A former fundraiser for US President Donald Trump pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a charge that he illegally lobbied Trump to drop an investigation into a Malaysian embezzlement scandal.

At a hearing before Washington DC federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Elliott Broidy (above), who held finance posts in Trump's 2016 campaign and on his inaugural committee, pleaded guilty to a felony charge that he conspired to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (Fara)...