Michael Cohen Says Trump Almost Certainly Committed a Crime
Campaign Finance,Donald Trump,Michael Cohen,Politics,Elections
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After he was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday for tax fraud, lying to Congress, and campaign-finance violations he said he committed at the president’s direction, Michael Cohen is going full John Dean. In an interview with ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos that aired Friday, the lawyer and fixer who was once so loyal to Donald Trump that he claimed he’d “take a bullet” for him, said that not only did Trump instruct him to pay off Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, but he knew that doing so was “wrong.”
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