According to the wisdom of donjohn. "Flipping is the real crime. Not campaign violations". Isn't that profound?

Interesting how the Fake News is running with this story.....leaving out the first part of the answer in their quotes.

They say Trump says "flipping should be illegal" without the qualifier.

Here is what President Trump said in full:
"“[Cohen] makes a better deal when he uses me, like everybody else,” Trump said. “And one of the reasons I respect Paul Manafort so much is he went through that trial—you know they make up stories. People make up stories. This whole thing about flipping, they call it, I know all about flipping.”

“For 30, 40 years I’ve been watching flippers. Everything’s wonderful and then they get 10 years in jail and they—they flip on whoever the next highest one is, or as high as you can go.”

“It almost ought to be outlawed. It’s not fair. Because if somebody’s going to give—spend five years like Michael Cohen, or 10 years, or 15 years in jail because of a taxi cab industry, because he defrauded some bank—the last two were tiny ones,” Trump explained. “You know, campaign violations are considered not a big deal, frankly. But if somebody defrauded a bank and he’s going to get 10 years in jail or 20 years in jail, but if you can say something bad about Donald Trump and you’ll go down to two or three years, which is the deal he made.”“It almost ought to be outlawed. It’s not fair. Because if somebody’s going to give—spend five years like Michael Cohen, or 10 years, or 15 years in jail because of a taxi cab industry, because he defrauded some bank—the last two were tiny ones,” Trump explained. “You know, campaign violations are considered not a big deal, frankly. But if somebody defrauded a bank and he’s going to get 10 years in jail or 20 years in jail, but if you can say something bad about Donald Trump and you’ll go down to two or three years, which is the deal he made.”

“you get 10 years in jail, but if you say bad things about somebody in other words, make up stories if you don’t know. Make up. They just make up lies. I’ve seen it many times.”

“They make up things and now they go from 10 years to they’re a national hero. They have a statue erected in their honor. It’s not a fair thing, but that’s why [Cohen] did it,” Trump said.

So as you can see President Trump is talking about defendants who are lying to get a better sentence. 

I actually watched a movie (Snitch) recently with Dwayne Johnson in it about this exact thing. But with his son as a kid who agreed to recieve a drug package. And got busted and they demanded that he give them another drug person. The kid did not know anyone and refused to lie and frame another person so he went to prison. The Dad (Johnson) gets involved in trying to give the DEA another person so his kid would get a lighter sentence.  I don't want to spoil it for anyone, so will not say more. (You can get what I have said from the trailer) It is loosely based on a true story.