WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Donald Trump did nothing wrong the day after his former attorney Michael Cohen said Trump had directed him to make hush money payments to two women with the express purpose of “influencing the election.”
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders tells reporters that the president has “done nothing wrong” and stresses, “There are no charges against him.”
She also calls it “a ridiculous accusation” to suggest the president had lied when he said he didn’t know about the payments at the time they were made.
Cohen on Tuesday pleaded guilty to a number of charges, including campaign finance violations.
Asked whether the president is concerned about what Cohen might tell the special counsel investigating Russia election middling: “I don’t think the president is concerned at all.”
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