Q&A: What happens now that President Trump has been accused in court of helping commit a crime?
by Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times
Aug 22, 2018
4 minutes
President Donald Trump's future is in peril like never before - and it doesn't seem to have anything to do with Russia.
On Tuesday, Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to breaking federal campaign finance law by paying hush money to two women who said they'd had affairs with Trump. Cohen failed to report the payments as de facto political contributions in support of Trump's campaign.
The allegations that Trump had extramarital affairs weren't the news. The bombshell came when Cohen, after taking a plea deal from prosecutors, testified under oath that he broke the law "at
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