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Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent who set up Orbis Business Intelligence and compiled a dossier on President Donald Trump, pictured in London on March 7, 2017. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)

The criminal wrongdoing of President Donald Trump’s close associates dominated public attention this week, as his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges and Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort Jr., was found guilty on eight criminal counts.