Angus King: SDNY Cohen Filings ‘Implicates’ Trump in a Felony But Flynn Filings Should Be ‘More Trouble’ to Trump

‘The key phrase to me is directed by individual 1, which everyone knows is President Trump’

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KING: “Well, I think you outlined in your tape there many of the questions that are raised by those filings, and they’re really a separate series of filings, but the Cohen ones are pretty disturbing. The key phrase to me is directed by individual 1, which everyone knows is President Trump. Directed by implicates the president in a felony. Now, the president can have some defenses left. I think we should make it clear, he could claim it wasn’t knowingly or willful, he didn’t understand. It was his own money, he didn’t think it was a violation of campaign finance laws, but it’s still a pretty serious matter. But I’ve got to say, chuck, I think the filing last week that should be most troubling to the White House weren’t the ones made on Friday, but the ones made with regard to general Flynn earlier in the week because, number one, Robert Mueller felt that his cooperation has been of such an extent that he recommended no jail time, a kind of prosecutorial pardon, if you 19 meetings with the special counsel, and a lot of redacted pieces in the filing that was made last week. That’s the one I think that really raises some very difficult questions that go to the heart of the question of whether there were relationships between the Trump campaign, President Trump and the Russian government during the campaign in 2016, because Flynn was, as they say in “Hamilton” in the room where it happens.”

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