Trump: "Cohen está condenado por muchos delitos no relacionados conmigo"
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, se ha vuelto a distanciar de las acusaciones contra su exabogado, Michael Cohen, condenado ayer a tres años de prisión por "muchos delitos no relacionados conmigo".
A través de su cuenta personal de Twitter, este mandatario ha detallado que "nunca indiqué a Cohen que violara la ley" y, al ser letrado, "se supone que debe conocer la normativa" y tiene "gran responsabilidad en caso de error".
Trump también ha detallado que Cohen "se declaró culpable de dos cargos no criminales" relacionados con la financiación de su campaña electoral de 2016 para "avergonzar al presidente [de EE.UU.]", recibir "una sentencia mucho más reducida" y ayudar a su familia.
I never directed Michael Cohen to break the law. He was a lawyer and he is supposed to know the law. It is called “advice of counsel,” and a lawyer has great liability if a mistake is made. That is why they get paid. Despite that many campaign finance lawyers have strongly......
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 13 de diciembre de 2018
....stated that I did nothing wrong with respect to campaign finance laws, if they even apply, because this was not campaign finance. Cohen was guilty on many charges unrelated to me, but he plead to two campaign charges which were not criminal and of which he probably was not...
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 13 de diciembre de 2018
....guilty even on a civil basis. Those charges were just agreed to by him in order to embarrass the president and get a much reduced prison sentence, which he did-including the fact that his family was temporarily let off the hook. As a lawyer, Michael has great liability to me!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 13 de diciembre de 2018