Donald Trump. Spencer Platt/Getty Images President Donald Trump has echoed a popular right-wing talking point in recent days as his latest defense from the plea deal to which his former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen agreed earlier this week. The campaign-finance crimes Cohen pleaded guilty to? Well, they aren’t actually crimes, Trump and others say. It’s an argument that campaign-finance experts say is “nonsense.” In cutting a deal with federal prosecutors, Cohen pleaded guilty on Tuesday to five counts of tax evasion, one count of making a false statement to a financial institution, and two counts related to campaign-finance violations. Cohen said under oath that Trump directed him to violate campaign-finance laws just before the 2016 presidential election to boost his candidacy. The latter two charges were in connection to payments to the former Playboy model Karen McDougal and the porn actress Stormy Daniels to silence their allegations of affairs with Trump. Cohen said that at Trump’s direction, he moved to keep both former Playboy model Karen McDougal and porn star Stormy Daniels from publicly disclosing damaging information that would hurt Trump’s campaign. He said under oath that the payments were for the purpose of benefiting Trump’s candidacy. “Directing” Cohen to commit such a crime would make Trump a co-conspirator, legal experts say. Prosecutors wrote that they could back up Cohen’s admissions through evidence obtained from the FBI’s April raids on Cohen’s home
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