2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/PARDONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen would not accept a presidential pardon, his attorney said on Wednesday [8-22-18], a day after Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges and said he acted at the direction of Trump. In a round of television interviews, Cohen’s attorney, Lanny Davis, said Trump’s former longtime lawyer wanted no part in what he saw as the president’s abuse of his clemency power. Cohen also questioned Trump’s loyalty to the United States and saw him as unfit to hold office, Davis added…In dramatic testimony on Tuesday [8-21-18], Cohen told a federal court in Manhattan that Trump had directed him to arrange payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election to silence two women who said they had affairs with Trump. He pleaded guilty to charges of tax evasion, bank fraud and campaign finance violations. His plea came as former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty on eight charges in his financial fraud trial stemming from the federal investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and possible coordination with the Trump campaign.”
–Reuters Staff, “Trump’s ex-lawyer Cohen would not accept pardon: lawyer,” Reuters, August 22, 2018 6:13 am