Exclusive: Michael Cohen told Congress he doesn't know if Trump knew about Russia meeting

[DonViejo]

Source: Axios



Jonathan Swan2 hours ago

Michael Cohen told lawmakers last year, in sworn testimony, that he didn't know whether then-candidate Donald Trump had foreknowledge of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians, three sources with knowledge of Cohen's testimony tell Axios.

The big picture: And Cohen still doesn't know whether Trump knew about the infamous meeting, according to Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis. "Nothing has changed," he told Axios. News reports last month said Cohen was willing to assert to special counsel Robert Mueller that Trump did know about the meeting in advance.

Why it matters: Questions about Cohen's testimony about the meeting may earn him a return trip to Capitol Hill.

What's new: This information about what Cohen told Congress about Trump — reported here for the first time — colors in the gaps of a joint statement Tuesday by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr and Vice Chair Sen. Mark Warner that got buried under the Cohen-Manafort news avalanche.



Read more: https://www.axios.com/michael-cohen-didnt-know-trump-tower-meeting-534240d0-915e-4d44-9d37-ab247e067ee0.html

[beachbum bob]

1. every one lied last year and why its catching up now as we get into trials

[yallerdawg]

2. It gets very confusing.

Listening to attorneys hem and haw and fudge about what their clients have already divulged on the record and in public makes you want to start piling them up at the bottom of the ocean.

[Iliyah]

3. Everyone in this present administration have lied openly.

Sessions lied. Carson lied. Appointed judges lied. Confirmation judges lied. All the administration lied. GOP congress lied. That person in the WH lied.

Cohen lied to protect shithole. He probably has proof that shithole knew.

GOPers are traitors.

[brush]

5. Cohen's attorney Lanny Davis said yesterday he has info that trump knew

Cohen has openly flipped so I'll go with what Davis said.

And come on, think about it. Or course trump knew. I don't think for one minute Jr. didn't key him informed before, during and after the trump Tower meeting.

[Mc Mike]

4. Richard Burr perjury trapped him. Unfair.

[forgotmylogin]

6. Get in line, Congress, if you want to indict him for perjury.

While you're waiting, there are a few other targets you can practice your indictment paperwork on.

[uponit7771]

7. Semantics, call might have known about Trump's knowledge of emails before

... the meeting but not that I'm eating itself with happen to or when and where