2/26/2019

CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, will provide documents to the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday [2-27-19] that he says prove Trump committed ‘illicit’ acts, according to prepared congressional testimony obtained by POLITICO. The documents include one of 11 checks that Trump purportedly wrote after he became president […]

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2/22/2019

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSNIESS/TRUMP FAMILY: “Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, met last month with federal prosecutors in Manhattan, offering information about possible irregularities within the president’s family business and about a donor to the inaugural committee, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Cohen, who worked at the Trump Organization for […]

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2/22/2019

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen met last month with federal prosecutors in Manhattan and provided information about potential irregularities in the Trump family business, the New York Times reported on Friday [2-22-19]. The newspaper, citing people familiar with the matter, said prosecutors in the Southern District […]

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2/21/2019

INTELLIGENCE/MICHAEL COHEN/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday [2-26-19] in one of three appearances before U.S. lawmakers next week ahead of reporting to prison in May. Cohen, Trump’s longtime fixer who is set to go to prison for three years after pleading […]

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2/21/2019

INTELLIGENCE/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen spent several hours Thursday [2-21-19] inside the Senate Intelligence Committee’s secure spaces ahead of his closed-door testimony scheduled before the panel next week. Cohen was on Capitol Hill on Thursday in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s secure spaces ahead of next week’s interview. He […]

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2/20/2019

HOUSE OF REPS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Cohen will testify publicly before Congress on February 27 on an array of topics linked to his former boss and client, President Donald Trump, the House Oversight Committee said Wednesday [2-20-19]. Cohen was initially scheduled to testify in front of the committee on February 7, but that appearance […]

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2/7/2019

MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVSTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Where the investigations related to President Donald Trump stand and what may lie ahead for him: WHAT’S THIS ALL ABOUT? Special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia and whether the president obstructed the investigation. Trump also plays a central role in a […]

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2/5/2019

LAWSUIT/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A federal judge has granted adult film actress Stormy Daniels’ request to dismiss a defamation claim against U.S. President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen, while letting her pursue her lawsuit against Trump and Cohen to end a hush money settlement. In a decision made public on Tuesday [2-5-19], U.S. District […]

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2/1/2019

FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s assertion that a senior law enforcement official privately gave assurances that he is not under scrutiny in the investigations shadowing him partly served as a defense strategy but also raised new questions about how the Justice Department is conducting the inquiries. Mr. Trump said in an interview […]

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1/29/2019

CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rep. Joaquin Castro said Tuesday [1-29-19] that he believes no topics are off limits for the expected hearing next week with President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen…Cohen agreed on Monday [1-28-19] to a closed-door hearing with the House Intelligence Committee, of which Castro is a member, on February 8. Among […]

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1/24/2019

INTELLIGENCE/MICHAEL COHEN/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was subpoenaed Thursday [1-24-19] to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee in mid-February, a source close to Cohen told CNN. Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis confirmed the subpoena was issued Thursday and said that Cohen intended to comply. ‘We will comply and hope to […]

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1/24/2019

CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Thursday [1-24-19] it was sad that his former personal attorney is trying to to delay his public testimony to Congress, calling it ‘so interesting’ that Michael Cohen’s legal counsel has strong ties to Trump’s 2016 opponent. Cohen, who has pleaded guilty to violations tied to his […]

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1/24/2019

FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So interesting that bad lawyer Michael Cohen, who sadly will not be testifying before Congress, is using the lawyer of Crooked Hillary Clinton to represent him – Gee, how did that happen? Remember July 4th weekend when Crooked went before FBI & wasn’t sworn in, no tape, nothing?” -Donald Trump, […]

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1/24/2019

INTELLIGENCE/MICHAEL COHEN/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Senate Intelligence Committee has issued a subpoena to compel Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, to appear before the panel next month to formally correct false testimony that he delivered last year about a proposed Trump Organization project in Moscow, one of his lawyers confirmed on Thursday [1-24-19]. The […]

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1/24/2019

GUNS/MICHAEL COHEN/POLICE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump, his eldest son, and his former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, were among a roster of rich and powerful people who received gun licenses from the New York Police Department in return for special favors, a former lieutenant has claimed in court papers. The former lieutenant, Paul Dean, said the men […]

