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Michael Cohen’s guilty plea remained the biggest substantive blow of the day, because it put campaign-finance violations and hush-money payments directly into the criminal record. Even without a direct charge against Trump, the plea made the president’s old fixer sound like a witness who was describing the campaign from the inside.
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Michael Cohen’s guilty plea remained the biggest substantive blow of the day, because it put campaign-finance violations and hush-money payments directly into the criminal record. Even without a direct charge against Trump, the plea made the president’s old fixer sound like a witness who was describing the campaign from the inside.
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Michael Cohen’s guilty plea remained the biggest substantive blow of the day, because it put campaign-finance violations and hush-money payments directly into the criminal record. Even without a direct charge against Trump, the plea made the president’s old fixer sound like a witness who was describing the campaign from the inside.
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