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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I just wish they’d all shut up and go away.
I never want to hear this guy’s name again. The same thing holds true for the whole lot of these Leftist jackasses and traitors.
Cohen has a rotten lawyer that should be disbarred for the way he represented his client.
Just for shits and grins, a “Lanny Davis” showed up as a sponsor of a Socialist Workers Party (SWP) front about 1972 re the abortion movement. As soon as I find it, I’ll post it just for the hell of it.
He got smart and stayed out of the communist Left movements even if he protested VN, Nixon, my grandmother, etc.
However, he belongs to a group of Democrat lawyers who are liars, unethical, politically corrupt, and slightly insane.
Never to be trusted, even with a pet kitten.
Him Avenatti and Cohen should form a law firm known as “Shister, Liar and Crook”. It would be the first time that they ever told the truth, and probably the last.
Hoping that all three get disbarred for unprofessional conduct, contempt of court, lying to everyone, and libel/slander.
apparently my attempt at humor massively failed last night, sorry about that.
Typical liberal: Make wild claims, get it in the news, then back off and let the story die while people repeat the lie.
“Well, that lie didn’t scare the pants off Trump so I can’t double down on it w/o getting me and my POS client in trouble.....hope to do better with the next lie....”
Lanny Davis is doing everything he can to destroy his client to try to get to Trump.
You never saw him do that when he was working for the Clintons, did you? LOL.
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