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1/23/2019

HOUSE OF REPS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen is trying to delay his public testimony before the House Oversight Committee, with Cohen’s lawyer citing ‘ongoing threats against his family’ and his continued cooperation with investigators. Cohen had been scheduled to testify on Feb. 7 at the highly anticipated hearing, which his […]

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1/22/2019

LAWSUIT/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A federal judge appeared inclined Tuesday [1-22-19] to toss out a lawsuit against President Donald Trump by porn actress Stormy Daniels that sought to tear up a hush-money settlement about their alleged affair. Trump and his former personal lawyer asked a judge to dismiss the lawsuit after agreeing to rescind a […]

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1/22/2019

GOP/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony next month will exclude any topic that’s ‘under investigation,’ Republicans say they were told by Cohen’s lawyer, which could mean Cohen won’t discuss lying to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow project or the payments made to women during the 2016 campaign for their silence. Reps. […]

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1/21/2019

2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/ RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rudy Giuliani on Monday [1-21-19] walked back statements he made this weekend concerning potential conversations between then-candidate Donald Trump and Michael Cohen about plans to construct a Trump Tower in Moscow ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Giuliani, the former New York mayor and current attorney for the […]

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1/19/2019

2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Cohen’s checkered history and many lies have always meant investigators would need documentation to back up his statements. BuzzFeed’s dramatic report Thursday [1-17-19] night, based on two unidentified federal law enforcement sources involved in the investigation, suggested prosecutors might have what they need to prove President Donald Trump […]

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1/19/2019

MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office has issued a rare public statement disputing the accuracy of BuzzFeed News’ report that President Donald Trump’s former attorney told Mueller that Trump directed the lawyer to lie to Congress…BuzzFeed, citing two unidentified law enforcement officials, reported that Trump directed lawyer Michael Cohen to lie […]

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1/18/2019

2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a rare public statement, special counsel Robert Mueller’s office on Friday [1-18-19] disputed a blockbuster report from BuzzFeed News that alleged President Donald Trump directed his former attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie in his testimony before Congress. Despite worldwide coverage and intense interest, Mueller’s office has stayed mostly […]

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1/18/2019

DEMS/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats are vowing to investigate whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice — with some openly floating the prospect of impeachment or his resignation — following a bombshell BuzzFeed report that Trump personally directed his former attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress..Citing law enforcement officials, BuzzFeed reported Thursday [1-17-19] night […]

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1/18/2019

2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For much of the past 20 months, President Donald Trump and his administration have insisted that, for all of the smoke surrounding his 2016 campaign, there was no fire. A lot of people in Trump’s orbit engaging in conversations and relationships with Russian officials, but no evidence of collusion […]

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1/18/2019

MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier, two reporters for BuzzFeed News, may have just scored the scoop that, if it is ultimately confirmed, irrevocably changes the course of the Trump presidency. If so, it will represent for Leopold the apex of a comeback from a troubled personal and professional past. On […]

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1/18/2019

CONGRESS/IMPEACHMENT/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a pointed exchange during William Barr’s confirmation hearing earlier this week, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., engaged the nominee for attorney general in an ominous hypothetical: If the president encouraged or instructed a witness to lie, would that act amount to obstruction of justice? ‘Yes,’ Barr said with little hesitation. Two […]

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1/18/2019

DEMS/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A pair of House Democratic committee chairmen vowed Friday [1-18-19] to investigate allegations in a published report that President Donald Trump personally ordered his former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about a potential real-estate development in Moscow. Trump and his attorney said Cohen is untruthful..The report, published […]

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1/18/2019

MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Kevin Corke, @FoxNews ‘Don’t forget, Michael Cohen has already been convicted of perjury and fraud, and as recently as this week, the Wall Street Journal has suggested that he may have stolen tens of thousands of dollars….’ Lying to reduce his jail time! Watch father-in-law!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 18, 2019 […]

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1/18/2019

2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election disputed on Friday [1-18-19] a report that said President Trump had directed Michael D. Cohen, his longtime lawyer and fixer, to lie to Congress about his role in negotiations to build a skyscraper in Moscow. The rare public statement […]

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1/17/2019

MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump’s former fixer and personal attorney Michael Cohen paid a technology expert to rig online polls in Trump’s favor, according to The Wall Street Journal. John Gauger, the owner of Red Finch Solutions and chief information officer at Liberty University, said Cohen offered him $50,000 to manipulate two […]

