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Michael Cohen, the longtime personal lawyer and fixer to Donald Trump, pleaded guilty to breaking campaign-finance laws with payments to cover up Trump’s alleged affairs, and said he did so at the candidate’s direction. In a separate case, Trump’s former campaign chair, Paul Manafort, was of fraud and financial crimes in to the first trial

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