Trump mocks Cohen over plot allegation
President keeps up attacks on special counsel Mueller
Donald Trump has ridiculed his longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, who implicated him a day earlier in a criminal plot to hide alleged affairs, displaying little concern about potential legal or political damage to his presidency. He also kept up his attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller, who secured the conviction of Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, on bank and tax fraud charges on Tuesday at practically the same time Cohen pleaded guilty to eight felonies. Trump appeared to be shrugging off developments, which several of his aides and confidants had said amounted to one of the worst days of his presidency. "If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the services of Michael Cohen!" Trump tweeted on Wednesday morning. He said he did not think two campaign finance violations to which Cohen pleaded guilty were crimes at all — the six-figure hush-money payments to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump, whic...
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