Headline Roundup • December 14th, 2018
Ex-Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Speaks Out
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ABC News (Online)
Donald Trump directed Michael Cohen to arrange hush-money payments with two women because then-candidate Trump “was very concerned about how this would affect the election” if their allegations of affairs became public, the president’s former personal attorney said in an exclusive interview with ABC News.
NPR (Online News)
Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer and fixer, says he is being forced to take responsibility for Trump's "dirty deeds." In an interview with ABC News, Cohen says that during the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump directed him to arrange hush-money payments to two women and that the candidate knew it was illegal.
HotAir
“He knows the truth, I know the truth,” Michael Cohen told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos this morning, “many people know the truth.” In an exclusive interview on Good Morning America, Cohen declared that the real purpose behind the payoffs to Donald Trump’s mistresses was to protect his presidential campaign. “I knew what I was doing was wrong,” Cohen admits, and so did Trump:
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