Trump's former lawyer paid to rig polls before the 2016 presidential election

Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen admitted Thursday that he paid to rig online polls to the benefit of the billionaire at the start of the 2016 presidential campaign, ensuring he made it "on demand" for the future. American president. Michael Cohen, sentenced in December to three years in prison for notably buying the silence of Donald Trump's alleged mistresses in violation of campaign finance laws, reacted with a tweet to a Wall Street Journal article revealing In early 2015, he had paid several thousand dollars to a collaborator of Evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr., a staunch supporter of the New York magnate.

"I did it at the request of Donald Trump". John Gauger, head of a small company and head of the Evangelist-run Liberty University in Virginia, made the money to manipulate online polls to improve the visibility of Donald Trump, who was to declare his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidential election only in June 2015, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) . "As for the WSJ article on polling rigging, which I did, I did it on demand and for the sole benefit of Donald Trump, I really regret my blind loyalty to a man who does not not worth it, "tweeted Thursday Michael Cohen, implicitly acknowledging the payment.

As for the @WSJ article on poll rigging, what I was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of @ realDonaldTrump @ POTUS. I truly regret my blind loyalty to a man who does not deserve it.

Witness to the charge. Before he begins serving his prison sentence in March, the former lawyer, who has become one of the most dangerous prosecution witnesses for the president at the heart of several criminal investigations, is due to testify in the US Congress on February 7 in a much-awaited commission by the new Democratic majority in the House of Representatives. After working for ten years for the Trump Organization - the company that oversees Donald Trump's business - Michael Cohen has been heavily instructing the US president since he pleaded guilty last August to tax and banking fraud and violation of laws. election financing. He said he paid the two alleged mistresses "at the request" of the US president.

The Wall Street Journal revelations were visibly known to investigators, and should not be worthy of further legal action. In their indictment filed in August in court, they evoked a $ 50,000 bill for "technology services" billed by Michael Cohen to the Trump Organization, which would actually be the amount paid to Jerry Falwell's collaborator, according to the daily.