Trump breaks silence on Michael Cohen sentencing
Source: Politico
The president claims he never directed his ex-lawyer to break the law.
By CAITLIN OPRYSKO 12/13/2018 09:03 AM EST Updated 12/13/2018 09:42 AM EST
President Donald Trump on Thursday broke his silence on Michael Cohen's prison sentencing, claiming he never directed his longtime fixer to break the law and that he bears no responsibility for Cohen's campaign finance violations.
In his first tweets since Cohen was sentenced to three years for a series of tax fraud and lying charges on Wednesday, Trump argued that Cohen pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws to get a lighter sentence and questioned whether any violations even occurred.
“I never directed Michael Cohen to break the law. He was a lawyer and he is supposed to know the law. It is called ‘advice of counsel,’ and a lawyer has great liability if a mistake is made. That is why they get paid," Trump wrote on Twitter across a flurry of posts Thursday morning. "Despite that many campaign finance lawyers have strongly stated that I did nothing wrong with respect to campaign finance laws, if they even apply, because this was not campaign finance."
"Cohen was guilty on many charges unrelated to me, but he plead to two campaign charges which were not criminal and of which he probably was not guilty even on a civil bases," the president continued. "Those charges were just agreed to by him in order to embarrass the president and get a much reduced prison sentence, which he did-including the fact that his family was temporarily let off the hook. As a lawyer, Michael has great liability to me!”
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/13/trump-breaks-silence-michael-cohen-sentencing-1061817
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