Trump tweeted on Monday that the payments were "a simple private transaction," not election-related spending subject to campaign-finance laws.
On Thursday, he said that "many campaign finance lawyers have strongly stated I did nothing wrong with respect to campaign finance laws, if they even apply, because this was not campaign finance."
In addition to life behind bars, the former Trump confidant is also subject to forfeiture of 500,000 U.S. dollars, restitution of 1.4 million dollars and fines totaling 100,000 dollars. He was ordered to surrender on March 6.
"It was my blind loyalty to this man that led me to take a path of darkness instead of light. I felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds," Cohen said.
Contrary to Wednesday's sentencing, Cohen was initially expected to serve four or five years in jail, as prosecutors had recommended "substantial term of imprisonment" for him, pushing back on an earlier argument by Cohen's lawyers that he be exempted of any prison time.
The reason for the exemption is that Cohen has assisted federal prosecutors as well as special counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the ongoing investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
In fact, a shortened jail term is already the result of taking into consideration what Cohen did during the legal process. U.S. District Judge William Pauley said when announcing Cohen's sentencing that his plea to guilty and assistance "does not wipe the slate clean."
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