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1/17/2019

2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael D. Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for President Trump, acknowledged on Thursday [1-17-19] that he had paid the owner of a technology services company to help doctor results of an online poll to help Mr. Trump as he considered a run for president. In a post on […]

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1/17/2019

MICHAEL COHEN/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s former ‘fixer’ Michael Cohen said Thursday [1-17-19] that he paid the head of a small technology company thousands in 2015 to rig online polls at ‘the direction of and for the sole benefit of’ Trump. Cohen was responding to a report in The Wall Street Journal that he […]

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1/10/2019

CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and longtime fixer, will testify publicly before the House Oversight Committee in February, an appearance that is likely to air potentially embarrassing details and set up a very public spectacle about his now-fraught relationship with the president. Cohen, who was sentenced to three […]

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1/10/2019

CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer who implicated him in a scheme to pay hush money to two women claiming to have had affairs with him, said on Thursday [1-10-19] that he had agreed to testify before a House committee next month and give ‘a full and credible […]

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1/10/2019

MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As special counsel Robert Mueller wraps up his Russia probe, investigators have focused on conflicting public statements by President Donald Trump and his team that could be seen as an effort to influence witnesses and obstruct justice, according to people familiar with the investigation. The line of questioning adds […]

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12/21/2018

2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has at least twice in the past few weeks vented to his acting attorney general, angered by federal prosecutors who referenced the President’s actions in crimes his former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Trump was frustrated, the sources […]

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12/17/2018

DEMS/FBI/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s use of the word ‘rat’ to attack his former personal attorney and fixer Michael Cohen is more evocative of a ‘mob boss’ than of a president, a Democratic senator said Monday [12-17-18]. Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, painted Trump’s claims that the FBI […]

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12/17/2018

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “This weekend, President Donald Trump raged against Michael Cohen, calling his former lawyer and accuser a ‘rat’ for cooperating with federal prosecutors. Cohen has accused Trump of directing him to make secret hush-money payments to two women so that they wouldn’t tell their stories before the November 2016 election. […]

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12/17/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Last week the nation witnessed a courtroom spectacle that included the president’s former personal lawyer and ‘fixer,’ Michael Cohen, groveling for mercy at a sentencing hearing while his daughter watched, a crutch at her side. Future historians might view the maudlin scene as the beginning of the end of the […]

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12/16/2018

DEMS/FBI/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Remember, Michael Cohen only became a ‘Rat’ after the FBI did something which was absolutely unthinkable & unheard of until the Witch Hunt was illegally started. They BROKE INTO AN ATTORNEY’S OFFICE! Why didn’t they break into the DNC to get the Server, or Crooked’s office?” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 16, […]

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12/14/2018

GOP/MICHAEL COHEN/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Sen. Orrin Hatch, the outgoing Utah Republican and most senior GOP senator, issued a statement on Friday [12-14-18] expressing regret for telling CNN ‘I don’t care’ when asked about President Donald Trump being implicated in crimes by Michael Cohen…In the interview with CNN earlier in the week, Hatch strongly dismissed […]

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12/14/2018

2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Donald Trump’s longtime attorney Michael Cohen said the president directed him to orchestrate hush money payments during his 2016 presidential campaign to women alleging affairs because he was concerned that those allegations might damage his electoral changes. Cohen, a longtime loyalist and fixer for Trump who flipped on the president […]

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12/13/2018

CAMPAIGN FINANCE/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump attended an August 2015 meeting that federal prosecutors believe was central to a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws to help Trump win the presidency, according to a source familiar with the matter. According to court filings, Trump was joined by Michael Cohen, who was his attorney […]

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12/13/2018

CAMPAIGN FINANCE/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [12-13-18] disputed claims by former lawyer Michael Cohen that he engaged in ‘dirty deeds’ that included hush payments to two women to keep them quiet during the 2016 campaign…Wednesday, a federal judge sentenced Cohen to three years in prison for campaign finance violations, tax evasion […]

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12/13/2018

CAMPAIGN FINANCE/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [12-13-18] ended his silence on Michael Cohen’s prison sentencing, claiming he never directed his longtime attorney to break the law and that he bears no responsibility for Cohen’s campaign finance violations. In his first tweets since Cohen was sentenced to three years for a series […]

