A breathless CNN report from July claimed Michael Cohen had firsthand knowledge that President Trump knew about the infamous Trump Tower meeting. However, Cohen’s lawyer – and former Clinton advisor – Lanny Davis is singing a different tune.
Moreover, Davis unequivocally says that Cohen “does not” have information that the president knew about the meeting beforehand. (The Daily Caller)
“So Michael Cohen does not have information that President Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting with the Russians beforehand or even after?” CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Davis.
“No, he does not,” replied Davis, a longtime Clinton insider who started representing Cohen earlier this summer.
Davis’s bombshell statement severely undercuts a July 27 CNN report that Cohen was willing to tell special counsel Robert Mueller that he was in a meeting when Donald Trump Jr. told his father about an offer to meet with a group of Russians who wanted to provide dirt on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
According to CNN’s anonymous sources, Trump approved the meeting, which took place on June 9, 2016. Democrats seized on the CNN report as evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
The report also implied that Trump and his eldest son deliberately mislead the public about said meeting.
Davis also said in a recent interview that the anti-Trump Steele dossier’s allegations against Cohen are “false,” thereby further undermining its legitimacy.
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