Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen pleads guilty, admits to making illegal payments at direction...

CNBC "News" ^ | 21 August 2018 | Tucker Higgins | Kevin Breuninger

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FULL TITLE: Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen pleads guilty, admits to making illegal payments at direction of candidate to influence election

Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for President Donald Trump, has struck a plea deal with federal prosecutors, NBC News reported on Tuesday.

Cohen came under investigation by federal prosecutors in New York City earlier this year. They had received a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Prosecutors had been eyeing Cohen's business dealings. The New York Times reported that federal authorities were looking into $20 million in loans for taxi businesses linked to Cohen.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If campaign money was not used it was not a campaign finance violation. It was a private contract between two parties.

[StoneRainbow68]

I’d swap the word “admits” for the word “claims”.

[Boomer]

I do hope the investigation into Mueller, Comey, McCabe, Hillary, Obama, Lynch, et all is going just as vigorous.

Oh wait!

[SoFloFreeper]

Not. Even. Worried.

[Skywise]

It doesn’t matter at this point. They’ll use it to jam open an investigation and target the president directly - subpoena all his records and then get him for something unrelated.

This is the day that the US fell. When attorney client privilege no longer means anything - when the rule of law is subverted for purely political purposes then we no longer have a nation of laws.

If they will do this against the most powerful people of the nation think what they’ll do to us peons.

[rxsid]

"If campaign money was not used it was not a campaign finance violation. It was a private contract between two parties. "

Try explaining that to the (at least) 50% of uneducated sheeple that vote (D).

Let's see what the actual, details are re:

"admits to making illegal payments at direction of candidate to influence election"

[dware]

I do hope the investigation into Mueller, Comey, McCabe, Hillary, Obama, Lynch, et all is going just as vigorous.

Despite mountains of evidence, nothing will happen to these people. Nothing at all. Trump has failed miserably in this aspect. He is NOT doing what needs to be done.

[sam_whiskey]

So this is why there isn’t further “cooperation” being required of Cohen. They’re trying to implicate Trump in a campaign finance violation through Cohen’s plea.

[Mouton]

“admits to making illegal payments”

The payments were illegal? I’d like to see the cite for that. So, now anyone who carves out a special non disclosure deal with some prostitute to not have their ten year ago fling made public is doing something illegal! Wow. If this is such a bad thing, how will this compare to getting BJs in the oval office and lying under oath about it by a sitting president. Oh, not so much.

[Migraine]

He is snookered right now because of the bottleneck that exists at Sessions and Rosenstein levels.

Any removal of any of them at this time would be called obstruction (even though it is totally within the President’s prerogative).

This will not continue to be the case forever; but I, too, have been very impatient over it for a long time. Frustrating! Sad!

[Conserv]

Same Here.

I’m not the slightest bit worried.

[Jaded]

How does it influence an election? I’m so confused.

[DannyTN]

Where are the Russians?
So is Stormy Russian now?
Did Stormy strip in a Russian nightclub?

[Jane Long]

Michael Cohen pleads guilty, admits to making illegal payments at direction of candidate to influence election

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What payments? To who?

[diverteach]

And this has what to do with “Russian collusion”? ,,,,,,,NOTHING....ZIP....NADDA.

[SaxxonWoods]

No problem. Trust the scam, I mean plan.

[dware]

even though it is totally within the President’s prerogative

Failure to do so will ruin his administration. He has every right. It's long past time.

[NELSON111]

Trust Sessions...trust the plan right. We were told to trust Mule-ur too...right? So...I’m not worried either.

[Trumpisourlastchance]

No DemonRat funded fake dossier, no special prosecutor after fake Attorney General recused himself based on nothing, none of this happens.

[Karl Spooner]

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Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen pleads guilty, admits to making illegal payments at direction of candidate to influence election
Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for President Donald Trump, has struck a plea deal with federal prosecutors, NBC News reported on Tuesday.
Cohen came under investigation by federal prosecutors in New York City earlier this year. They had received a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Prosecutors had been eyeing Cohen’s business dealings. The New York Times reported that federal authorities were looking into $20 million in loans for taxi businesses linked to Cohen.
Tucker Higgins | Kevin Breuninger
Published 3 Hours Ago Updated 1 Min Ago
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Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, leaves his apartment building, in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018.
Richard Drew | AP
Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, leaves his apartment building, in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018.
Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for President Donald Trump, agreed to plead guilty on Tuesday to eight counts related to tax fraud, excessive campaign contributions, making false statements to a financial institution, and unlawful corporate contributions at a court hearing in New York on Tuesday.

“Two of those counts appear to relate to Trump directly. Cohen admitted on Tuesday to making payments to two women at the direction of an unidentified candidate for political office. Those payments, Cohen said, were made to influence the outcome of the election.”