Cohen的坦白暗示川普的竞选胜利是非法的。

Michael Cohen pleads guilty to 8 counts

Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former fixer, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to breaking campaign finance laws and other charges. He made the extraordinary statement that he arranged payments to two women “at the direction of the candidate,” referring to Mr. Trump, to secure their silence about affairs they said they had with Mr. Trump.

Mr. Cohen told a judge in United States District Court in Manhattan that the payments were “for the principal purpose of influencing the election” for president in 2016.

Mr. Cohen also pleaded guilty to multiple counts of tax evasion and bank fraud, bringing to a close a monthslong investigation by Manhattan federal prosecutors who examined his personal business dealings and his role in helping to arrange financial deals with women connected to Mr. Trump.

The plea came shortly before another blow to the president: his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was convicted in his financial fraud trial in Virginia. The special counsel had built a case that Mr. Manafort hid millions of dollars in foreign accounts to evade taxes and lied to banks to obtain $20 million in loans.

 

In Manhattan, Mr. Cohen made the admission about President Trump’s role in the payments to an adult film actress and a former Playboy playmate as he pleaded guilty to two campaign finance crimes.

[Read more about the verdict in the Paul Manafort fraud trial]

One of those charges stemmed from a $130,000 payment he made to the adult film actress, Stephanie Clifford, who is better known as Stormy Daniels, in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. The other concerned a complicated arrangement in which a tabloid bought the rights to the story about the former Playboy model, Karen McDougal, then killed it

The guilty plea and Mr. Cohen’s statements in court represent a pivotal moment in the investigation into the president: a once-loyal aide admitting that he made payments at the behest of the president to shield him from politically damaging disclosures.

Mr. Trump’s lawyers have, for months, said privately that they considered Mr. Cohen’s case to be potentially more problematic for the president than the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III.

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• 大家都不干净。你如果暗示当选要被推翻，那你高兴的太早了。 -randomeSell- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/21/2018 postreply 15:52:37

• 别做梦了，起来擦桌子了 -mojomojo- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/21/2018 postreply 15:53:54

• 赶快impeach, 又多了个理由 -mobileuser- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/21/2018 postreply 15:54:18

• 这个案子要在trump任期最后阶段定案，有没有违法都没什么意义了。总统任职到期了。 -笑薇.- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/21/2018 postreply 15:56:53

• 他是政变上台的吗？ 他是民选总统，人民的意志。 -西风-西风- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/21/2018 postreply 16:22:12

• 说到人民意志，有一半人民没选他啊。 -West_East- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/21/2018 postreply 16:38:54

• 超過一半 -松涛孤雁- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/21/2018 postreply 16:39:50

• 政變不一定是武力介入，使詐也是 -松涛孤雁- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/21/2018 postreply 16:39:18

• 和我说的有什么关系吗？什么思维？ -笑薇.- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/21/2018 postreply 16:59:52

• 怕折騰不夠 -松涛孤雁- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/21/2018 postreply 16:45:38

• 老川这样上台对民主体制来说肯定不是好事 -llarry- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/21/2018 postreply 16:51:41

• 老川怎样上台才会对民主体制有好处？ -注啥册- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/21/2018 postreply 23:25:38

• 说来说去就是老川上台左棍不爽，非要希婆当选才罢休，老川是按美国法律通过选举而当选的，什么过半数人不支持他，所以他要下台，废话！ -注啥册- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/21/2018 postreply 23:04:40

• 希婆在党内赢得初选才是违法所得。Trump 违了什么法？ -o,dear- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/21/2018 postreply 23:52:12