In an op-ed analyzing some of the recent and more important revelations from Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s ongoing collusion investigation, a former federal prosecutor\u2026<\/b>
\nIn an op-ed analyzing some of the recent and more important revelations from Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s ongoing collusion investigation, a former federal prosecutor wrote that Donald Trump\u2019s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, might have provided enough information to Mueller\u2019s team in order to force the president out of office at some point in the future.
Writing for USA Today, lawyer Peter Zeidenberg, who had most notably served as deputy special counsel for the prosecution of former George W. Bush administration official Scooter Libby, discussed on Sunday the \u201cominous\u201d findings from the Mueller investigation that he believes could spell doom for Trump, his family, and his presidency. While he mentioned how the sentencing memo from the Southern District of New York indicated how Cohen \u201cacted in coordination and at the direction of\u201d Trump when organizing hush money payments to the women who allegedly had affairs with the president, Zeidenberg added that this was \u201chardly the worst news\u201d for Trump in the light of the probe\u2019s most recent findings.
According to Zeidenberg, there are other findings from the Mueller probe that could be far more \u201cthreatening\u201d to Trump and his family, starting with Cohen\u2019s admission that he lied to Congress about the timing of the so-called \u201cMoscow Project\u2019s\u201d termination. While Cohen had previously told Congress that talks of building a Trump Tower in the Russian capital broke down around January 2016, Mueller\u2019s filing on Cohen stated otherwise, suggesting that the project had been discussed with Trump \u201cwell into\u201d his presidential campaign in 2016.
\u201cThus, Mueller makes it clear that Trump had to know that Cohen\u2019s testimony to Congress was a lie. We will soon learn whether Trump counseled Cohen to lie, which, like the campaign finance violation, would make Trump guilty as well.\u201d
Zeidenberg added that anyone who had knowledge of the Moscow Project and had vetted Cohen\u2019s original statement to Congress, including the eldest president\u2019s son, Donald Trump Jr., might be facing \u201cserious\u201d criminal charges as the special counsel investigation continues.
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\u201cThat goes a long way in explaining why Trump has never criticized [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and why the lifting of Russian sanctions, something Putin desperately sought, was such a high priority for Trump,\u201d Zeidenberg wrote.
Furthermore, Zeidenberg wrote that the Mueller probe revealed how the information Cohen provided regarding his contact with certain White House officials since last year was \u201crelevant and useful.\u201d He explained that this means the information Cohen offered might have been \u201ccredible\u201d enough to prove that the aforementioned officials, who have yet to be named, were involved in criminal activities.<\/p>\n