Michael Cohen hopes "history remembers me as someone who tried to bring country together"

Michael Cohen, the president's former personal lawyer, left the courtroom this week in tears as the judge handed him a three year sentence for criminal behavior. He pleaded guilty to campaign finance violation, tax evasion and lying to Congress.

Cohen hopes his crimes will help bring the country back together, but if it doesn't, he's willing to cut his toenails, because that makes as much sense.

Before he leveled his sentence, U.S. Judge William Pauley said “Cohen pled guilt to a veritable smorgasbord of fraudulent conduct" and “lost his moral compass,” according to a Newsday reporter inside the courtroom, if you can believe that.

Judge Pauley also said that “as a lawyer, Mr. Cohen should have known better.”

Cohen pleaded and begged for leniency and accused President Trump – the man he swore he'd take a bullet for and never walk away before all this happened – of causing him to “follow a path of darkness rather than light” and “cover up his dirty deeds,” according to the Newsday reporter. 

Can I get an 'Amen.'

Prosecutors in the Justice Department’s Southern District of New York charged Cohen with eight felony counts in August, including tax evasion, making false statements to a financial institution, and campaign finance violations. Special counsel Robert Mueller, tasked with investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, tacked on an additional count of lying to Congress last month.

Cohen pleaded guilty to all nine counts adding that he hoped his behavior will inspire Americans to be better Americans and get the country out of the dark and into the light.

Federal prosecutors allege that Cohen violated campaign finance laws by paying off two women who allege to have had affairs with Donald Trump acting “in coordination with and at the direction of” the then-candidate. But that seems to be how Trump rolls.

Trump has argued the payments amount to nothing more than a “simple private transaction,” and do not qualify as campaign finance violations. He does it all the time but said "don't tell Melania." He'll probably come out okay on that charge, I suspect.

Cohen will head off to federal prison in early March. He is not expecting to get a presidential pardon.

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