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    Trump besieged on 2 legal fronts

    by Chris Megerian and David Willman, Los Angeles Times Aug 23, 2018 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - After 19 tumultuous months in office, President Donald Trump is being squeezed by legal assaults on two fronts, each of which could imperil his White House tenure.

    The politically charged question of how those cases intersect lies with Michael Cohen, who was Trump's longtime personal lawyer and confidant in New York - until he became a sworn enemy.

    After Cohen pleaded guilty to eight federal charges and directly implicated Trump in campaign finance law violations, his lawyer raised the stakes Wednesday by claiming that Cohen could tell prosecutors about Trump's knowledge of illegal Russian hacking of Democratic Party computers during the 2016 campaign.

    Cohen knows "whether Donald Trump ahead of time knew about the hacking of emails, which is a computer crime that was the subject of the indictment of the 12

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