Trump slams Cohen as he implicates president

Washington - Trump accused Cohen of making up "stories in order to get a 'deal'" from federal prosecutors.

Facing a growing threat to his presidency, President Donald Trump lashed out at his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, a day after the onetime "fixer" implicated Trump in a campaign cover-up to buy the silence of women who said they had sexual relationships with him.
Trump on Wednesday accused Cohen of making up "stories in order to get a 'deal'" from federal prosecutors. Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations that the lawyer said he carried out in coordination with Trump.
"If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don't retain the services of Michael Cohen!" Trump tweeted on Wednesday.
In a split screen for the history books, Cohen's admission to the crimes in federal court in New York on Tuesday came at nearly the same moment that Trump's onetime campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was convicted by a jury in Virginia of financial misdeeds. Manafort faces separate charges in September in the District of Columbia that include acting as a foreign agent.
The back-to-back blows resulted from the work of special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russia's attempts to sway voters in the 2016 election.