{"id":33462,"date":"2018-08-22T12:51:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T19:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33462"},"modified":"2018-08-22T12:51:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T19:51:39","slug":"at-the-direction-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/22\/at-the-direction-of\/","title":{"rendered":"At the direction of"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a bad day for Putin’s Puppet, Fuehrer of the Republican Reich.  Not only was his Campaign Manager, Paul Manafart, convicted on eight counts, but also, his fixer, Michael Cohen pled that he interfered with the election by bribing Trump’s affairs, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal to buy their silence.  He made those illegal bribes "In coordination with, and at the direction of a candidate for federal office.  Would you care to guess who that candidate was?<\/font><\/p>\n

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U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen testified on Tuesday that Trump had directed him to commit a crime by arranging payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election to silence two women who said they had affairs with Trump…<\/p>\n

…Cohen\u2019s accusation increases political pressure for Trump ahead of November\u2019s congressional elections where Democrats are trying to regain control of the House of Representatives and Senate.<\/p>\n

Cohen told Judge William Pauley III that \u201cin coordination with, and at the direction of, a candidate for federal office<\/strong>\u201d he arranged payments to two women for their silence \u201cfor the principal purpose of influencing the election<\/strong>.\u201d… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Lawrence O’Donnell<\/a> covered the story.<\/font><\/p>\n