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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. Loyalty has never been Trump's strong suite.
In April, the FBI conducted a raid on Cohen's office and his apartment in Manhattan, carrying out a search warrant that had been approved by a federal judge.
Cohen, once a staunch Trump loyalist, came under the microscope as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible coordination between Trump's presidential campaign and Russians looking to influence the 2016 election.
After agreeing to flip on Trump and cooperate with prosecutors, Cohen was sentenced last week to three years in prison for charges of tax evasion and fraud, lying to Congress and campaign-finance violations that Cohen says were hush-money payments made at Trump's direction to women who alleged having affairs with him.
Trump repeatedly has lashed out at Cohen, calling him weak and suggesting that he lied to investigators to receive a more lenient sentence. Cohen, in turn, has said that he is finished lying for the president and no longer feels compelled to cover up Trump's dirty deeds.
[SUB][/SUB]Cohen, once a staunch Trump loyalist, came under the microscope as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible coordination between Trump's presidential campaign and Russians looking to influence the 2016 election.
After agreeing to flip on Trump and cooperate with prosecutors, Cohen was sentenced last week to three years in prison for charges of tax evasion and fraud, lying to Congress and campaign-finance violations that Cohen says were hush-money payments made at Trump's direction to women who alleged having affairs with him.
Trump repeatedly has lashed out at Cohen, calling him weak and suggesting that he lied to investigators to receive a more lenient sentence. Cohen, in turn, has said that he is finished lying for the president and no longer feels compelled to cover up Trump's dirty deeds.