President Trump on Wednesday denied that campaign funds were ever used to arrange hush money payments to two women who claimed to have had affairs with him prior to the 2016 presidential election, a day after his personal attorney Michael Cohen told a federal court he made both payments at the direction of then-candidate Trump.
Meanwhile, in the end, according to reports it was one juror who saved Paul Manafort from being convicted on all 18 counts he faced, instead of just the eight counts related to his finances that he ended up with.
Andrew McCarthy is a former Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney & Contributing Editor at National Review. He joined Dan Proft and Kristen McQueary with reaction to Michael Cohen’s plea deal and the verdicts in the Paul Manafort trial: