Michael Cohen was in contact with Trump's team while crafting lies to Congress
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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/419241-cohen-was-in-close-and-regular-contact-with-trump-white-house-staff
President Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was in “close and regular contact” with White House staff and Trump’s legal team while he was crafting misstatements to
Congress, according to a new court filing late Friday night.
Cohen pleaded guilty Tuesday to making misstatements before congressional intelligence committees while testifying about his contacts with Russians during the 2016 presidential
campaign. In the court filing in the Southern District of New York, Cohen’s lawyers wrote that the false statements “sprung regrettably from Michael’s effort, as a loyal ally and then-
champion” to help push forward Trump’s political messaging.
Cohen followed the political messaging that Trump, identified as Client-1 in the documents, his staff and supporters “repeatedly and forcefully broadcast.” The Hill has reached out to
the Trump White House for comments.
In cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, Cohen said he lied about the effort to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, including his plans to travel to Russia,
contacts with Russian officials in connection with the project and how long the property plans were discussed within the Trump Organization, according to court documents.Cohen
reportedly discussed the idea of a Trump Tower Moscow with Russian press secretary Dmitry Peskov, two U.S. law enforcement officials told BuzzFeed on Thursday.
Trump and his spokespeople were trying to portray that contact between Russians and Trump, the campaign or the Trump Organization as having ended before the Iowa caucuses on
Feb. 1, 2016, according to the Cohen’s court filing. He justified making the false statements to Congress on the grounds that the Moscow project did not end up going forward, Cohen’s
lawyers wrote.
Cohen has voluntarily met with Mueller’s team seven times throughout the course of the investigation and will “continue to make himself available” to the office for additional
questioning, the documents state.
His lawyers wrote that he decided to cooperate to “re-point his internal compass true north toward a productive, ethical and thoroughly law abiding life.”
you mean the headlines: "WH dictates to congress what questions they will allow ______ to answer" was actually true?!
its like they did the bare minimalist of an investigation!
So it's witness-tampering, then? Throw that onto the pile of obstruction charges by this White House and the spraytanned buffoon in charge of it. Mueller'll be glad to add to the charges against treasonous cunts who would try and sell out the nation for personal profit.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
And the month is just getting started too! Can’t wait to see the gifts Papa Mueller is putting around the tree.
Makes you wonder how bad it is when all the GOP senators and congressmen say they haven't seen a single piece of evidence to support this behind closed doors. Guess we shall see when 2019 rolls around
Wait I’m a little lost in all of the shit happening lately. What did he sign off on? Does it implicate him as having knowledge or having a hand in this entire shitshow?
The Attorney General has to approve of the Special Counsel doing indictments and things, the filing this article is about is with Cohen's seperate beef with the SDNY but it's related.
Whitiker was very vocal about how he thinks the investigation was a scam, and has stated quite publically that if he were in charge he'd slash the budget to death and refuse to sign off on anything.
So naturally when Trump appointed him over Rosenstein (which is in legal contention) people were worried he'd do exactly what he said he would.
but then now in the position to do that he hasn't done anything of the sort.
There's still time for him to screw everything up unfortunately.
Actually at this point there's probably nothing he could do as mueller seems to have much of his case already made with dozens of sealed indictments. I think his latest series of moves has been to set up a public defense of his report given that the GOP will and has already started spinning against it.
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