Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, once said he would take a "bullet" for the president. 

But instead of shielding his former client, Mr Cohen painted a target on his back on Tuesday and pushed him into the firing line. 

The brash New Yorker’s bombshell admission in court that he paid hush money to two women before the 2016 election at the direction of Mr Trump appears to implicate Mr Trump himself in a crime.

On the same day, a jury in Virginia found former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty of eight financial crimes unrelated to the campaign. While that conviction does not directly implicate Mr Trump, it will bolster prosecutors in the office of special…

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