The president of the United States used a shady New York fixer to help on his most sensitive personal matters and hired a shady Washington fixer to briefly run his presidential campaign. What could go wrong? An awful lot, and on the same day.

Michael Cohen pled guilty Tuesday afternoon to a host of charges, including campaign-finance offenses that he said he committed at the direction of Donald Trump, at nearly the same time a jury in Northern Virginia found Paul Manafort guilty of eight counts of tax and bank fraud.

The Cohen campaign-finance violations involved the payments to a porn performer and a Playboy playmate that Trump allegedly had affairs with. Cohen’s statement in court was, on the one hand, not surprising since Trump’s prior denials that he knew about the payoffs were never credible, and on the other hand, shocking because it makes the president allegedly party to a crime, albeit an offense that is rarely prosecuted and is difficult to prosecute.