“The president has done nothing wrong,” Ms. Sanders said on Wednesday during a White House news briefing. There is no collusion.”“The Manafort case doesn’t have anything to do with the president, didn’t have anything to do with his campaign and doesn’t have anything to do with the White House,” she said. “It’s a game changer,” Mr. Schumer, of New York, said in a tweet about Mr. Cohen’s implication of Mr. Trump in his campaign finance crimes. Mr. Cohen admitted on Tuesday that Mr. Trump had a role in payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump. In the plea agreement, Mr. Trump is not mentioned by name, but referred to as “Individual-1.”

Source: New York Times August 22, 2018 14:11 UTC