ax to grind

As he explained to reporters, “I think the nomination is going to go forward,” adding that while he had not reviewed the affidavit, he had “grave doubts as to the substance” and believed that its author “has an ax to grind.”

Kinch told the paper he was not racist and that he was being targeted by colleagues with “an ax to grind.”

"Cohen had an ax to grind because he did not appreciate what President Trump did or did not do for him after he became president of the U.S.,"

He didn’t come off as a man with an ax to grind, but a small, petty individual who had been taken advantage of by a much more powerful man he all but worshipped.

But by turning the star witness into the corroborating witness, prosecutors may lessen the damage of the fact that their star, Cohen, is a deeply flawed witness with a series of criminal convictions in his past, including for perjury, and with an enormous ax to grind against Trump.