President Donald Trump broke his silence on Michael Cohen’s sentencing Thursday, insisting that Cohen’s crimes were not campaign-related.
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. Despite that many campaign finance lawyers have strongly……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2018
….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…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2018
….guilty even on a civil basis. 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!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2018
A good lawyer also tells his client to shut up.
There’s an old saying that a man who represents himself has a fool for a lawyer… Don, would be much smarter to just stop tweeting.
Not that we mind watching the slow-motion car wreck, but…
“strongly stated”
His language is a very funny (or big!) compulsion. He cannot escape it in any context.
Pleading guilty to things that aren’t even crimes, ,that’s um…curious.
Another obvious falsehood… how surprising