Character still counts: Trump lies down with dogs, gets up with fleas

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A perverse logic underlies both the charges against Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and the developing defense of President Trump.

According to the prosecution’s reasoning, Cohen’s six-figure hush-money payments to Trump’s mistresses would have been legal, had he made them directly from the coffers of the Trump presidential campaign.

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