Timeline: From ‘nothing to see here’ to Cohen’s guilty pleas
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s longtime fixer, Michael Cohen, once said he’d take a bullet for his boss, but on Tuesday he pleaded guilty to eight felonies and described payoffs to women at Trump’s direction before the 2016 election.
The development marked the pivot point in which Cohen went from ally for years to a potential threat to Trump. Under the agreement, Cohen, 51, could get four to five years in prison at his Dec. 12 sentencing. His account appears to implicate Trump in a crime, though whether — or when — a president can be prosecuted is in dispute.
Key moments in how it all went down:
2016