Looking for a good lawyer? Don't bother calling Michael Cohen.
That's President Donald Trump's advice a day after his former personal lawyer and fixer implicated him in a scheme to illegally silence two women alleging affairs with the erstwhile reality TV star.
"If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don't retain the services of Michael Cohen!" Trump tweeted Wednesday morning.
Cohen pleaded guilty to tax evasion, bank fraud and campaign finance violations on Tuesday, claiming in court that he made hush money payments to a pair of women at Trump's direction.
The payments, Cohen said, were made to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.
Trump argued that there was nothing illegal about the money paid to a porn star and a Playboy model to keep them quiet during the campaign.
"Michael Cohen plead guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime," he tweeted. "President Obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily settled!"
Obama's 2008 campaign was fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for campaign reporting violations.
Trump's not-so-subtle dig at his one-time "fixer" came hours after Cohen's lawyer said his client would not accept a pardon from the President and is prepared to share other potentially incriminating information with special counsel Robert Mueller.
"Not only is he not hoping for it, he would not accept a pardon," Lanny Davis, Cohen's attorney, said on NBC's "Today."
Trump also applauded his disgraced former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, who was convicted Tuesday of tax and bank fraud charges, for refusing to "break."
"I feel very badly for Paul Manafort and his wonderful family," Trump tweeted. " 'Justice' took a 12 year old tax case, among other things, applied tremendous pressure on him and, unlike Michael Cohen, he refused to 'break' _ make up stories in order to get a 'deal.' Such respect for a brave man!"
