President Trump kept a low profile ahead of his campaign rally Tuesday, as one of his former associates was convicted of financial crimes and another was entering into a plea deal on offenses that included campaign finance violations involving his presidential bid.

Right as jurors in the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort reached a partial verdict, headlines blared that the president’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen entered into a plea deal with federal prosecutors, potentially affording him a limited jail sentence of three to five years for financial crimes that included campaign finance violations, bank fraud, and tax evasion.