LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An attorney for Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer who pleaded guilty in New York on Tuesday [8-21-18] to campaign finance violations and other charges, said Trump directed Cohen to commit a crime. ‘Today he stood up and testified under oath that Donald Trump directed him to commit a crime by making payments to two women for the principal purpose of influencing an election,’ Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis said in a statement. ‘If those payments were a crime for Michael Cohen, then why wouldn’t they be a crime for Donald Trump?’ Davis said.”
–Reuters Staff, “Cohen’s lawyer says Trump told Cohen to commit a crime,” Reuters, August 21, 2018 3:29 pm