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12/13/2018

MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “On Wednesday [12-13-18], while the political world was focused on the news that former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen had been sentenced to three years in prison for a variety of crimes, something else of potentially huge import got somewhat glossed over: American Media Inc., the parent company of the […]

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12/13/2018

CRIME/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has been insulting Michael Cohen. And spreading falsehoods about their work together. And Cohen is not going to stay silent about it. Cohen sat down with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Thursday [12-13-18] afternoon, one day after being sentenced to three years in prison. The interview will air on Friday’s […]

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12/13/2018

MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….guilty even on a civil bases. Those charges were just agreed to by him in order to embarrass the president and get a much reduced prison sentence, which he did-including the fact that his family was temporarily let off the hook. As a lawyer, Michael has great liability to me!” -Donald […]

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12/13/2018

CAMPAIGN FINANCE/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….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 to two campaign charges which were not criminal and of which he probably was not…” -Donald […]

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12/13/2018

CAMPAIGN FINANCE/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump offered a simple defense Thursday [12-13-18] to accusations he broke campaign finance law by directing attorney Michael Cohen to orchestrate hush-money payments to conceal Trump’s alleged affairs: He was following terrible advice from a bad lawyer…The advice-of-counsel defense is a real thing. But Trump’s ability to use […]

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12/13/2018

CAMPAIGN FINANCE/LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump offered up a handful of legal arguments in a series of tweets on Thursday [12-13-18] distancing himself from former personal attorney Michael Cohen, who was sentenced to prison on Wednesday [12-12-18] for arranging 2016 hush-money payments to women who say they had affairs with the married […]

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12/12/2018

MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday [12-12-18] for crimes that included arranging payments during the 2016 election to silence women who claimed affairs with Trump after the President’s onetime ‘fixer’ attributed his offenses to ‘my duty to cover up his dirty […]

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12/12/2018

CAMPAIGN FINANCE/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Abandoned by two of his most powerful protectors, President Donald Trump insisted Thursday [12-13-18] that he did not violate campaign finance laws and that the liability for hush-money payments to two women alleging affairs with him rests with his former fixer, Michael Cohen. Both Cohen and American Media Inc., the […]

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12/12/2018

MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “With the revelation by prosecutors on Wednesday [12-12-18] that a tabloid publisher admitted to paying off a Playboy model, key participants in two hush-money schemes say the transactions were intended to protect Donald J. Trump’s campaign for president. That leaves Mr. Trump in an increasingly isolated and legally precarious position, according […]

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12/12/2018

2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN FINANCE/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday [12-12-18] for crimes including orchestrating hush payments to women in violation of campaign laws before the 2016 election, and he promised to keep cooperating with the U.S. government against his former boss. […]

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12/12/2018

MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The clock is ticking for Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer. Though he has asked for no jail time, the real question is how much he’ll get in light of dueling sentencing memos that paint entirely different pictures of him. Last week, speculation from TV […]

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12/12/2018

MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The sentencing of President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer might mark the end of a wrenching chapter for Michael Cohen, but the political and legal implications of Cohen’s capitulation have only darkened the shadow that looms over the Trump White House. The worst of what New York […]

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12/12/2018

2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The National Enquirer’s parent company has agreed to tell prosecutors everything it knows about Donald Trump — and it might know a lot. In a court document released Wednesday [12-12-18], the tabloid publisher, American Media Inc., admitted to coordinating a hush-money payment with Trump’s 2016 campaign, reversing two years of […]

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12/12/2018

2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Moments before learning his fate, Michael Cohen made a final plea. He admitted in open federal court all his wrongdoings, which he said resulted from being weak and a “blind loyalty to Donald Trump,” his former boss. In his more than 1,000-word statement on Wednesday [12-12-18] ahead of […]

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12/12/2018

MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The fall of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former attorney, is a watershed moment for the Trump presidency. As a former investigator, I see the Cohen affair’s most damning revelation to be the President’s knowing and longtime association with a criminal, not that the criminal in question pleaded guilty to a crime […]

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12/11/2018

IMPEACHMENT/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said on Tuesday [12-11-18] that there would be chaos across the country if he were impeached, as he brushed aside the latest assertions from federal prosecutors that during the 2016 election he coordinated and directed Michael Cohen’s efforts to silence women who claimed they had affairs with […]

