Cohen plea deal doesn’t mean it implicates Trump: White House

In an interview with Fox News, Trump incorrectly stated that Cohen had pleaded to campaign finance violations that were not actually crimes – and stated that Cohen is only guilty of crossing him.

Judge William Pauley set a sentencing date for Cohen for December 12.

“I know all about flipping”, Trump said.

The United States government first began regulating money in elections in 1907 with the Tillman Act, which today still bars corporations from donating to political candidates.

On Tuesday, Michael Cohen, the president’s longtime attorney, testified in federal court that his former boss had directed him to pay off two women with whom Trump allegedly had extramarital affairs.

Trump’s lawyers have been negotiating with Mueller about whether the President would submit to an interview as part of Mueller’s Russian Federation investigation.

Loyalty has always been a core value for President Donald Trump.

Cohen, on the other hand, used the occasion of his guilty plea in federal court in Manhattan to directly implicate Trump in two felony crimes.

The individual contribution limit traces back to Watergate.

He is linking his impeachment project with a panic and fear that could happen and he is sending messages to his supporters who could take to the to the streets in the upcoming midterm elections and the 2020 elections.

Michael Cohen is now caught in a thicket of state and federal investigations. And the lawyer is just one in a series of former Trump loyalists who have dissociated themselves from the president, intent on saving themselves in a series of nasty legal and political battles.

Nixon resigned after Watergate exposed his corrupt dealings.

Debate swirled inside and outside the White House about the next steps and how damaging the legal fallout was for the president.

At the president’s instruction, his aides and friends solicited secret 0,000 donations from such leaders of industry as billionaire Howard Hughes and agribusiness titan Dwayne Andreas.

RUDY GIULIANI: That money was not campaign money.

After Watergate exposed these campaign practices, the public responded with revulsion.

But campaign finance violations even if proven, are seen as a minor crime; previous instances have been settled with a fine.

Igor Bobic contributed reporting. He said it would be really hard to confirm a successor “if he is fired because he is executing his job rather that choosing to act as a partisan hack”.

It’s not complicated. The publisher’s contract amounted to a corporate campaign contribution, but corporations can not contribute to campaigns.

Cohen, Trump’s personal attorney of 12 years and a veteran of the Trump Organization, told the judge that he had paid hush money to Trump’s alleged mistresses in the late hours of the 2016 race.

Cohen, who turns 52 on Saturday, wiped away tears as he gazed out a courthouse window after pleading guilty on Tuesday.

In entering the plea, Cohen did not name the two women or even Trump, recounting instead that he worked with an “unnamed candidate” to influence the election.

The case against the Trump Foundation received a boost this week when the state Taxation and Finance Department subpoenaed Cohen, and he signaled his willingness to cooperate, according to state officials.

So far, this is not new territory for the country. Cohen is intent on telling the truth to whoever asks him and is “more than happy” to tell Mueller all that he knows, Davis said, calling that pledge, “the functional equivalent of cooperation”.

Nixon resigned from office before Congress could formally impeach him.

“Having an affair and lying about it with a porn star and a Playboy bunny is not impeachable”, Fleischer said, “it’s Donald Trump”.

“I took control of the Department of Justice the day I was sworn in, which is why we have had unprecedented success at effectuating the President’s agenda”.