( CNN) Federal attorneys bagged two inundate ogres on Tuesday, and the slime is oozing toward President Trump.

Nobody outside Trump's family is closer to him than Michael Cohen, who affirmed in the Southern District of New York that he made illegal campaign contributions “at the direction” of then-candidate Trump( according to court newspapers, Cohen implicated, perhaps, a second person involved in the campaign ).

Cohen spent more than a decade in Trump's employ as a self-described “fixer” who used tough talk to bully the boss's critics and foes.( He tried this with me while I was writing a book about Trump, so I know how he operated .)

Toobin: Cohen is saying ‘his co-conspirator and/ or his aider and abetter' was the President

Blumenthal: ‘We're in a Watergate moment'