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The Justice Department’s targeting of Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, has long been debated, as the so-called “fixer” maintains that all of his actions were in service to someone else who was not sent to federal prison for the crimes. Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann walked through the things in Trump’s past that will impact his sentencing. “It will be quite the sort of listing of all of the factors that make this crime and make this defendant serious,” he continued. Among those things is the “precedent.” That includes what kind of sentencing has been done in other cases…

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