Trump claims innocence while Cohen admits hush‑money direction; remarks on Puerto Rico response

crimes.","type":"text"},{"identifier":" anf-body- 22","inlineTextStyles": [{"range"™:{"length":246,"start":0},"textsStyle":" anf-ts- I"}, {"range™: {"length":246,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default- body", "role": "body", "text": "a€eNo, Ia4€™m not, because ITd4€™m an honest guy,a€ Mr. Trump said. 4€eAnd that stuff is unrelated to me. And that was Michael did that stuff. And Michael I mean you know, you know I have many, many lawyers. I have very big law firms I have that do my work.a€","type":"text"}, {"bannerType": "any", "identifier":" anf- banner advertisement-4", "layout": "“ComponentLayout— 4","role":"banner advertisement", "type":"banner advertisement"}, {"identifier":" anf- body-23","inlineTextStyles": [{"range"™:{"length":247,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts- i"}, {"range"™: {"length":247,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-— body", "role": "body", "text": "While the president said it was a4€eunrelated to me,ad€ in fact, Mr. Cohen acknowledged in court that Mr. Trump directed him to make payments to two women during the 2016 campaign to keep them silent about affairs they said they had with the candidate.","type™:"text"}, {"identifier":" anf-body- 24","inlineTextStyles": [{"range"™:{"length":250,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts- i"}, {"range"™:{"length":250,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default- body", "role":"body", "text":"Mr. Rivera asked if Mr. Trump knew of anything that Mr. Cohen could tell the authorities that could be a problem for the president. d4€el dona€™t know anything because, I1d4€™ll be honest, I do everything straight,d4€ Mr. Trump said. A€eI do everything straight.4€", "type"™:"text"}, {("additions": [{"URL":"https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018 /09/13/us/politics/ap-us-tropical-weather-trump-the-latest.html?partner=applenewséad keywords=APPLEMOBILE&region=written throughé&asset_id=100000006123059", "range": {"length" 2:21, "start ™:198},"type™:"link"}, {"URL":"https://apple.news/AYf£Z22n911QimFWfimle7ZqaA", "ra nge":{"length":43,"start":264},"type™:"link"}],"identifier":" anf-body- 25","inlineTextStyles": [{"range™: {"length":336,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts- i"}, {"range"™: {"length":336,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default- body", "role":"body", "text":"Mr. Trump again defended his handling of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and again assailed Carmen YulAn Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, calling her a a€ehorror show.a4€ The mayor recently called Mr. Trump 4€edelusional, paranoid and unhinged from any sense of realityda€ for denying the officially accepted death count of 3,900 from the hurricane.","“type":"text"}, {"identifier":" anf-body- 26","inlineTextStyles": [{"range"™:{"length":311,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts- i"}, {"range"™:{"length":311,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-— body", "role": "body", "text": "a€eYou have the mayor of San Juan whod€™s incompetent, 4€ Mr. Trump said. d€eShe should never be there. Shed€™s just doesnd€™t know what shedé™s doing, shead€™s totally incompetent person. You have as you know locally they did a very, very poor job. The electric was broken before the storms that got hit by two storms not one.a€","type":"text"}, {"bannerType":"any","identifier":" anf- banner advertisement-5", "layout": "ComponentLayout— 4","role":"banner advertisement", "type":"banner advertisement"}, {"identifier"™:" anf- body-27", "inlineTextStyles": [{"range"™: {"length":390,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts- i"}, {"range"™: {"length":390,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-— body", "role":"body","text":"He said that critics blamed him for a situation that was already dysfunctional before the storm. 4€eIt was a total mess, it was corrupt 4€" couldnae™t be worse,d4€ he said. d4€eThe storms hit and they said, 4€~Oh letde™s blame Trump for the electric, letd€™s have Trump, leta€™s have Trump fix the electric plant, which takes a long time to rebuild it, which is a big deal. 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