Posted on 08/26/2018 7:58:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
An attorney for Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, is backing away from confident assertions he made that Cohen has information to share with investigators that shows Trump knew in 2016 of Russian efforts to undermine Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Lanny Davis, a spokesman and attorney for Cohen, said in an interview this weekend that he is no longer certain about claims he made to reporters on background and on the record in recent weeks about what Cohen knows about Trump’s awareness of the Russian efforts.
Davis did not rule out that his claims were correct but expressed regret that he did not explain that he could not independently corroborate them, saying that he now believes he “should have been more clear.”
Neither Cohen nor his lead defense attorney, Guy Petrillo, responded to requests for comment.
The prospect that Cohen could be a potential witness against the president in the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election has dominated the news, particularly since Cohen pleaded guilty Tuesday to tax evasion, bank fraud and campaign finance crimes.
Davis’s latest comments cast doubt on what Cohen may know, including about a June 2016 meeting in New York’s Trump Tower attended by Trump’s eldest son and a Russian lawyer.
Trump and his allies seized on the erosion of those claims.
“Michaels Cohen’s attorney clarified the record, saying his client does not know if President Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting (out of which came nothing!),” Trump tweeted Saturday. “The answer is that I did NOT know about the meeting. Just another phony story by the Fake News Media!”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Being a Democrat, he pretty much has to back into things. Isn’t that pretty much “the law” now?
It took the WaPo some time to getting around to this story. It has been out for awhile now.
“that he could not independently corroborate them”
If the FBI doesn’t have to then he shouldn’t have to either.
Classic Clintonian. Throw out a big lie, let the media run with it, and then oh so quietly correct it knowing that the general public will only remember the first lie.
My whole life Ive watched this happen.
Lanny Davis, another Rat who should be doing a Rope Dance.
He gave the media and dems what they needed now since the dossier has been debunked, momentum until this, too, becomes debunked all around.
Lanny Davis is a homosexual??!
he was a source of fake news who’d previously “confirmed” it
Cohen completely F’ed himself!! It was all a ruse to keep the Muh Russia scam going. That’s why Hillary asked Davis to be his lawyer! And the GoFundMe page was no doubt set up for the Clintons. Now Cohen is going to hang out to dry and his new media and celebrity friends will bail on him. Enjoy being Bubba’s chew toy, because you ain’t getting a pardon from Trump!!
Even better, go to www.michaelcohentruth.com for a REAL hoot!
He’s a Democrat. That’s their preferred group over the rest of us. That’s why I asked, “Isn’t that required now?”
Yes, I love that work of art. Beautiful...
When the Compost reports on it, it’s official for the Left. Cohen was used simply to squeeze some more life out of Muh Russia and now he’s no longer useful. Man, did this guy get played. He is going to rot in prison when all he had to do was tell Mueller to go to Hell and Trump would have pardoned him.
He should ask John McCain’s widow for all the dossiers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/davis090398.htm?noredirect=on
Lanny Davis, Pro Bono Spinner
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 3, 1998; Page D01
...He knows the question everyone is asking — not just of him, seven months after he left the White House counsel’s office, but of all his former colleagues who defended President Clinton until his story about Monica Lewinsky turned out to be a lie.
“I don’t like what he did,” Davis says in his newly furnished Patton, Boggs & Blow office on M Street. “I don’t like the impact on Hillary, who is my friend. I certainly think it was terribly wrong. I feel very badly for her and for the whole structure of family and friends he has injured here. But I don’t think I feel any worse than he does. I finally talked to him. He’s not a happy camper.”
And what about the impact on Davis, the glib corporate lawyer whose very name has become synonymous with ceaseless White House spin?
“I feel very disappointed in his judgment and his failure to protect the legacy of his presidency,” Davis says. “That’s where my emotion is.”
...Inside the White House, Davis generally urged his colleagues to release documents, help reporters confirm stories and get beyond the bad news. What’s more, he often engaged in preemptive leaks of information damaging to Clinton so the president’s aides could put their own stamp on the revelations and later dismiss them as old news...
...Davis’s main job during his 13-month tenure was responding to charges of improper fund-raising by the Clinton-Gore campaign, and that seemed to be petering out...
...Of course, Davis sometimes spun himself into gray areas, such as insisting that the famous White House coffees were not fund-raisers when their sole purpose was to raise cash. Even Davis didn’t believe that particular line...
Remember when the Clinton team was lying and blaming those leaks on Ken Starr? Rush Limbaugh said at the time it was the Clinton team doing it to minimize the full force of hearing everything at once.
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