press interview and said, “I feel badly about a lot of them, because I think a lot 1037 of it is very unfair.” 5. The President’s Conduct After Cohen Began Cooperating with the Government On July 2, 2018, ABC News reported based on an “exclusive” interview with Cohen that Cohen “strongly signaled his willingness to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller and federal prosecutors in the Southern District 1038 of New York—even if that puts President Trump in jeopardy.” That week, the media reported that Cohen had added an attorney to his legal team who 1039 previously had worked as a legal advisor to President Bill Clinton. Beginning on July 20, 2018, the media reported on the existence of a recording Cohen had made of a conversation he had with candidate Trump about a payment made to a second woman who said she had had an affair with 1040 Trump. On July 21, 2018, the President responded: “Inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer’s office (early in the morning)—almost unheard of. Even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client—totally unheard of & perhaps illegal. The good news is that your favorite President did 1041 nothing wrong!” On July 27, 2018, after the media reported that Cohen was willing to inform investigators that Donald Trump Jr. told his father about the 1042 June 9, 2016 meeting to get “dirt” on Hillary Clinton, the President tweeted: “[S]o the Fake News doesn’t waste my time with dumb questions, NO, I did NOT know of the meeting with my son, Don jr. Sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam (Taxi cabs maybe?). He even retained Bill and Crooked Hillary’s lawyer. Gee, I 1043 wonder if they helped him make the choice!” On August 21, 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty in the Southern District of New York to eight felony charges, including two counts of campaign-finance violations based on the payments he had made during the final weeks of the 1044 campaign to women who said they had affairs with the President. During the plea hearing, Cohen stated that he had worked “at the direction of” the 1045 candidate in making those payments. The next day, the President contrasted Cohen’s cooperation with Manafort’s refusal to cooperate, tweeting, “I feel very