen appeared on the latest All In with Chris Hayes on Friday in the wake of the decision by Judge Juan Merchan to enter the judgment of conviction with an “unconditional discharge” on each of the 34 counts at Trump’s sentencing. In other words, a conviction without a punishment.

Hayes asked Cohen, a convicted felon in the very same hush money scandal, for his reaction, saying, “I thought of you today” as the case was to put rest.

“Look, I’m obviously very torn between what I would have liked to have seen happen — Don’t forget, I received a six-year sentence, three years of incarceration, three years of supervised release,” said Cohen.

“In my entire legal career, I have never even heard of an unconditional discharge,” he added. “I was so confused about it, I actually went to ChatGPT, despite the fact that Judge Furman doesn’t think anybody should go through ChatGPT, right?”

The reference to AI is a callback to when Judge Jesse Furman suggested cases cited by Cohen’s lawyers were “made up” and sparked speculation about using the AI engine for research.

Continuing, Cohen said, “I looked it up, and I was unable to find anybody in history who has ever gotten an unconditional discharge.”

He did go on then to say he felt Merchan was “judicious in his decision” and that it was “appropriate” given the circumstances, but that “they probably could have and should have just dismissed the case all, you know, in and of itself.”

HAYES: Well, Michael, I thought of you today, because you did — you pled to, in federal court the very — facilitating the very things that the former president and incoming president was convicted before a jury of his peers. It was part of the sentence to which you agreed that you had to serve.

Donald Trump was afforded these extraordinary protections, as the judge said, because he was elected to president. How are you feeling about it all?

COHEN: Look, I’m obviously very torn between what I would have liked to have seen happen — Don’t forget, I received a six-year sentence, three years of incarceration, three years of supervised release.

In my entire legal career, I have never even heard of an unconditional discharge. I was so confused about it, I actually went to ChatGPT, despite the fact that Judge Furman doesn’t think anybody should go through ChatGPT, right? And I looked it up, and I was unable to find anybody in history who has ever gotten an unconditional discharge.

Now, I think that Judge Merchan was judicious in his decision, and he was also — I think the decision was appropriate. I will turn around and say, however, that where I — I hate to say this. I agree with Todd Blanche, and I agree with Donald Trump in this. If there’s no accountability, and there’s no deterrence factor because there is no repercussion for the 34 criminal counts, I don’t see the point in having the conviction. They probably could have and should have just dismissed the case all in and of itself.

And I know a lot of people are saying, ‘well, that doesn’t make sense, why would you say that?’ I don’t take solace in the fact that Donald Trump is becoming the very first president or former president of the United States to become a convicted felon. I mean, if it makes people happy so that they can now call him the felon president, OK. That’s on them.

I still have a lot of respect for the office of the presidency, and I am a firm believer that to commit a crime and have absolutely no punishment, no accountability, no deterrence factor, I just don’t see the purpose.

HAYES: Yes, it’s interesting you say that. I hear what you’re saying fully.

Watch the clip above via MSNBC.

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