“Michael Cohen plead [sic] guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime. President Obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily settled!”
— President Trump, in a tweet, Aug. 22, 2018
“Michael Cohen pled guilty to something that isn’t even a crime.”
— Trump, in a Fox News interview, Dec. 13, 2018
“Many campaign finance lawyers have strongly 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 [sic] to two campaign charges which were not criminal and of which he probably was not 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.”
View the complete January 28 article by Salvador Rizzo on The Washington Post website here.