NEW: Former Rep. Chris Collins, who stands before a judge for sentencing today, is the latest of 14 Trump aides, donors and advisers who have been indicted or imprisoned.
blaming then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department for bringing investigations of"two very popular Republican Congressmen" to a"well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms."And Trump has seen some of his donors ensnared in criminal probes.
MORE: Patriots' owner Robert Kraft has assembled a legal dream team to handle his misdemeanor sex solicitation case; can they save him? Trump is by no means the only president who has been associated with convicted criminals. The Watergate burglary, which led to Richard Nixon’s downfall, resulted in a number of Nixon’s associates, including his campaign operative G. Gordon Liddy, being convicted. Bill Clinton pardoned his brother, Roger, who was convicted of cocaine possession in the 1980s.
But supporters of the president say he has been the target of unprecedented scrutiny – a phenomenon epitomized by the Mueller probe.
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