The same could unfortunately be said for many users, not all of whom support trump.
They can claim that, and investigators would rightly consider it an unlikely alibi, but not something they could definitively rule out offhand.
If Cohen and Trump were smart, they would've talked in code so that they really could claim they talked about knitting if the feds happened to hint at having a recording. But Trump doesn't think that far ahead and is driven by his impulses. He was calling him about the raid, and he very likely used direct undisguised language to do it.
Did he say something that could give the government ammunition against either him or Cohen? Unless we find out that someone made a recording, only Cohen and Trump know. And, to add to that, Trump is a serial liar so you can ask him several times over the span of a few months and see what he defensively skirts around as he bounces from alibi to alibi - but it won't give you an immediate answer.
Does "beyond a reasonable doubt" not apply to alibis?
I'm not an American, I don't know the exact standards of evidence required for every little facet of the criminal justice system. But that's beside my point.
I don't think investigators could just say "you're lying" and treat that as an additional count of obstruction/whatever without any additional supporting evidence to justify it, sure. Trump and Cohen might "get away" with lying about the nature of the call and not get caught or suffer any punishment specifically for lying about the call -- if they are the only ones who know what happened in the call, they have a certain degree of plausible deniability.
But that doesn't mean investigators can't consider that an alibi given by Trump, a known serial liar, may be so unlikely and discontinuous with what investigators do know about Cohen, as a result of the raid, that he may be lying about the call. They're able to draw on the greater investigation's details to help them in trying to reconstruct what happened - depending on what they have, it's possible they could make very strong predictions about the call, or they might be pretty clueless.
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