Federal prosecutors are blowing holes through all of Trump's defenses in the Michael Cohen case

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President Donald Trump finds himself facing mounting legal and political trouble in the face of his former lawyer's admission that he committed campaign finance violations that may have impacted the 2016 election at Trump's direction.

Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for his crimes, and the nature of the offenses is putting more pressure on Democratic lawmakers, who will control the House in January, to explore impeachment.

The timing of Cohen's actions and Trump's alleged involvement, said one Department of Justice veteran, "show a pattern of purposeful concealment with the sole intent of hiding the truth from the electorate a month before the election."

Another legal scholar said that while he doesn't believe these crimes themselves warrant impeachment proceedings, "six months from now if there have been nine more indictments, three more bombshell revelations, and a Mueller report, that could look very different."

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former longtime lawyer, was sentenced to three years in prison in the Southern District of New York on Wednesday, after pleading guilty to tax evasion, bank fraud, and campaign-finance violations earlier this year.

The same day, federal prosecutors announced that they had reached a non-prosecution agreement with American Media Inc., the parent company of the National Enquirer, which spent 150,000 to purchase the rights to, but not publish, the account of model Karen McDougal, who alleged to have had a 10-month affair with Trump. See the rest of the story at Business InsiderNOW WATCH: Anthony Scaramucci claims Trump isn't a nationalist: 'He likes saying that because it irks these intellectual elitists'See Also:Republicans shrug off Cohen implicating Trump in crimes as Democrats shout that no one is above the lawPeople are dragging Michael Cohen for a 2015 tweet about Hillary Clinton after he was sentenced to 3 years in prisonTrump has been implicated in several federal crimes, but here's why experts say he hasn't faced legal consequences

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