bank fraud and hush money payments at the direction of individual-1. individual-1 is the president. you will see nonsense on social media saying we don t know that s true. that s true. the president has kept quiet about the sentencing today so far. to be clear, cohen got three years for illegal hush money paid to two women, the money was trump s money at trump s direction. it was paid to influence an election. and those payments that trump first denied knowing about then denied directing acknowledges and says they weren t really crimes. and remember, those payments were related to affairs the president supposedly had with the porn star and former playmate soon after his wife was home with a newborn baby. michael cohen had powerful words in court before hearing his fate. i m paraphrasing. i take full responsibility for the one that is relate to me and the ones that relate to the president of united states. this is one of the most
criminal activity, accusing him as a candidate for office of directing his former personal lawyer and fixer, michael cohen, to pay hush money, to buy the silence of two women who claim to have had affairs with trump. prosecutors writing in the cohen document this. as cohen himself has now admitted with respect to both payments, he acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual-1. you know who prosecutors say is individual-1? they identify him as donald trump. the president lashing out at the accusations this morning in a tweet, misspelling by the way the word smoking. here s what he writes. he says, democrats can t find a smocking gun tying the trump campaign to russia after james comey s testimony. no smocking gun. no collusion. that s because there was no collusion. so now the dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution,
as cohen himself has now admitted with respect to both payments, he acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual-1. you know who prosecutors say is individual-1? they identify him as donald trump. the president lashing out at the accusations this morning in a tweet, misspelling by the way the word smoking. here s what he writes. he says, democrats can t find a smocking gun tying the trump campaign to russia after james comey s testimony. no smocking gun. no collusion. that s because there was no collusion. so now the dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution, which it was not. lawyer s liability if he made a mistake, not me. cohen just trying to get his sentence reduced. all right. there s a lot in there, and we ll talk about it. so let s break down some of what he is claiming there, okay? he s admitting payments were
trump s former campaign manager and former personal attorney have court dates this week as the focus could shift to the president and his businesses. we want to look at what we learned from the filings on friday. the payments to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal, friday sentencing memo u.s. attorneys in manhattan told the court, quote, cohen acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual-1. remember, individual-1 is the person that ran a campaign and was eventually elected president. that would be donald trump. and those payments which prosecutors say trump directed, they are felonies and this morning the president addressed the memo saying, quote, now the dems go to a simple private transaction wrongly call it a
as well as alleged in the case of company hen confessed and alleged with manafort and obstruction by people tied to the president of the united states. individual 1, donald trump, identified for the first time for directing a campaign-related felony, a big day indeed. thank you for watching our coverage. you can always check out the beat.