Cybersecurity

Trump’s Gravest Threat Yet Rose From Manhattan, Not Mueller

  • Federal prosecutor Khuzami led team that won Cohen guilty plea
  • Case doesn’t fit the president’s narrative bashing Mueller
Deputy U.S. Attorney Robert Khuzami speaks after President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen’s guilty pleaSource: Bloomberg)
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Donald Trump regularly tweets his outrage at “heavily conflicted Bob Mueller” and the “witch hunt” led by the special counsel’s “Angry Democrat Thugs.”

But what may be the gravest legal threat yet to Trump’s presidency, Tuesday’s conviction of his former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, was the work of a prosecutor hundreds of miles from the special counsel’s office.