White House: AT&T's Cohen payment shows President Trump can't be bought

The White House pushed back on concerns regarding newly-discovered payments to President Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen from corporations looking to lobby the White House, arguing that the episode proves the President will not cater to “special interests.” 

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that recent revelations prove that  President Trump can't be bought by companies looking to change his mind, pointing to the fact that the Justice Department came out against AT&T's merger with Time Warner. "This further proves the president is not going to be influenced by special interests. This is actually the definition of 'draining the swamp,'" she said, directing other questions to the president's outside counsel. "I think it's pretty clear the Department of Justice opposed the merger, so the president or his administration hasn’t been influenced by any outside special interest. ... He’s going to do what he finds to be in the best interest of Americans across the country,” Huckabee Sanders said.