英文早点 | 0830_前私人律师认罪，川普这回危险了？

当地时间21日，他的前竞选团队经理马纳福特当天被法庭判定8项罪名成立，与此同时，特朗普的前律师科恩现身纽约州联邦法院投案自首，并宣称在2016年总统大选中“某位候选人”指示他向两名艳星支付封口费。特朗普立即否认与此相关，他还反击称“这是一场政治迫害”。尽管这两名前亲信被判的罪名与“通俄门”调查无关，但法律风险正对特朗普形成越来越大的威胁。

The ideals which have lighted my way,and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness,beauty and truth.----Einstein

Trump is trying to draw some sort of distinction between paying the hush money out of campaign funds and paying them out of his own pocket. But, either way, it's illegal.

Assuming Trump used his personal money to repay Cohen - and remember both Trump and Cohen have insisted in the past that none of the money came from Trump, which is, of course, not true - then he was making an illegal loan to his campaign.

文本选自 ：CNN（美国有线电视新闻网）

作者 ：Chris Cillizza

原文标题 ：Trump's response to Michael Cohen's plea deal, dissected

原文发布时间 ：23 August 2018

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