George Conway To Trump: Prosecutors Have A 'Pretty Good Case'
- 5 years ago
George Conway took another jab at President Trump on Monday.
Attorney George Conway, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway's husband, took a moment on Monday morning to challenge President Trump's campaign finance assertions. "No, the criminal campaign-finance violations were found by professional line prosecutors in a Republican-controlled United States Department of Justice," George Conway said via Twitter. "It looks like a pretty good case. Kudos to them." He was responding to Trump's earlier tweet, which read, in part, "The Dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution which it was not (but even if it was, it is only a CIVIL CASE, like Obama's - but it was done correctly by a lawyer and there would not even be a fine. Lawyer's liability if he made a mistake, not me). Cohen just trying to get his sentence reduced. WITCH HUNT!" Trump's tweets came in the wake of court filings submitted Friday in the case against Michael Cohen, Trump's former attorney.
According to a New York Times report, prosecutors "emphasized that Mr. Cohen had implicated the president in payments to two women during the campaign to conceal affairs that they said they had with Mr. Trump."
"'Cohen himself has now admitted, with respect to both payments, he acted in coordination with and at the direction of Individual-1,' the prosecutors wrote. 'Individual-1' is how Mr. Trump is referred to in the document," the piece further noted.
The White House downplayed any implication, saying: "The government's filings in Mr. Cohen's case tell us nothing of value that wasn't already known. Mr. Cohen has repeatedly lied and as the prosecution has pointed out to the court, Mr. Cohen is no hero."
Attorney George Conway, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway's husband, took a moment on Monday morning to challenge President Trump's campaign finance assertions. "No, the criminal campaign-finance violations were found by professional line prosecutors in a Republican-controlled United States Department of Justice," George Conway said via Twitter. "It looks like a pretty good case. Kudos to them." He was responding to Trump's earlier tweet, which read, in part, "The Dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution which it was not (but even if it was, it is only a CIVIL CASE, like Obama's - but it was done correctly by a lawyer and there would not even be a fine. Lawyer's liability if he made a mistake, not me). Cohen just trying to get his sentence reduced. WITCH HUNT!" Trump's tweets came in the wake of court filings submitted Friday in the case against Michael Cohen, Trump's former attorney.
According to a New York Times report, prosecutors "emphasized that Mr. Cohen had implicated the president in payments to two women during the campaign to conceal affairs that they said they had with Mr. Trump."
"'Cohen himself has now admitted, with respect to both payments, he acted in coordination with and at the direction of Individual-1,' the prosecutors wrote. 'Individual-1' is how Mr. Trump is referred to in the document," the piece further noted.
The White House downplayed any implication, saying: "The government's filings in Mr. Cohen's case tell us nothing of value that wasn't already known. Mr. Cohen has repeatedly lied and as the prosecution has pointed out to the court, Mr. Cohen is no hero."