White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders' comments come a day after the President Donald Trump’s longtime fixer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance charges alleging he paid hush money at Trump's direction during the 2016 presidential campaign. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo White House: Trump not concerned about what Cohen may tell Mueller

President Donald Trump is not “concerned at all” by what his former lawyer Michael Cohen might tell special counsel Robert Mueller, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Wednesday afternoon.

“I don’t think the president’s concerned at all. He knows that he did nothing wrong and there was no collusion,” Sanders told reporters at the White House press briefing.


Sanders’ comment comes a day after Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance charges alleging he paid hush moneys direction during the 2016 presidential campaign at the direction of a “candidate for federal office.” Cohen admitted Tuesday in court he paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the silence of two women who claim they had affairs with Trump, and that he did so at Trump’s direction.

The Cohen guilty plea is one of the latest developments in Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, and came after Mueller referred the Cohen case to New York prosecutors. Mueller, who is also investigating whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia, nabbed a victory in Alexandria on Tuesday when a jury found former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty on eight tax and bank fraud charges.

Cohen’s guilty plea could implicate Trump in a felony, and is a major change of course for the former fixer who previously said he’d take a bullet for Trump. In April, the FBI raided Cohen’s office, which Trump called “disgraceful.”

