A day after Trump’s personal ex-lawyer Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years jail time, Trump belligerently tweeted his innocence, saying he ‘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,’ Trump wrote.
Key here is the claim that Trump — or ‘Individual-1’ as he’s known in the court papers — knew about the hush payments made to Stormy Daniels which could be a campaign violation.
In court yesterday, a dejected Cohen struck back at the President:
‘Recently the president tweeted a statement calling me weak and it was correct, but for a much different reason than he was implying,’ Cohen said as he pleaded for leniency. ‘It was because time and time again I felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds.’
Whether Cohen’s information to Mueller about collusion with Russia is enough to impeach the President remains unclear.