Along with being the president's longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen is the national deputy finance director of the Republican National Committee — a fact that CNN's Jake Tapper drove home Friday when interviewing RNC chair Ronna Romney McDaniel.
"Minutes ago, you accepted the resignation of Elliot Broidy, the deputy finance chair of the RNC, after the Wall Street Journal broke the news that a different deputy finance director of the RNC, Michael Cohen, also president Trump's personal lawyer, negotiated a $1.6 million payout to a Playboy model that Broidy impregnated while married," Tapper told McDaniel.
"Cohen, we learned from the Justice Department this afternoon, is also under criminal investigation on top of the fact that former finance chair Steve Wynn is being accused of sexual harassment and assault," he continued. "My first question for you is: what the heck is going on at the RNC?"
McDaniel responded by saying that "obviously, these developments are new to me."
Watch below, via CNN:
