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2019-03-09 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Cohen's lawyer says Trump team dangled pardon
[DAWN] The attorney for President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, says the president's advisers dangled the possibility of a pardon last year.

Lanny Davis, Cohen's lawyer, said in a written statement on Thursday that his client was "open to the ongoing 'dangling' of a possible pardon by Trump representatives privately and in the media" in the months after the FBI raided Cohen's home, office and hotel room in April 2018.

Davis, who was not Cohen's lawyer at the time, says Cohen "directed his attorney" to explore a possible pardon with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others on Trump's legal team.

The statement appears to contradict Cohen's sworn testimony last week at a House Oversight Committee hearing that he had never asked for, and would not accept, a pardon from Trump.

The Senate intelligence committee is interested in re-interviewing Donald Trump Jr. and other witnesses after President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, spoke to the committee last week.

That's according to a person familiar with the probe who requested anonymity to discuss the confidential investigation. The committee first interviewed Trump Jr. in 2017.

Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican member of the panel, said Thursday on CNN that senators "clearly need to re-interview some witnesses whose accounts (Cohen) contradicts." She did not name the witnesses.

Cohen told a House committee last week that he had briefed Trump Jr. approximately 10 times about a plan to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Trump Jr. told the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2017 he was only "peripherally aware" of the proposal.

Posted by Fred 2019-03-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 And if you can't believe Lanny Davis and Michael Cohen...then you're correct
Posted by Frank G 2019-03-09 05:51||   2019-03-09 05:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Boy did Cohen get played by Clinton proxy Lanny Davis. Anything to keep Hillary out of prison..
Posted by Thons Glinesing3760 2019-03-09 09:59||   2019-03-09 09:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, Cohen is going to learn about "swingin' dicks" soon enough. So dangle is an interesting word choice...
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-03-09 11:40||   2019-03-09 11:40|| Front Page Top

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