President Donald Trump isn’t an unindicted co-conspirator in former lawyer Michael Cohen’s crimes “in the formal sense,” former FBI Director James Comey said Sunday.
“I don’t know,” Comey replied when MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace asked whether the president could be considered one during a New York City event hosted by the network.
“Not in the formal sense that he’s been named in an indictment … But if he’s not there, he’s certainly close given the language in the filing that the crimes were committed at his direction.”
Federal prosecutors on Friday said Trump during the 2016 election directed Cohen to make illegal payments to two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump years earlier.
In the Cohen case, special counsel Robert Mueller’s team used the term “Individual One” to refer to Trump as the person allegedly directing Cohen to violate campaign finance laws in paying hush money to the women.
Trump, said Comey, would be in “serious jeopardy of being charged” if he wasn’t the sitting president, “because the government wouldn’t make that sponsoring allegation if they weren’t seriously contemplating going forward with criminal charges.”
“Now where it stands here, I can’t say,” he added.
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