WASHINGTON ¨C Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s former personal lawyer, said on Thursday he paid a firm to manipulate online polling data ¡°at the direction of and for the sole benefit of¡± Trump.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Cohen had paid the data firm RedFinch Solutions to manipulate two public opinion polls in favor of Trump before the 2016 presidential campaign.
¡°As for the @WSJ article on poll rigging,¡± Cohen wrote on Twitter on Thursday, ¡°what I did was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of @realDonaldTrump @POTUS. I truly regret my blind loyalty to a man who doesn¡¯t deserve it.¡±
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