Richard Painter said on MSNBC Tuesday that Cohen was acting as a “fixer” and not an attorney when he made payments to women, such as adult-film star Stormy Daniels, to stay quiet about alleged affairs with Trump.

“It certainly wasn’t legal advice that’s being rendered when an attorney pays $130,000 to a porn star to keep her mouth shut,” Painter said. “There’s no legal advice being rendered there at all.”
— Read on thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/383712-ex-bush-ethics-lawyer-theres-no-such-thing-as-fixer-client