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Trump says ex-lawyer's campaign rule violations 'not a crime'

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday asserted that his former lawyer Michael Cohen's campaign finance violations were "not a crime." "Michael Cohen plead (sic) guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime," Trump tweeted.

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Published August 22,2018
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the campaign finance violations his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to in federal court on Tuesday were "not a crime," even though prosecutors and Cohen agreed they were.

Trump made the claim in a post on Twitter without offering any evidence. In a separate tweet, he also said Cohen made up stories "in order to get a 'deal.'"