"He apologized to just about everyone. First to his family: “I know I have let them all down,” he said, choking up for the only time as he read his typed statement from a sheet of paper. And then, to the “people of the United States” for his cooperation in crimes that were intended, he said, to sway the 2016 presidential election for Trump: “You deserve to know the truth,” he told the public, “and lying to you was unjust.”
Officially, the president is “Individual 1” in the legal documents that accompany Cohen’s guilty plea. But Trump was unmasked again and again during the hour-long sentencing that took place inside the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan. Cohen’s attorney, Guy Petrillo, characterized the president, and his animosity toward the dual investigations that brought down his client, as a threatening presence hovering over Cohen’s every decision in the case. “He came forward to offer evidence against the most powerful person in our country,” Petrillo told the court."
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/12/michael-cohen-claims-freedom-trump/578011/
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