Conservative commentator Mark Levin blasted President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen for agreeing to a plea deal with prosecutors.
"The general counsel for the Clinton mob family, Lanny Davis, he had his client plead to two counts of criminality that don't exist," Levin said Tuesday night on Fox News' "Hannity." "These campaign finance violations that is all over TV, they are saying implicates the president of the United States directly.
"First, let's back up. It is a guilty plea," he continued. "It is a plea bargain between a prosecutor and a criminal. A criminal who doesn't want to spend the rest of his life in prison. That is not precedent. That applies only to that specific case. Nobody cites plea bargains for precedent. That's No. 1.
"No. 2, just because a prosecutor says that somebody violated a campaign law doesn't make it so. He is not the judge. He is not the jury. We didn't adjudicate anything. It never went to court. That's No. 2."
Cohen said in Manhattan federal court that he paid women hush money during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign "in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office," to keep them from going public about alleged affairs with Trump. Adding that this was "for the principal purpose of influencing the election."
"A campaign expenditure under our federal campaign laws is an expenditure solely for campaign activity," Levin said on "Hannity" after Cohen appeared in court. "A candidate who spends his own money or even corporate money for an event that occurred not as a result of the campaign, it is not a campaign expenditure."
He added, "There was no violation of the federal campaign laws. Lanny Davis blew it."
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