Lie December 13, 2018 · Social post · Crime

“I never directed Michael Cohen to break the law. He was a lawyer and he is supposed to know the law. It is called ‘advice of counsel,’ and a lawyer has great liability if a mistake is made. That is why they get paid. Despite that many campaign finance lawyers have strongly...... ....stated that I did nothing wrong with respect to campaign finance laws, if they even apply, because this was not campaign finance.”

Said
December 13, 2018
Where
Twitter (Twitter)
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Crime
Repeated
16 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 7618)

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