CONGRESS/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump used his Twitter feed on Monday [12-3-18] to accuse his former personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, of lying under oath and said he should receive the maximum jail sentence as he praised another former adviser, Roger J. Stone Jr., for saying he would never testify against the president. Mr. Trump’s latest Twitter fusillade came after Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the duration of his work for the Trump Organization on a proposed, but never completed, Trump Tower project in Moscow. In reality, Mr. Cohen testified, the work on the proposal did not end in January 2016, as he had claimed, but lasted until May 2016, when Mr. Trump clinched the Republican nomination for president. The charge was brought by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, who is investigating possible collusion between Mr. Trump’s campaign and Russian officials interfering in the presidential election.”
–Maggie Haberman, “Trump Urges Maximum Sentence for Lawyer Who Implicated Him,” The New York Times online, December 3, 2018