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There Are Some Serious Holes in Trump’s Defense of Michael Cohen’s Crimes

PAYDIRT

The president doesn’t seem to understand the laws that were broken. Here’s a helpful explanation.

Lachlan Markay

Reporter

Updated Dec. 10, 2018 11:33AM ET / Published Aug. 23, 2018 11:39AM ET 
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This story originally appeared in The Daily Beast newsletter, Pay Dirt. Sign up for that newsletter: HERE.

Given events this week (did something happen this week?), we felt a special issue of PAY DIRT was in order. Today, we’re devoting the entire newsletter to unwrapping and analyzing what is unquestionably the biggest campaign-finance story of the Trump era: the criminal hush-money payments made by Michael Cohen.  

We’ll resume our regularly scheduled programming in next week’s edition.

Lachlan Markay

Reporter

@lachlanLachlan.Markay@thedailybeast.com

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