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12/11/2018

IMPEACHMENT/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump said on Tuesday [12-11-18] he was not concerned that he would get impeached and that payments made ahead of the 2016 election by his former personal attorney Michael Cohen to two women did not violate campaign finance laws…Court filings last week drew renewed attention to six-figure payments made […]

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12/10/2018

2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN FINANCE/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump defended himself on Monday against prosecutors’ accusation that he directed illegal payments ahead of the 2016 election to two women to stay silent about alleged extramarital affairs with him, insisting that the payments were ‘a simple private transaction’ — not election-related spending subject to campaign-finance laws. In […]

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12/10/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democratic Sen. Chris Coons said if President Donald Trump directed Michael Cohen to make illegal hush payments during the 2016 election then he could be indicted after he leaves office…In a sentencing memo on Friday [12-7-18], prosecutors from the Manhattan US attorney’s office said Cohen acted at the direction of […]

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12/10/2018

CAMPAIGN FINANCE/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Monday [12-10-18] sought to downplay the campaign-finance crimes of his former attorney Michael Cohen by returning to a theme he’s sounded before: Comparing Cohen’s actions to a civil violation of federal election law by President Barack Obama’s first campaign. Legal experts say there’s no comparison between […]

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12/10/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump on Monday [12-10-18] sought to downplay the felony his former personal attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to this month, arguing that Cohen’s hush money payments on behalf of Trump were a ‘simple private transaction’ rather than a breach of campaign finance law. Apparently citing a Fox News […]

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12/7/2018

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The Justice Department says that President Donald Trump directed illegal payments to buy the silence of two women whose claims of extramarital affairs threatened his presidential campaign, the first time prosecutors have connected Trump to a federal crime. In a court filing , prosecutors said former Trump lawyer and fixer […]

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12/7/2018

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Federal prosecutors said on Friday [12-7-18] that President Trump directed illegal payments to ward off a potential sex scandal that threatened his chances of winning the White House in 2016, putting the weight of the Justice Department behind accusations previously made by his former lawyer. The lawyer, Michael D. […]

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12/7/2018

GOP/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Court filings on Friday [12-7-18] regarding Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen reveal the ways in which the special counsel’s investigation can endanger President Trump’s future. Special Counsel Robert Mueller also revealed on Tuesday [12-4-18] that former national security adviser Michael Flynn offered ‘substantial assistance’ to the Russia investigation […]

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12/7/2018

MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal prosecutors said for the first time Friday [12-7-18] that Michael Cohen acted at the direction of Donald Trump when the former fixer committed two election-related crimes during the 2016 presidential campaign, as special counsel Robert Mueller outlined a previously undisclosed set of overtures and contacts between the […]

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12/3/2018

MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Cohen’s guilty plea for lying to Congress about Donald Trump’s Moscow project prompted a new frenzy of ‘Did the president commit a crime?’ chatter among legal pundits. Finding—or refuting—a smoking gun of criminality has become the singular focus for the president’s supporters and critics alike, and his ex-lawyer’s […]

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12/3/2018

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. […]

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12/3/2018

MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Of all of President Trump’s former associates who have come under scrutiny in the special counsel’s Russia investigation, his former personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, has undertaken perhaps the most surprising and risky legal strategy. Mr. Cohen has twice pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to a litany of […]

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12/3/2018

MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump weighed in publicly Monday [12-3-18] on two key witnesses in the Russia investigation, attacking his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen while praising long-time political aide Roger Stone for refusing to cooperate with prosecutors. The president also maintained his criticism of Russia special counsel Robert Mueller, saying […]

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12/3/2018

COURTS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Monday [12-9-18] encouraged the courts to give his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen the severest punishment possible, washing his hands of Cohen’s guilty pleas and practically erasing any possibility of a presidential pardon…CNN reported Saturday that Cohen believed earlier in the spring that Trump would pardon him, […]

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12/3/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Michael Cohen asks judge for no Prison Time.’ You mean he can do all of the TERRIBLE, unrelated to Trump, things having to do with fraud, big loans, Taxis, etc., and not serve a long prison term? He makes up stories to get a GREAT & ALREADY reduced deal for himself, […]

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12/3/2018

2016/ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump called for a ‘full and complete’ sentence for his former lawyer Michael Cohen on Monday [12-3-18], weighing in on a judicial proceeding with accusations Cohen lied about dealings with Russia during his 2016 presidential campaign. Cohen is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 12 after pleading […]

