Michael Cohen Urged to Stick to Russia Story
Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen was told that if he stuck to his account of Trump’s relationship to Moscow, the president “loves you,” according to a bombshell document from the Robert Mueller investigation obtained by Buzzfeed.
The glimpse into influencing the convicted attorney who worked for years for Trump was in 500 pages of summaries of FBI interviews with investigation witnesses that Buzzfeed obtained through five separate Freedom of Information Act requests. The records were released Saturday by the Department of Justice.
The memos also reveal that one-time Trump campaign manager and now convicted felon Paul Manafort continued to communicate with campaign staff until just days before the election even though he had been fired months earlier after he came under a cloud because of his links to Russian interests.
After Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner forwarded a Manafort email to campaign CEO Steve Bannon, he told Kushner: “We need to avoid this guy like the plague. Paul is [a] nice guy, but we can’t let word get out he is advising us,” Bannon said in a 2016 email just three days before the presidential election.
According to another document, Trump’s deputy campaign chairman and Manafort business partner, Rick Gates, told investigators that Manafort pushed a debunked conspiracy theory in 2016 that Ukraine — not Russia — was responsible for the hack of Democratic National Committee emails before the election. Gates also said that Trump’s team was “very happy” about the hacked emails.
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