trump’s Ex-lawyer Cohen said he had considered it his “duty” to cover up the “dirty deeds” of the US President. For this, he ends up behind bars and Trump remains in the crosshairs of the investigators.
The family crying in the hall of the New York Federal court, Michael Cohen, is shocked. His lawyer after the verdict in silence and put off the waiting reporters to a later date.
The verdict: three years in prison for the “Fixer”, the sweeper, as he once called himself. He was Donald trump’s hatchet man, a “Pitbull” and the lawyer was to do it all for his client ready.
“Blind loyalty” to the US-President
“If a Problem comes up that relates to him, then it naturally also affects me”, so the sound once. It was a close and trusting relationship, but now it became his proximity to the President’s downfall.
His weakness was Trump blind loyalty, said the defendant in the courtroom immediately prior to the condemnation. The 52-year-old Cohen had already given in August, hush money payments, among other things, the pornstar Stormy Daniels to have in the order of then-presidential candidate Trump paid.
US President, Trump tried to distance themselves early on from Cohen.
“Everything for Trump
He famous, also, of the illegal election campaign help of the Bank fraud and tax evasion for guilty done”. Overall, it went to nine individual actions. At the latest, when the FBI rooms, the office, Cohen searched, was the lawyer apparently clear that it is closely – and not only him, but also to the President who distanced himself most recently to the public from Cohen.
Cohen is a liar, Trump said, a weak Person, the lie, in order to get a lighter sentence. Cohen sees it differently. He says he did everything for Trump done and the need for assistance is seen to cover trump’s “dirty deeds”. Meanwhile, he cooperates with the FBI special investigator Robert Mueller.
In November, Cohen admitted to the intelligence Committee of the Congress, of investigating the Russian campaign of manipulation, and being lied to. It was now two months in jail – to offset the total penalty, with the 36 months. This has to compete Cohen, by the way, only in March of next year.
“next Trump”
The lawyer of Stormy Daniels, sued currently the President was in front of the court building is still a threat in the direction of Trump: Cohen is now condemned, as the next result of the US President.
The Prosecutor’s office assumes that Cohen had acted in consultation with and under the leadership of Trump. For the incumbent US President, the conviction of his former Confidants, is also so controversial, because Trump could be increasingly in the crosshairs of the investigators, and possibly to the end of his presidency also accused.
Trumps Fixer goes to jail – prison for Ex-lawyer of the President
Georg Schwarte, ARD New York
12.12.2018 20:03 PM
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