Politics

Cohen ducks questions about prepping for time in the slammer

If President Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen has been prepping for what will likely be several years behind bars, he’s not spilling the beans.

Two days after pleading guilty to a slew of federal crimes and accusing Trump of being complicit in his misdeeds, a casually clad Cohen — decked in shades, a black polo shirt and faded jeans — ducked questions from The Post about how he was preparing for his time in the slammer, refusing to comment.

Strolling from his residence at 502 Park Ave. about 10:30 a.m., he politely warned a reporter to be careful in traffic as he headed a couple blocks away to the Four Seasons on East 57th Street, surrounded by the media as he walked through the revolving door.

At one point, a passing trucker shouted out “Baba Booey!” — a nickname bestowed on Gary Dell’Abate of the Howard Stern Show after he misstated the name of cartoon character Quick Draw McGraw’s sidekick Baba Looey as Baba Booey in 1990.

Michael Cohen
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The cry, for some reason, is now a common shout-out from Stern fans when they see TV cameras rolling.

At another point, a woman told Cohen to “Keep up the good work!” and he responded by slapping palms with a young girl who was with her.

Cohen also didn’t respond to The Post’s questions about why he deleted an old tweet on Wednesday mocking Hillary Clinton and predicting she’d be locked up in prison — a riff on Trump supporters’ chants of “Lock her up!” at his MAGA rallies.

“@HillaryClinton when you go to prison for defrauding America and perjury, your room and board will be free!” Cohen tweeted in December 2015.

Asked if he was struck by the irony of his situation now that he’s facing time himself, Cohen simply kept walking.

The commander-in-chief has been on the hot seat since Tuesday, when Cohen pleaded guilty to eight federal crimes and Trump’s one-time campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted of another eight.

Both prosecutions resulted from special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing probe of Russian election meddling and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.

The president since has accused Cohen of lying to get a better deal from the feds, and praised Manafort for not cooperating with federal prosecutors.

And he continued attacking Mueller’s probe on Twitter.

“NO COLLUSION – RIGGED WITCH HUNT!” he wrote in a post late Wednesday.

Additional reporting by Bob Fredericks