Trump suggests 'flipping' should be 'illegal'

US President Donald Trump is suggesting that it should be illegal for people facing prosecution to cooperate with the government in exchange for a reduced sentence.

Trump is reacting to the guilty plea entered by his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to a range of charges.

Trump — in an interview with “Fox & Friends” — is accusing Cohen of implicating him to get a better deal with prosecutors. Trump says Cohen “makes a better deal when he uses me.”

Trump claims people who decide to cooperate with the government “make up stories” and “just make up lies.”

Here’s what the president says: “It’s called flipping and it almost ought to be illegal.” He says “it’s not a fair thing.”

— AP