Updated at 11:50 a.m. ET
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s onetime lawyer and fixer, says his former boss knew it was wrong to order hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to two women who say they had affairs with Trump — but he directed Cohen to do it anyway to help his election chances.
Cohen also said in an interview with ABC News that aired Friday that the president’s repeated assertions that Cohen is lying about the payments and other aspects of his work for Trump were false.
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