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!”
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If knowing about Russian efforts to undermine ones opponent for the presidency was a "crime," why didn't Mueller use Hillary's Russian Dossier as evidence against Hillary rather than Trump?
OMG the ENTIRE MSM has been screaming IMPEACHMENT for days on Cohen information, AND NOW it is ALL BS!!! These bastards are just DISPICABLE!!!!
What a legacy...to be known by the title “Clinton Apologist.”
file FCC complaints against the broadcast fake news channels. should’ve happened to SeeBS during Rathergate.
Let me give you some friendly advice.
When you finally produce the hand-written note from Trump to Cohen, make sure that the "ald Trump" is written in the some color ink as the " Sincerely, Don."
-PJ
He's so slimy, he would slip right through.
never mind. FakeNewsMSM on this went around the world, and not many will bother with the correction.
Guess we are going into a holiday weekend and they could only find two scribes...
I loved Gilda!!!!! Those were the days when SNL was actually REALLY FUNNY!!!
You are obviously not familiar with Lanny Davis.
AND NOW it is ALL BS on a Sunday evening.
I guess it could have been worse the BS could have been released on Friday evening next week the holiday weekend!!! VERY SURPRISED ole Lanny didn’t think of that, he must be slipping!!!!
Fanny Davis has been a Clinton rump swab, forever ...
Oh no. The McCain canonization is a sufficient shield.
Here's a flash girls - the right way to take out a President in a free country - IS TO VOTE HIM OUT OF OFFICE - by coming up with someone THE PEOPLE like better.
Also, you bimbos didn't care when Bill Clinton RAPED WOMEN so you've lost whatever credibility you might have had on the issue. NOTE to MSNBC: Rape is worse than consensual sex with a slut - AND - most people think blackmail is a bad thing... these sluts got over a hundred grand and came back for more... that's kinda tacky right? Even by liberal 'no standards' standards... right?
If Cohen had anything of value, he would have gotten an immunity deal. He didn’t.
One day, when it snows in DC in Mid-June, the Wash. Post will truthfully write that Lanny Davis is a little shit shister Clintonista lawyer, and that he has no integrity, ethics, or standards.
I’ve got my snow boots next to the door, where they will remain to the end of time re the above.
#2. re Davis and “he pretty much has to back into things”.
Well, I hope he backs into a running airplane propeller. Now that would be a real “dis-asster”.
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