Well, committing campaign finance violations for one. Also, Cohen said trump directed him to lie. If trump says, "Don't lie to congress, but tell this lie." The first part just shows the corrupt intent, not that he legitimately did not want him to lie. Because if he didn't want him to lie, he would have told him not to lie about the dates of the trump moscow deal or at least come out publicly after he testified to correct the record.

Cohen said that Trump did not tell him to lie.