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trueblue2007

(17,250 posts)
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 02:08 AM Feb 2019

Michael Cohen will testify that Trump knew Roger Stone talked with WikiLeaks about DNC email dump

Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen is prepared to testify that Trump was aware of long-time adviser Roger Stone's efforts to reach out to WikiLeaks in advance of its release of damaging information about Hillary Clinton's campaign, according to a copy of his public testimony submitted to Congress and obtained by CNN.
In the testimony, Cohen will allege that, in 2016, he witnessed Trump taking a phone call from Stone, who was on speakerphone.
"Mr. Stone told Mr. Trump that he had just gotten off the phone with Julian Assange and that Mr. Assange told Mr. Stone that, within a couple of days, there would be a massive dump of emails that would damage Hillary Clinton's campaign," Cohen will say, according to his prepared testimony.
Trump responded, according to Cohen: "Wouldn't that be great."

Cohen's allegations, if true, would amount to the first time anyone with direct knowledge has said that the President had advance knowledge of the WikiLeaks dump of Clinton emails. Cohen also said the President's personal lawyers "reviewed and edited" his 2017 statements when Cohen lied to Congress about the Trump Organization's pursuit of a massive project in Moscow.

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He also provides new details suggesting Trump was heavily involved in the pursuit of the Trump Tower Moscow project in 2016.
"To be clear, Mr. Trump knew of and directed the Trump Tower negotiations throughout the campaign and lied about it," Cohen will tell the committee. "He lied about it because he never expected to win the election. He also lied about it because he stood to make hundreds of millions of dollars on the Moscow real estate project."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/27/politics/michael-cohen-testimony/index.html

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Michael Cohen will testify that Trump knew Roger Stone talked with WikiLeaks about DNC email dump (Original Post) trueblue2007 Feb 2019 OP
One interesting thing: Mueller allowed Cohen to discuss this. manor321 Feb 2019 #1
I love the little cannon-BOOM Gothmog Feb 2019 #2
OF COURSE HE DID! Trump so giddy he had to say "Wikileaks" every other word during campaign EveHammond13 Feb 2019 #3
Wondering what Trump said to Mueller about Wikileaks dump MaryMagdaline Feb 2019 #4
 

manor321

(3,344 posts)
1. One interesting thing: Mueller allowed Cohen to discuss this.
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 02:10 AM
Feb 2019

Was Congress perhaps working with Mueller to delay the Cohen hearings until after Roger Stone's indictment so Cohen could then be free to talk about this?

I can't wait for the press gaggle to pepper Trump with all of these questions.

And Stone can't publicly comment on this!

 

EveHammond13

(2,855 posts)
3. OF COURSE HE DID! Trump so giddy he had to say "Wikileaks" every other word during campaign
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 03:31 AM
Feb 2019

it's obvious he knew. 100% obvious.

MaryMagdaline

(6,859 posts)
4. Wondering what Trump said to Mueller about Wikileaks dump
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 07:57 AM
Feb 2019

Did he say, in writing, that he had no prior knowledge of the e-mail dump?

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