Sources have told CNN that Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen is prepared to tell Robert Mueller that Trump himself knew and approved of a…
Sources have told CNN that Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen is prepared to tell Robert Mueller that Trump himself knew and approved of a meeting with Russians offering damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
In what would be, if proven accurate, the clearest evidence yet of collusion between Donald Trump and agents of the Russian government in the 2016 presidential election, Trump’s former lawyer is prepared to tell Special Counsel Robert Mueller that Trump knew about a June 9,2016 meeting in Trump Tower between a group of Russians including, as Inquisitr has reported, a Kremlin-linked lawyer, and Trump’s own son Donald Trump Jr.
In fact, Trump not only knew about the meeting — which was set up because Trump Jr. was told by a Russia-linked acquaintance that the Russians possessed damaging information on Democrat Hillary Clinton — he personally approved it — according to a report by CNN late in Thursday based on what CNN called “sources with knowledge.”
Cohen’s attorney, while declining to deny the report, did deny that anyone on Cohen’s legal team leaked the details of what Cohen plans to say about the Trump Tower meeting, according to NBC News correspondent Geoff Bennett, writing on Twitter .
“I cannot comment,” Cohen lawyer Lanny Davis said. “And I have to wonder why the Trump people would put that out. It was not from us.”
Trump lawyer, and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani called Cohen a “pathological liar,” as The Hill reported, adding that Trump “didn’t know about it,” referring to the meeting.
NBC News quickly confirmed the information that Cohen plans to tell Mueller that Trump knew of the Trump Tower meeting, according to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, on her Twitter feed.
