President Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen said the then-candidate knew it was wrong to make hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal in the weeks leading up to the election. In an exclusive interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on “Good Morning America,” Cohen said Trump “was very concerned” about how Daniels’ and McDougal’s allegations of sexual encounters with him “would affect the election.”“I knew what I was doing was wrong,” Cohen told ABC. He implicated the president in the hush-money payments by saying they were made at Trump's direction. “They put that on to embarrass me.”But Cohen denied attempts to embarrass the president. Under no circumstances do I want to embarrass the president,” Cohen told Stephanopoulos.

Source: Fox News December 14, 2018 13:18 UTC