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11/30/2018

G20/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “If Donald Trump thought he could end this week with a high note at the G20 summit, Robert Mueller’s investigation certainly scuttled those plans. Hours before Trump boarded his plane to Argentina, a bombshell landed in Trumpworld with the news Michael Cohen had pleaded guilty to lying to Congress […]

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11/30/2018

CONGRESS/DONALD JR/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The GOP-led Senate Judiciary Committee is reviewing Donald Trump Jr.’s interviews with the panel last September, in light of a guilty plea from President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer. On Thursday [11-29-18], Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the timeline related to plans for a Trump Tower […]

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11/30/2018

CONGRESS/DEMS/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressional Democrats on Friday [11-30-18] warned that other associates of President Donald Trump may have lied to Congress, a day after his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to doing so as part of a probe of Russian meddling in U.S. politics. Lawmakers did not level direct accusations […]

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11/30/2018

MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel’s office and President Trump found themselves in rare agreement on Friday [11-30-18] over Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort: Nothing is off the table. Prosecutors for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, said in court that they have not decided whether to charge […]

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11/30/2018

MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Trump woke up in balmy Buenos Aires early Friday [11-30-18], but his mind was back in Washington as he defended his decision to continue pursuing business deals as he ran for president in 2016, including looking ‘lightly’ at constructing a building in Russia. The president’s Twitter defense […]

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11/29/2018

2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump lashed out on Thursday [11-29-18] at his former personal attorney Michael Cohen after Cohen’s guilty plea to a new criminal charge in the Southern District of New York. While Trump might want to practice his poker face a bit when facing adversity, it is easy […]

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11/29/2018

G20/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump was only a half-hour into his nine-hour flight to the G20 summit here in the Argentine capital when he decided to pull the plug on the most hotly anticipated moment of his trip: a lengthy face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But while Trump’s abrupt decision quashed concerns […]

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11/29/2018

MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One idea considered for the proposed Trump Tower in Moscow was to offer Russian President Vladimir Putin the penthouse, according to Felix Sater, who was working on the project with Michael Cohen. RELATED: Michael Cohen pleads guilty, says he lied about Trump’s knowledge of Moscow project Sater, a Russian-born onetime business […]

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11/29/2018

MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Silent for so long, Robert Mueller is beginning to show the public the building blocks of a case that could imperil Donald Trump’s presidency. In the process, the special counsel is beginning to expose the lies and obfuscations that people around Trump, and the President himself, erected to try […]

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11/29/2018

HOUSE OF REPS/MICHAEL COHEN/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday [11-29-18] denied pursuing a Trump Organization real estate project in Moscow, which his former lawyer Michael Cohen said they had continued until June 2016, during the presidential campaign. Cohen pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying to Congress about the project, putting fresh […]

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11/29/2018

CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Donald J. Trump was more involved in discussions over a potential Russian business deal during the presidential campaign than previously known, his former lawyer Michael D. Cohen said Thursday [11-29-18] in pleading guilty to lying to Congress. Mr. Trump’s associates pursued the project as the Kremlin was escalating its election […]

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11/29/2018

MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The latest criminal charges against Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime fixer, for lying about a Moscow hotel deal raised questions of whether Mr. Cohen created new legal risks for Mr. Trump or his family members, possibly by contradicting what they told investigators about the same project. The answer, […]

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10/16/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday [10-16-18] that his former attorney Michael Cohen was lying when he testified Trump had directed him to break the law, the Associated Press reported. Cohen testified in August that Trump had directed him to commit a crime by arranging payments to silence two women […]

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10/8/2018

MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Stormy Daniels said Monday [10-8-18] her feelings toward Michael Cohen have softened after he admitted to working with President Donald Trump to keep her silent about their alleged affair, saying ‘I guess I forgive him.’ Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, said in an interview with Don Lemon on ‘CNN […]

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10/2/2018

MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump was personally involved in an effort to prevent adult film actress Stormy Daniels from publicly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with him, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told CNN. The President told his then-personal attorney Michael Cohen in a February phone call to seek a […]

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9/20/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former attorney, has spoken with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team several times over the past month, ABC News reported Thursday [9-20-18]. Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis appeared to confirm the ABC report later Thursday when he praised his client for speaking to Mueller…The report said the […]

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