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Avenatti: Trump should be indicted for committing 'felonies designed to get him elected'
Michael Avenatti, the lawyer representing adult-film actress Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against President Trump, said Saturday that Trump should be indicted "for committing the two felonies designed to get him elected."
“.@realDonaldTrump should be indicted for committing the two felonies designed to get him elected. Now," Avenatti tweeted. "No court has ever ruled that the POTUS cannot be indicted and there is nothing in the constitution that states as much. It is time for the SCOTUS to decide the issue.”
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Avenatti's tweet came one day after federal prosecutors in New York for the first time said President Trump directed his former lawyer Michael Cohen to make two illegal payments during the 2016 election.
In their latest filing, prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York stated Cohen "acted in coordination with and at the direction of" Trump before the presidential campaign in arranging payments to silence Daniels and Karen McDougal, who both claim to have had affairs with Trump. Trump has denied the affairs.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/420399-avenatti-trump-should-be-indicted-for-committing-felonies-designed-to