Trump 'never spoke' with Michael Cohen about false testimony, Rudy Giuliani says

NY Daily News ^

[springwater13]

President Trump did not speak with Michael Cohen before he testified falsely before Congress about plans to develop a skyscraper in Moscow during the 2016 campaign, Rudy Giuliani said Monday, backing off previous assertions that such talks may have taken place.

The former New York mayor, who serves as Trump’s top lawyer in Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, said he had confirmed the matter with previous members of the President’s legal team, including ex-lead counsel John Dowd.

“The President never spoke with Cohen about the congressional testimony,” Giuliani told the Daily News.

However, Giuliani acknowledged Trump’s legal team conversed with Cohen’s lawyers — and possibly Cohen himself — before he went before the House and Senate intelligence committees in September 2017 and falsely testified that discussions to develop a Trump Tower in Moscow ended in January 2016.

“Anything that happened between the lawyers would have been part of the joint defense agreement,” Giuliani said, claiming all parties involved believed at the time that Cohen’s planned testimony was truthful.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Gee, there’s no way Michael Cohen is telling people what they want to hear after being threatened with jail.

[Andy from Chapel Hill]

I think this whole Buzzfeed thing was a FBI/DOJ leak detection sting operation.

Buzzfeed was played and the leakers were identified.

[Yolanda]

13 angry Democrats on Muller’s team, all Hillary Clinton and DNC fanboys and fangals. Would they pull the old Harry Reid scam where he falsely accused then Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney of not paying taxes? You bet!
It almost seems as if Democratic S.C. Congressman Clyburn is in on the Buzzfeed scheme. He announced on one of the Sunday chat shows that as long as an accusation is prefaced with the phrase “if it’s true” any accusation is ok. By the way, Congressman Clyburn is on Nancy Pelosi’s leadership team.