US President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, told ABC News on Friday that Trump directed him to arrange hush-money payments with two women because then-candidate Trump “was very concerned about how this would affect the election” if their allegations of affairs became public.
Cohen’s interview with ABC News marks his first comments since he was sentenced to three years in prison for crimes related to the 2016 presidential campaign earlier this week.
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