Adam Schiff: If Michael Cohen is going to prison, why shouldn’t Trump?

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Rep. Adam Schiff, the incoming chair of the House Intelligence Committee, thinks President Trump should potentially be behind bars since his former lawyer is heading to prison over crimes he said Trump directed him to commit.

Trump’s former fixer, Michael Cohen, was sentenced to three years in prison for tax fraud and bank crimes, including violating campaign finance laws for paying two women during the 2016 election in exchange for their silence about alleged affairs with Trump.

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